August 2009
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“One New Change has been a particularly sorry project, because it involved the...”
– Jonathan Glancey: The Carbuncle Charles row is a gift to concrete mixers (previously)
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“Twitter feels like conversation, ephemeral, written on water, designed to fade...”
– russell davies: written in water, written on paper (via ruminant)
It took me three years to realise that ephemerality on Twitter was generally regarded as a feature.
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“The scientists said that [the women] were better suited than men to go into...”
– Jess McCabe in a mini-review of She Should Have Gone to the Moon for The F-Word. The comments mention a BBC documentary, Right Stuff, Wrong Sex, available at the BBC Archive site.
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What I Did On My Holidays: Galleries
I’ve taken a week off work, and so I had free reign to spend a day wandering around London, taking in art galleries. I managed to visit over a dozen yesterday, and so I thought it was worth recording what I saw, and what I thought of them.
Hayward Gallery - Walking In My Mind ★★★★☆ / Deceitful Moon ★★☆☆☆
The only paid show I saw all day, I was pretty impressed with Walking in my Mind....
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“Cracks – literal and figurative – are appearing in Poundbury, the heir to the...”
– Steven Morris and Robert Booth in a report in the Guardian: Cracks appearing in Prince Charles’s dream village in Poundbury (via)
In other words, it turns out the problems with housing are to do with cheapness and people, not modern architecture. I’m sure Charles will learn from this...
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“Generally speaking, Glasgow’s multi-storey blocks are solidly and economically...”
– Miles Glendinning in Red Road - Architecture in Detail.
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Tumblr Staff: Introducing Tag Channels →
Whenever I have a tag field, I use it, and I try to be consistent. So Tumblr finally having some sort of global support for tagging is nice. Because I was away today, I first noticed it when looking at other people’s posts on my dashboard (although this example is one of my own):
My first thought was “why the fuck are they using a hash in front of the tag? This isn’t bloody...
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Charles Windsor vs Jean Nouvel
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Prince of Wales tried to topple architect over St Paul’s
This story from yesterday’s Guardian hits two of my points of interest. First, there’s yet more of the heir to the throne’s meddling in urban planning. As the article notes, and the longer commentary piece makes clear, he’s done it before in that part of the city:
In 1990, he waged a successful...
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“Many of Apple’s products are ridiculed by tech geeks when they’re announced, but...”
– Marco Arment, following up Neven Mrgan, on people’s disdain for new Apple product.
The thing I note here is that the initial revision of the iPod was somewhat rubbish. It was the third generation, which had USB - and, probably more importantly, Windows - support that it became a mass-market...
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“Ironies and politics pile up in Agnes Denes’s 1982 work Wheatfield - A...”
– Liz Else, in the New Scientist review of Radical Nature at the Barbican (previously).
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