December 2011
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“Box-office tracking shows that the bright spot in 2011 was the performance of...”
– Roger Ebert: I’ll tell you why movie revenue is dropping…
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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“Samoa has crossed the international dateline before. In 1892, its then king was...”
– James Meikle: Samoa skips a Friday and goes to the future side of dateline, in the Guardian. (American Samoa is staying at UTC-11, while Samoa is about to change to UTC+13. DST will be UTC+14.)
Dec 28th
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“I think people need to remember that this is not Lego insisting that girls will...”
– impeus: Lego for girls: some history.
Dec 27th
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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On Parliamentary Camera Antics
iamdanw: “As Hoyer railed against them for failing to help working Americans, footage from C-SPAN went silent, then cut away. Moments later, C-SPAN took to the Internet to explain that it wasn’t their doing, but someone working for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).” Boehner’s office cuts off C-SPAN cameras as GOP takes verbal beating | The Raw Story - I’m not sure I fully understand the...
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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“At a “processing centre” in El Paso, where the fingerprints of those caught...”
– The Economist: Immigration- Crying Wolf, from the 19th November issue this year. The combination of massive U.S. border enforcement manpower and a reduced incentive to enter illegally mean the number of crossings is far below its peak of ten years ago.
Dec 21st
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“Rep. Brian P. Bilbray (R-Calif.) has said the drones are so popular that a...”
– Washington Post: More Predator drones fly U.S. - Mexico Border (via)
Dec 21st
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“The internet is seemingly outraged by this move. And to me, that outrage reads...”
– Andrea Phillips, Cut Lego Friends A Break (via). Another take on the Lego Friends announcement, and well worth a read (as are the comments).
Dec 19th
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“I don’t think there’s anything that wrong with LEGO doing it, so much as there...”
– evalilith, replying to my Lego post. I don’t assume girls don’t like Lego; I’m sure there are plenty (perhaps even a majority) who love it, or would given the chance to play. (I have a nasty feeling that as the older brother I hogged the bricks when I played with my sister as a...
Dec 19th
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In Defence Of: Lego Friends (and Creator)
Last week, the internet sat up and took notice of Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover story about the launch of Lego Friends, its new “for girls” line. There was much wailing of gnashing of teeth on Twitter, with a common and much-retweeted line being “Lego is launching a product line for girls. Someone should tell them that they already have one; its called Lego.” Well,...
Dec 19th
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Dec 16th
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“The interior has leather upholstery, clear windows and even details such as a...”
– Gywn Topham, in the Guardian: Boris Johnson’s Routemaster makes debut on London’s streets.
Dec 16th
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“The previously shunned third-party app platform is really the only way to...”
– M. Wunsch: Griping about New Twitter in more than 140 characters  
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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“Over the decades, airliners have been built with increasingly automated...”
– Jeff Wise: What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 at Popular Mechanics.
Dec 9th
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“South Korea’s move from a traditional address system to a new utilitarian one...”
– Min Li Chan: Signs of the Times: Assigning New Streets to an Entire Nation at polis.
Dec 9th
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“Consider the recent installation of a completely virtual store by Korean...”
– Jan Chipchase: Seoul on Display: How Global Screen Culture Will Affect Us in The Atlantic
Dec 9th
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“Since 1911, democractic government by a republic has gone from being an...”
– Charlie Stross, in his USENIX 2011 Keynote: Network Security in the Medium Term, 2061-2561. I’ve been thinking about this point for a while, and Stross puts it in a usefully succinct form.
Dec 9th
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“While I love (and happily paid for) Pinboard, I also like the Delicious model...”
– Anil Dash, Getting the News at News.me.
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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“To prepare myself for the subway, I started a crash diet, a military fitness...”
– Bruce Davidson, from a New York Times Review of Books excerpt of the introduction to his book Subway. (Previously.)
Dec 6th
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“Color in the subway was different. I found that the strobe light reflecting off...”
– Bruce Davidson, from a New York Times Review of Books excerpt of the introduction to his book Subway. (Previously.)
Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 2nd
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