October 2009
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“Maurice Short from Brighton is “very annoyed” because he has lost...”
– Complaints over Freeview retune on BBC News.
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Decluttering
For the London Design Festival, Pentagram commissioned 20 designers to “produce an effective poster, celebrating design and the city, in only two colours”. Bibloteque did this by taking the Tube map and removing all but the black and red.
I’ve taken the same method and done something similar with the recently decluttered tube map, just because I thought it would be fairly...
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“my main complaint is that there’s too much walking. We started off by the...”
– Ben Terrett, reviewing The Hidden Park iPhone game.
I hadn’t really thought about it much, but this just shows how much I walk. It was also brought home to me when my parents were in London and we went from the RFH, via Trafalgar Square, to Leicester Square tube, which for me is a short-cut,...
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Still Wireless
A week or so ago Tumblr launched their new Wire feature, which was more like Radar (which old-time (ie six month old) users might remember) than the Popular pages that it replaced. I wrote that I didn’t like it.
Since writing that, I’ve occasionally glanced at the page, but compared to the two or three times a day (at least) that I used to look at it, and the now-gone popular/upcoming...
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“The New York Times recently asked the public for suggestions of things to ban...”
– Hadley Freeman in the Guardian’s Comment is Free on what the US should ban.
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“Earth is a very large place, and no matter where you are located, most of the...”
– Russ Magee, on light-speed lag, in an email to the Django developers group (via)
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“I start with Plato’s critique of writing where he says that if we depend...”
– Dennis Baron, author of A Better Pencil, quoted in an interview with Salon: Is the Internet melting our brains?
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“21mm is more interesting than 21mp.”
– Matt of 1PT4 (via objectsinspaceandtime)
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