March 2010
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Mar 31st
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Mar 31st
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“In just four months London will glitter with the twinkling dynamo lights of...”
– Boris Johnson, quoted in a TfL press release: London’s Cycle Hire scheme to go live on 30 July (via minority report) 
Mar 31st
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Mar 31st
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“Sixteenth-century maps of Africa were misleading in all kinds of ways, but they...”
– Larissa MacFarquhar, in How Paul Krugman found politics  in The New Yorker
Mar 31st
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Why I Don't Use Packrati.us
(If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s a tool for automatically posting links on Twitter to delicious.) It links your feeds It uses via: to indicate service posting when I use it to attribute Twitter is private, delicious is broadcast Twitter is for nonsense, delicious is serious I could get around those if it posted private then let me share; it doesn’t I...
Mar 30th
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Mar 29th
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Changing Clocks
Today Europe changed its clocks for daylight saving time, two weeks after the US did. I’m not going to take part in the twice-a-year ritual of suggesting that the UK should move a further hour ahead, or the counter-complaints that changing clocks is silly. Instead, I’m going to praise the way Europeans change their clocks, and criticise the way Americans do. The core of the question...
Mar 28th
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Mar 27th
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“The Westway has everything you expect in great architecture, experienced at...”
– Rowan Moore: Westway is the best way, from the Evening Standard in 2000.
Mar 27th
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Mar 27th
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“The rush to online mapping is causing some problems. Studies by the British...”
– John McKinney, in Paper Maps Not Ready to Fold Yet in Miller-McCune Online Magazine (via straup) This seems to be another example of digital manifestations losing serendipity…
Mar 26th
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“For people who think that paywalls or the iPad are the things that will be the...”
– Chris Thorpe: Newspapers as serendipity bundles and chatroulette for news
Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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GMail, Fitt's Law, Engineers
Tom Insam: Coding Horror: The Opposite of Fitts’ Law Every few days I accidentally click Report Spam when I really meant to click Archive. Now, to Google’s credit, they do offer a simple, obvious undo path for these accidental clicks. But I can’t help wondering why it is, exactly, that these two buttons with such radically different functionality just have to be right next to...
Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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Mar 24th
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