March 2011
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“Chef Yotam Ottolenghi, who I’ve never heard of, is redefining vegetarianism....”
– vegansaurus!: Redefining Vegetarianism: Oh NO he didn’t! (via kkr !)
He retracted that later, but to be honest, I’m more annoyed about this:
his new restaurant, Nopi (he’s even re-defined London’s Soho; Nopi is an acronym for the Northern Piccadilly quarter where he’s opened)
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“When captured and held e.g. by the tail, [hagfish] secrete the microfibrous...”
– Hagfish at Wikipedia. Isn’t nature wonderful?
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Bridges: A Guide (3/3)
Verrazano Narrows ≠ Manhattan ≠ Brooklyn:
Photographs by edenpictures, wallyg, and 1hr photo. (Additional thanks to buzz for notifiying me of my (rookie) error. I shall be visiting NYC forthwith to renew my Infrastructure Obsessive badge for the city.)
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“In short, if Color is used by a statistically significant percentage of folks,...”
– John Batelle, arguing Why Color Matters: Augmented Reality And Nuanced Social Graphs May Finally Come of Age.
I know that for the hip young kids, Flickr might as well not exist, but it’s had Places pages for a while. They let you get recent photos from, say, New York.
Now, there’s...
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Dogs From My Contacts
I wonder if I can get four in a row at some point?
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“Before it transferred to a supply from the New River Company of Islington, the...”
– The Pump of Death at Spitalfields Life (via)
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“Rather than generating trends based on the location of a tweet, [Twitter] should...”
– Justin Williams, in The Real Problem With Dick’s Bar.
I don’t think that’s wrong, but one thing I’ve realised in the year or two I’ve been suggesting that local trends / recommendations from contacts would be more useful than global trends is what a horrific engineering...
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Love Trees
In the last few weeks, I’ve noticed more and more of these cropping up in my contact’s Flickr photos:
They’re a modification of London’s standard signs, used to warn double decker drivers that they may want to avoid high branches. (I’ve been on plenty of buses that have run into them, making a disturbing but - usually not actually damaging - impact.)
They...
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“The zero meridian used by the Ordnance Survey (OSGB36 datum) is about six metres...”
– From the entry on the Prime Meridian at Wikipedia.
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Bridges: A Guide (2/3)
Bay Bridge ≠ Golden Gate:
Photographs by myself and kevincole.
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“REST is a nice dream. But I’m not personally a fan. RPC is how programmers’...”
– Tom Insam’s Opinions on REST. It’s a worthwhile read in defence of RPC style APIs.
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Bridges: A Guide (1/3)
Tower Bridge ≠ London Bridge:
Photographs by Annie Mole and myself.
(As an aside: because Tower Bridge is in London, and so many people get this wrong, looking for photos of London Bridge on Flickr (and probably Google Images) is really, really hard. Sigh.)
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