November 2009
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Most people clearly don't use RAW
zimpenfish:
Or use their cameras. At all.
Since most people have less than 10 GB of photos, chances are you can now save all your memories online for a year for the cost of a triple mocha.
via googleblog.blogspot.com
10GB is a week’s worth with a 450D and RAW+JPG.
He’s not wrong. Here are the sizes of my SLR archives.
123G Photos/EOS 350D/ 168G Photos/EOS 450D/
Heck, even...
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“All I know is that we went from concept to supposed moon landing in 9 years. 40...”
– A comment by MichellDatsun on An Astronaut Explains How We’ll Fall In Love With Space Again.
There’s actually quite a good parallel in exploration history. In the winter of 1911/1912, Amundsen and Scott raced to the South Pole. Amundsen got there first, got back, and Scott died and...
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“Google can ship gaffer tape and destroy business models.”
– Tom Insam, describing the way that Google’s turn-by-turn navigation product puts together parts of their existing infrastructure (Maps, voice recognition, Street View, route planning) and yet can threaten existing players.
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OpenOffice.org Mouse seems real
Yesterday saw the announcement of, and incredulous reaction to, the OpenOffice.org mouse, specifically designed for users of that app.
Many people doubt it’s real, especially as the images of it are renderings, but along with the protestations on the blog, there is other circumstantial proof that, even if it doesn’t end up as a shipping product, there seems to be an actual...
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“if you trace at night the Barbican walkways all the way past the Museum of...”
– Owen Hatherley, in Neon Lights, Shimmering, on the night-time vistas from the London Wall Highwalk.
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More on NY Subway LCD Maps
The always-informative Martin Deutsch pointed out that the LCD strip maps are standard on the new R160B subway stock. It turns out they’ve been entering service since 2007, as covered in the New York Times City Room blog, after a 2005 mockup.
Of course, this being America (land of the PATRIOT act, etc) they have a suspiciously apposite acronym: FIND, Flexible Information and Notice Display....
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New York LED Subway signage. This is amazing but if it was introduced in London, someone would probably just scrawl a cock on it. (via Big Spaceship)
I believe (but can’t find a reference on the Internet; I must have read it in a book) that the Design Research Unit experimented with backlit strip maps for the Victoria line stock in the 1960s, but had to abandon it,...
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Foursquare vs Informatics
This week, Foursquare (“Check in. Find your friends. Unlock your city.”) launched in another fifteen European cities, following London last month. Unfortunately, even in that short time, I’ve stopped playing.
As I mentioned in my post on noticings, Foursquare (and the vaguely related game/service, Gowalla) are “focussed on right there, right then”. They’re...
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Enviro 400s
headlessness just posted to Twitter about the Enviro 400s, which are one of the newer types of double decker bus in London. As a result, I thought I’d rescue this old Flickr comment from obscurity (with a couple of edits).
Enviro 400 E17 at Goose Green on Route 37 (via Matthew Black)
There’s lots of little things about them I can’t get on with, though. There’s the...
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People on Flickr, gender and politics
It’s now a couple of weeks since Flickr launched their People in Photos feature, which allows users to add people to photos. Of course, you’ve always been able to add unstructured metadata to do this, but now it’s both easier (there’s a trademark slick UI) and structured (the person’s photos are linked to their account and visible in their profile).
Unlike Facebook...
