September 2010
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“If I had a goal it was to cover the whole network, from terminus to terminus, an...”
– Tony Judt: In Love with Trains in The New York Review of Books.
(I can’t read the whole article, but I love that quote, and anyway, this’ll make a good bookmark for when I am a subscriber.)
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“It’s right and proper that we commemorate the valour and bravery as well...”
– Ian Kershaw, responding to the question “Do Germans invoke their own Blitz spirit?”, in the BBC News article Did the Blitz really unify Britain?
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Walking in Amsterdam and Copenhagen
I’ve just read a long post about the cycling mindset in New York City by Felix Salmon, thanks to Phiil Gyford and Jason Kottke. It’s worth a read, and I think the thesis is worth considering. There’s an almost throwaway line towards the beginning:
In other cities, especially in places like Copenhagen or Utrecht, bicycles are ubiquitous and everybody knows how to behave on and...
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“I find it unsurprising that the paper concludes that the tube map plays a large...”
– Karen M Martin commenting on Mind The Gap: The ‘Tube Map’ as London’s User Interface on Mr Watson
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“London above ground is a terrifically complex and chaotic entity with few...”
– Janet Vertesi in Mind The Gap: The ‘Tube Map’ as London’s User Interface (PDF). The whole thing is well worth a read. (Hat tip: the Human Transit blog.)
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“For those of us who have grown up in the reassuring embrace of grid-patterned...”
– Alex Hutchinson in “Global Impositioning Systems”, in The Walrus.
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“At that Whitechapel Gallery evening, everyone there over 80 could vividly recall...”
– Lisa Jardine Do our memories get better or worse with age?
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“There are two schools of thought as to why the Germans love board games. The...”
– Martin Wallace of Warfrog, quoted by Tim Harford in his article Why we still love board games.
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“Crucially, both services specialise in transience. Both services started — and...”
– Wibbly-wobbly socially-networky stuff by Tumbled Logic, on Facebook and Twitter. Quoted so I can come back to this later. (Open question: does Facebook actually have an archive? If you know a fragment identifier URI from, say, three years ago, is it retrievable? I know it is on Twitter.) 