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June 2011

“If you’re someone who can’t drive, like I can’t, you find a lot of American...”

– China Miéville in an interview with BLDGBLOG, Unsolving the City.

“I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...”

– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.

“I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...”

– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.

“I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...”

– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.

“I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...”

– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.

“I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...”

– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.

“I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...”

– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.

“I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...”

– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.

“I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...”

– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.

“I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...”

– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.

“The first thing you do when you take a piece of paper is always put the date on...”

– Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration (via deathbeard) I keep thinking that I’ve drummed this point home, but perhaps not, so: it still amazes me that almost everything we do online has a timestamp (if not two), and yet services are so bad about exposing them, and...

Compare and Contrast: Rail Edition

BBC News: China tests Beijing-Shanghai bullet train Engineers have conducted a test-run of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail link, days before its public launch. Officials, reporters and company bosses were on board for the 300 km/h (190mph) train’s maiden voyage, which the government has promised will halve the journey time to under five hours. China is planning to roll out...

Babies & This Is Hardcore

I can’t remember who mentioned it, but a few months ago I saw someone mention Pulp’s This Is Hardcore music video, and I dug it out and watched it. Recently I think I’ve seen it every week or two. It’s fantastic. It dates from a time when bands were more free not to perform in videos, but instead to just go a little crazy. So you get Cocker in a minute-long Busby Berkeley...

“Should Jay have the right to claim the derived image isn’t fair use and ask for...”

– James Duncan Davidson writing about The Maisel vs Baio Incident. I strongly agree with this. Currently the US (and, largely, the UK) ration access to the law on the ability of both the (sometimes prospective) litigant and defender to pay, rather than the merits of the case. Another piece (also via...

“Whenever you post to another site or profile, Tumblr can automatically import...”

– Why Everyone Loves Tumblr. See also.

“In order to conserve our resources, Tumblr is no longer supporting feed imports...”

– Tumblr support, quoted by Stephan. More: Tumblr removes RSS import. It might be time to write my own RSS to Tumblr API code. Sigh.

“A new episode of Misfits will be available every Monday, exclusively on Hulu.”

– Yes, Hulu has Misfits now. Americans: read my witterings about it, then go and watch it.

“I considered this idea: what if I were to shoot an entire year through the...”

– Chris Butler outlining his plan for SECRET CONTAX: June 17, 2011 - June 17, 2012

“[Calling All Workers] was composed in 1940 [and] was also used as the signature...”

– John France on Eric Coates: Calling All Workers in British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content.

“The proper, wise balancing of one’s whole life may depend upon the feasibility...”

– Arnold Bennett, in How to Live on 24 Hours a Day at Project Gutenberg (via deathbeard)

“You’ll like this: tea has not actually been taken yet. They’ll take it as...”

– Tom Fordyce in BBC Sport’s live coverage of England v Sri Lanka, third Test day two.

“Now our articles come with word counts! And those word counts get translated...”

– Matt Langer in #longrants. The whole thing’s worth a read.

“The British culture does seem less prone to self-celebration, which is proper...”

– Courtney Boyd Myers: London’s Silicon Roundabout from a New York state of mind (via Dan W). I should write more about the differences between UK and US mindsets, but this is definitely one thing I’ve noticed.

“It was fairly common in medieval times to put east at the top. Which has a logic...”

– Carl Muckenhoupt in a comment on See Different, a MetaFilter thread about alternative maps. I’d never thought about the word. This was a little explanation bomb going off in my head.

“The value of the web is in its history. The value of the web is that it grows...”

– straup again. (Everyone else picked this quote and somehow I missed it.)

“Back then people didn’t have any idea what Twitter and Facebook, and by...”

– Pete Ashton: Tower Bridge and the End of Innocence.

“This strategy appears to be in full effect with the latest crop of photo-sharing...”

– Aaron Straup Cope, Towers of History. (I haven’t even finished reading it yet and I’m posting quotes.)