2013-05-16
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This is a pretty good example of the flip-flop: the original image (“posted 10 months ago with 18,237 notes”) gets printed out, annotated (apparently by a twelve year old) and then gets a new lease of life on Tumblr. (via stml)
2013-03-15
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How to use a Dial Telephone, 1951
This is a whitened version of a scan of Bell Telephone’s booklet for schooldchildren, The Telephone And How We Use It.
2012-12-24
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Two more diagrams from Makeshift’s Pylons of Great Britain, by Lukas Barry, Alastair Parvin, and Tom Kangro.
2012-09-10
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Step Aboard BART, an Oakland Tribune special, from Bay Area Rapid Transit celebrates 40 years of service at the same paper’s website.
2012-08-30
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Michael Zhang at Petapixel: Apple Moves One Step Closer Toward Location-Based Camera Disabling (via)
U.S. Patent No. 8,254,902, published on Tuesday, is titled, “Apparatus and methods for enforcement of policies upon a wireless device.”
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From jocochrane, the cover of g2 containing Oliver Burkeman’s excellent article on how Google and Apple’s digital mapping is mapping us. Some choice quotes:
In an era of previously unimagined opportunities for exploring the far-off and strange, we want mainly to stare at ourselves.
It’s hard to interpret the occasional aerial snapshot of your garden as a big issue when the phone in your pocket is assembling a real-time picture of your movements, preferences and behaviour.
What happens when we come to see the world, to a significant extent, through the eyes of a handful of big companies based in California?
