October 2009
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Oct 28th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
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Why Marco's "crazy idea" really is
marco: What if Apple entered a massive iPhone partnership with Sprint, possibly by purchasing a significant slice of it? Sprint has a great U.S. data network and desperately needs hot devices that can bring an influx of new customers. Sprint isn’t worth much and could really use some cash. Er, CSprint/Nextel’s network is CDMA. Apple don’t make CDMA phones. (Thankfully. Unlike...
Oct 25th
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WatchWatch
areminder: Time lapse video of the Sydney Harbour Bridge being turned into a picnic ground earlier today. This is good.
Oct 25th
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Oct 25th
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Oct 23rd
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First air-con Tube train arrives
BBC News: The Tube’s first air-conditioned train has arrived at a depot in north-west London ahead of its introduction next year. By 2011, 58 air-conditioned trains will have replaced the existing rolling stock on the Metropolitan line.
Oct 21st
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On noticings
I’ve been posting photos to Flickr for about five years now. In all that time, the biggest change to the way I post photos has come about in the past month. I’d thought that getting an iPhone would change things. After all, it’s the first time I’ve had a camera phone that actually came with an internet connection that didn’t carry the threat of horrific monthly...
Oct 18th
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Oct 18th
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“The Turbine Hall often feels like an indoor playground. I was thinking about how...”
–  Miroslaw Balka describing his installation at the Turbine Hall, How It Is, in the Times (as noted by Chris Heathcote).
Oct 12th
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“The beautifully named Operation Moondrop attempted to keep roads clear by...”
– Tony Travers, in the Guardian’s obituary of Lord Plummer of St Marylebone, the Conservative leader of the GLC in the 1960s in 1970s. He was also, as Martin notes, a keen proponent of the “motorway box” around Central London that was, in retrospect, luckily never built.
Oct 12th
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Oct 8th
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Oct 8th
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Oct 8th
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Oct 6th
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“[Cameron] is going to scrap all the political impartiality rules covering...”
– Johann Hari: If we care about the BBC, we must fight to defend it (via Dan W)
Oct 6th
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Rename files while they're open
minimalmac: finermac: I was re-naming a Pages file in Finder when I realised I had it open. “Damnnit,” I thought, it wont let me do that… but I committed the change anyway, and what did I find? Not only could I change the file name, but Pages had updated the name of the file that was open to it’s new name. This is more than a little bit amazing and, if my memory is serving me correctly, the...
Oct 5th
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Oct 4th
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“Ground staff are now brushing the wings of the dead flying ants off the wicket....”
– FLYING ANTS STOP PLAY! - Live text - England v Australia (via boncey)
Oct 2nd
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