notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

2013-03-18

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“ Over and over, our co-chairs heard of the need for an “environment of intellectual curiosity” that encourages innovation [so we] want to hold Hackathons in tech-savvy cities like San Francisco, Austin, Denver, and New York–to forge relationships with developers and stay on the cutting edge. ”
Reince Priebus, RNC Chairman, in the speech given to outline the Republican Party’s review of the 2012 election results.

2013-01-31

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“ The explorer encounters suspicious questioning from security guards unaccustomed to pedestrians using their rights of way in this strange rooftop landscape of fire escapes, security cameras, ventilator shafts, air-conditioning plants, and builders’ debris. Many of the unconnected walkways, for instance the stretch along the north of the Stock Exchange building, are fenced off and used as external storage space. ”

Michael Hebbert, in the A Walking Tour section of The City Of London Walkway Experiment.

Written in 1993, that’s just as true now; however, vast chunks of the system he describes are gone, including the bulk of the Liverpool Street - Leadenhall section.

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“ Why did the experiment fail? The only sections of the upper-level circulation system in use today are those created in the comprehensive development areas of London Wall and the Barbican, where tracts of bomb-damaged land were publicly redeveloped on a large scale and pedestrians could be forced aloft by the obliteration of the conventional street pattern. Elsewhere, the City tried to build its walkway system through negotiations with private landowners. Developers incorporated them grudgingly, designing them, for the most part, to minimum standards of size and finish. Crude, unwelcoming design and dark staircases discouraged pedestrian traffic. The upper level failed to attract services, shops, and front entrances. A remarkable amount of walkway was built, but once conservation took hold, the sections could never be connected. Without through routes pedestrians kept to ground level, reinforcing the failure of the experiment. ”
Michael Hebbert, in his paper “The City of London Walkway Experiment”, from the Journal of the American Planning Association, 1993.

2012-10-15

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yoz:

From the manual for the Sinclair ZX81 (via Vicki Brasseur)

“Don’t panic.”

yoz:

From the manual for the Sinclair ZX81 (via Vicki Brasseur)

“Don’t panic.”

2012-05-03

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On April 27th the world’s biggest pop star of the moment, the New York City-born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (aka Lady Gaga) kicked off her enormous world tour with a sell-out concert —in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, followed by a date in Hong Kong, before going on to Bangkok, Singapore and Jakarta. Surprising, perhaps, as any self-respecting Western pop superstar used to begin their world tours almost exclusively in America or Britain.

Does her “Born this Way ball” tour provide yet more evidence that the economic pendulum has now made its full swing from West to East? Alan Ridgeway, the worldwide promoter for the shows, certainly seems to think so.

Americans will have to wait until next year. And what of poor old downgraded Europe? The little monsters there will have to wait until September or October to see their idol. And it looks as if someone from Standard & Poor’s might have drawn up the itinerary.

2012-04-13

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“ Date (month, day, year) ”

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“ dateFormat: String. Default ‘mm/dd/yy’. The format for parsed and displayed dates. ”
mobiscroll - API Documentation. mobiscroll is a “Wheel scroller/Date and Time picker jQuery plugin for touch devices (Android phones, iPhone, iPad, Galaxy Tab”.

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“ mktime’s arguments are, in order: hour, minute, second, month, day, year. ”

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“ birthday: The user’s birthday. Date string in MM/DD/YYYY format. ”
A user profile as represented in the Graph API”, from the Facebook Developers documentation.

2010-10-21

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“ More people need to do stupid shit. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Don’t do it to make money. Don’t even do it to learn hip new technology X. Do it for the sake of doing something stupid. ”
Zack Holmen, author of Facelette: On TechCrunch in Three Hours and $0. Or, as I’d put it: In Praise Of Hobby Programming.

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