May 2010
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“I’m almost 30 and have a fear of clowns, no idea why… But I’m...”
– Sharon from London, quoted on a BBC News Magazine story, Why are clowns scary?
I shouldn’t laugh, but maybe it’d be better if Sharon found somewhere else to live. (indirectly: via, via, via)
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“Mobile video calling is an awful, expensive feature that nobody ever uses, but...”
– Chris Clarke gets it right.
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“So, the BBC should never have run with the story since it was sensationalist...”
– John Graham-Cumming: Inside the RFID ‘virus’ that ‘infected a man’ (via iamdanw).
I don’t know if anyone else has noted that Dr Gasson is a colleague of, and co-author of papers with, Kevin Warwick. For those of you a bit younger than I am, Professor Warwick got an awful lot of publicity...
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“In Finland it is possible to alter the boundaries of shame with alcohol. Someone...”
– Jaana Mirjam Mustavuori, in Finns and the culture of shame in Helsingin Sanomat’s International Edition (via).
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“Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive and about 1 percent of...”
– Bill Bryson, in A Short History of Nearly Everything (via mappeal).
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“Clocks from the old London Stock Exchange on Threadneedle Street are on show at...”
– Richard Vines, in his London Food Buzz column for Bloomberg. (Ta Chris.)
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“One of the library’s maps is a really interesting rendering of London that...”
– Peter Barber, head of map collections at the British Library, quoted in Maps - the new rock’n’roll in the Telegraph.
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“ex-KLF rock star Bill Drummond […] describes OS maps as “the most...”
– Mike Parker, in Mad about maps, in the Telegraph (promoting the British Library’s Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art exhibition).
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