September 2009
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“Parts of southeast England, especially parts of Essex, Kent and Sussex, look set...”
– Metcheck.com, making themselves unpopular with people in London.
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Interesting Neighbours
Yesterday was Interesting, in the best sense of the word. I’m not going to post about the talks or upload photos to Flickr because other people are doing that, more quickly and with more skill than I could.
No, I’m going to talk about the sign in the lobby. This isn’t quite as odd as it may seem, since it has turned up on Flickr a fair bit.
The Postal Mechanisation...
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“Why do Star Trek captains have to say the log date themselves, instead of the...”
– Kevin Marks, in a comment on John Scalzi’s Guide to Epic SciFi Design FAILs - Star Trek Edition.
Yes, it’s a terrible pun, but it seemed worth recording.
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Continuous...
These riffs on Linda Stone’s phrase have all been posted to Twitter by people I follow. Since some of them are private, these are presented without attribution.
Continuous Partial Precipitation
Continuous Renal Attrition
Continuous Anal Retention
Continuous Partial Mention
Continuous Complete Distraction
Continuous Partial Irritation
Continuous Partial Tension
Continuous Partial...
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WatchPossibly the nicest introduction to a machine tagging namespace I’ve ever seen; this is lovely.
It also reminds me I need to work out how to convert ra/dec to alt/az for London, but never mind.
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“Music is healing. The best example of that is Michael Jackson, the late great....”
– Speech Debelle, in an interview for Metro: ‘I’m going to win the Mercury Music Prize’ (via)
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Thoughts On Short Location References
Yesterday, I posted Tom Taylor’s pithy comment:
Postcodes are short URLs for space
Tristan Ferne replied on Twitter:
in Japan the phone number is code for physical location and contact link
I’d already started pondering the nation-specific nature of such short identifiers for place. The UK is actually fairly well blessed in this respect: as well as postcodes, there are OS grid...
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“Postcodes are short URLs for space.”
– Tom Taylor, responding to this photo.
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