June 2009
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“Didn’t Pizza Hut get rebranded as Pasta Hut last year? Or was that an UK only...”
– iamdanw on Pizza Hut’s possible rebranding to “The Hut” (via Lee, marco) Yes, this was just a UK thing, and more to the point, it was pretty much a naked publicity stunt. Entirely unsurprisingly, a poll after a few months (on Facebook, if I’m remembering correctly) resulted in the name...
Jun 19th
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Jun 19th
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London's High Line
Kottke on Nine Reasons The High Line Sucks: He missed James Kunstler’s assertion that the whole thing should have remained a railroad. In the early years of this decade, I always wanted to try and walk along the disused railway line from Dalston towards Broad Street. The old bridges dominate the eastern end of what was the the Shoreditch one-way triangle, and the arches form a line of...
Jun 19th
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Facebook vs Flickr
A crude rule of thumb: Facebook is for photos of people. Flickr is for photography.
Jun 17th
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Jun 17th
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Jun 17th
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“There is a recommendation for mobile operators to provide mobile Internet access...”
– nevali in Tumbled Logic’s dissection of the Digital Britain Report: Chapter 3a. Funnily enough this bit was what was picked up on by thelondonpaper. I’ve thought for a while that providing data, not voice, might be the way to go, but somehow I doubt it’ll happen network-wide by...
Jun 16th
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“The very fact that Twitter itself is half-baked, coupled with its designers’...”
– Jonathan Zittrain: Could Iran Shut Down Twitter? This reminds me of something tangential I’ve been meaning to say for a while. I’ve more experience writing apps that work with Flickr, and while I’ve had some people using apps that are hosted on external sites, I always had the...
Jun 16th
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Jun 16th
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Jun 16th
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Jun 16th
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Jun 16th
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Jun 16th
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Jun 16th
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WatchWatch
headlessness: Tam - LJ Kruzer Video on Vimeo. Minimal. Nice.
Jun 16th
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Jun 16th
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“2 megabit Universal Service Obligation will remain unchanged from the draft. No...”
– nevali writing in Tumbled Logic about the likely shape of the Digital Britain report. The report won’t mention upload speed either, which I expect will probably end up being, at most, 256kbps, although it may be as little as 128. That’s not enough to run a home MP3 stream from, say, and...
Jun 14th
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Jun 14th
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Uniqlo calendar. Nice. Cheeky, and very slow to load, but nice.
Jun 13th
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Jun 12th
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