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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire | NYTimes.com
"Pictures are supposed to be worth a thousand words. But a picture unaccompanied by words may not mean anything at all. Do pictures provide evidence? And if so, evidence of what? And, of course, the underlying question: do they tell the truth?" Worth a read. From 2007.
nytimes  photography  truth  news  from instapaper
february 2012 by blech
A Healthy Information Diet: The Case for Conscious Consumption | The Atlantic
Maria Popova: "Affirmation sells a lot better than information. Who wants to hear the truth when they can hear that they're right?" http://t.co/eD3ZOwQx
internet  information  news  reading  comment  from instapaper
january 2012 by blech
An Information Diet for a Sculpted, Toned Mind | The Atlantic
Clay Johnson: "When you click on that article about Kim Kardashian over on the right-hand sidebar of that other website, your boss may not see you reading it, but you've made it more probable that she will read it. Your click is a vote, and with that vote, you're not just saying to your media companies that you want to read it, but other people like you want to read it too. Clicks have a significant, and immediate social consequence. As our obesity epidemic challenges our healthcare system, our poor information diets are challenging the fabric of our democracy."
information  news  reading  recommendations  algorithms  via:migurski  from instapaper
january 2012 by blech
bookmarks for guardiantech | Pinboard
I'm not quite sure I want to actually have this lot in my inbox (the extracts are a little verbose for my liking, although I'm well aware I can be too, and I follow other long-description types, but then I'm human and we're allowed to be inconsistent) but if you want tomorrow's links today, you might want to have a look.
guardian  bookmarks  links  pinboard  news 
december 2011 by blech
29/11/11 - A turning point in British history | BBC News
"Plan A then was based on three, linked, wrong premises: that Britain could quickly switch to a private, export led model; that the economy is bigger than it actually is; and that consumption could survive the inflation surge imported by the Bank of England."
uk  news  austerity  politics  economics  bbcnews  paulmason 
november 2011 by blech
A Point of View: The euro's strange stories | BBC News
"With the euro in turmoil, writer and academic Mary Beard explores the odd tales from myth and history told on the currency's coins." The rape of Europa by Zeus and other stories.
bbc  news  comment  marybeard  coins  currency  design  culture  stories  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
A Point of View: In praise of wind turbines | BBC News
"The countryside is often a man-made landscape, not a natural idyll, and wind turbines are just part of that tradition, writes Will Self." A good read.
bbc  news  comment  willself  countryside  uk  environment  energy  politics  landscape  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
Il Pleut. Greece has poured vinegar on the G20's frites | BBC News
"All the stories on the news are merging into one big story." - Paul Mason on the g20 SuperCannes
bbc  news  eurozone  comment  politics  via:moleitau  from instapaper
november 2011 by blech
Slow News | Laughing Meme
"What I really want is someone doing in-depth, well researched and written coverage of news events 1-4 weeks after the event. When all the details are known, and sifted, and analyzed."
news  journalism  blogcomment?  from delicious
august 2011 by blech
BAA says December's cold weather cost it £24m | BBC News
"BAA said it had handled 7.2 million passengers at its six UK airports in December, down 10.9% from a year ago." Also, Virgin Atlantic is witholding fees because of the "slow reaction" to snow. Fun times.
bbc  news  business  baa  airport  heathrow  snow  travel  transport  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
BBC News - Stargazing and dark sky tourism
BBC News Magazine on dark skies and stagazing tourism. "These sights will be explored in BBC Two's Stargazing Live this week, timed to coincide with the meteor shower and partial eclipse."
astronomy  uk  news  bbc  tourism  stargazing  from delicious
january 2011 by blech
2010 - the year in review | guardian.co.uk
Oh, I do like that grid of pictures for the year's news. I could do without the Flash animations before you get to it (and indeed I did when they loaded in a background tab), but there's something to that idea...
guardian  review  news  archive  navigation  flash  via:benterrett  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Suffolk train crash tanker driver jailed | BBC News
"The driver of a sewage tanker which collided with a train in Suffolk has been jailed for 15 months."
suffolk  railway  news  transport  from delicious
december 2010 by blech
Bike-sharing project expected to begin next year | SFGate
"The $7.9 million pilot project would provide bikes in San Francisco and along the Caltrain corridor in San Jose, Palo Alto, Mountain View and Redwood City for use by registered subscribers." Interesting, but Londoners complained about only 3000 bikes. 1000 for that area seems worryingly minimal.
sanfrancisco  bicycle  sfgate  news  transport  via:@joshuanguyen  from delicious
october 2010 by blech
Nasa Commons: 50 years of photos | The Observer
Coverage of the Flickr Commons in the Observer. "The image is from a collection of photographs, Nasa Commons, that have been put together by Nasa, Flickr and Internet Archive to commemorate 50 years of photographing the space agency's spectacular ventures." (Minor peeve: NASA don't seem to have set the date taken metadata properly. Otherwise, c'est bon.)
observer  news  photography  flickr  commons  nasa  space  from delicious
september 2010 by blech
It's not me, it's you | Phil Gyford’s website
"I want Today to be good. I want it to be in-depth and have an interesting agenda. I want it to be the radio equivalent of, say, the very best of broadsheet newspapers (not the highest bar in the world, but you’d think it might be possible). Instead, it all too often ends up as the radio equivalent of mid-market tabloids."
radio  radio4  bbc  today  news  philgyford  blogcomment  from delicious
august 2010 by blech
One third fail British citizenship test | BBC News
"Citizens of English-speaking countries tended to do best in the 24 question multiple-choice exam." Perhaps unsurprising, that one. However, the Soviet Union's 100% pass rate beats that of the United States (97.7%)...
news  bbc  citizenship  immigration  lifeintheuk  from delicious
may 2010 by blech
A world without planes | BBC News - Today
Alain de Botton's thoughts on a world without air travel, sparked by the current lack of flights across much of Europe.
bbc  news  today  radio4  alaindebotton  flight  aviation  peakoil  future  comment  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
People happy to use airport full-body scanners | BBC News
"Nine out of 10 British people are happy to use full-body scanners being rolled out at UK airports." "The poll of 10,000 people, including 977 Britons... found acceptance of the scanners was highest in the UK." "One in three surveyed in Germany and Belgium objected, and only 45% in Hong Kong and 24% in Mexico were in favour."
news  bbc  politics  security  securitytheathre?  privacy  scanner  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
Facebook, Electoral Commission launch voter push | BBC News
"In a tie-up with the Electoral Commission, Facebook users who visit the site over the weekend will be asked if they have registered to vote."
uk  election  facebook  politics  bbc  news  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
dot.Rory: Do we need a digital Parliament? | BBC News
"Where do you find the [Digital Economy Bill] that finally emerged - and in particular the controversial clauses? I tried - and failed - to locate the key bits, until I received some help from a colleague who has been immersed in the Parliamentary system for many years."
bbc  news  politics  information  digitaleconomybill  legislation 
march 2010 by blech
Secret papers 30-year rule reduced to 20 | BBC News
"The 30-year rule for publishing secret government papers is to be reduced to 20 years ... phased in over 10 years by doubling the amount of old records released each year".
bbc  news  government  information  politics  history  data 
february 2010 by blech
Iran to ban airlines not using 'Persian Gulf' | BBC News
"The Iranian transport minister has given foreign airlines 15 days to change the name to Persian Gulf on their in flight monitors. If they failed, they would be prevented from entering Iranian airspace, he warned." How are they going to know? Still, another interesting example of names being touchy. (I note the BBC's map says 'The Gulf'.)
news  politics  geography  geopolitics  names  transport  airlines  maps  bbc 
february 2010 by blech
Lighthouses could be switched off | BBC News
"The light at Eastbourne's Beachy Head lighthouse - and five others around England - may soon be turned off." "Most vessels, even smaller ones, now use satellite navigation systems like GPS and no longer rely on the beam from lighthouses." It's a shame, but it's also understandable. I do love lighthouses though.
uk  news  lighthouse  coast  images 
january 2010 by blech
Looking for news | Phil Gyford
"I haven’t found a news source I like enough to devote any time or money to absorbing. I’m too impatient to watch TV news and there’s almost no part of my day when talk radio isn’t a distraction." I'm looking forward to what emerges from Phil's work.
news  newspapers  internet 
january 2010 by blech
Micropatronage and the virtuous paywall | Lee Maguire
Interesting thoughts on news on the web. "What if there was a paywall scheme for news that was compatible with the customs and values of the current network-news consumer?" Lee asks, before going on to outline a scheme.
news  newspapers  internet  sharing  curation  culture 
january 2010 by blech
Guardian editor hits back at paywalls | The Guardian
"Delivering the 2010 Hugh Cudlipp Lecture today, Rusbridger said that universal charging for newspaper content on the internet would remove the industry from a digital revolution". There's some well-argued stuff in here.
guardian  news  newspapers  culture  journalism 
january 2010 by blech
Bing tries to sign up newspapers: Web-wide war | The Economist
"A handful of well-funded and powerful platforms, locked in heated competition, could be better for consumers and generate more innovation than Mr O’Reilly’s vision of an internet made of many 'small pieces loosely joined'." Really?
economist  internet  google  bing  search  news 
december 2009 by blech
Carbolic smoke ball: fake or cure? | BBC News
"The curious case of the carbolic smoke ball forced companies to treat customers honestly and openly and still has impact today." On why a quack cure still influences our law.
bbc  news  radio4  programme  advertising  law  victorian  london 
november 2009 by blech
Ricoh GXR interchangeable unit camera | DPReview
"The system takes a novel approach by offering interchangeable slide mount 'lens units' - sealed modules containing both optics and sensor, meaning it can switch from a large (APS-C) 12 MP CMOS with a fast prime lens to a tiny 10 MP CCD (with a 24-70mm lens)." Bonkers.
photography  camera  lens  slr  news  preview  ricoh 
november 2009 by blech
Awards offered for map mash-ups | BBC News
BBC press release for an Ordnance Survey competition. Except: "Ideas already submitted include a service that lets pedestrians map safe routes based on the location of CCTV cameras." "There are three broad themes for the GeoVation prize - crime, health and the environment, although entrants can come up with other ideas." Sigh.
news  bbc  ordnancesurvey  geowanking  competition  pressrelease 
october 2009 by blech
Order Book Part 2 | Parliament
"Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of legislation to protect (a) whistleblowers and (b) press freedom following the injunctions obtained in the High Court by (i) Barclays and Freshfields solicitors on 19 March 2009 on the publication of internal Barclays reports documenting alleged tax avoidance schemes and (ii) Trafigura and Carter-Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication of the Minton report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, commissioned by Trafigura." Looks a good bet. That's question 60, ref 293006.
guardian  news  journalism  reporting  hansard  parliament  uk 
october 2009 by blech
Magazine: Early dinner | BBC News
Laurie Taylor on food and class. A good read (and hopefully a signifier of a good Something Understood tonight).
bbc  news  magazine  comment  uk  class  food  tea 
august 2009 by blech
End of the line for British TVs | BBC News
On the birth and death of the British TV manufacturing industry, with interesting digressions on the fact that we still make programmes and the future of the screen as a focal point for living rooms.
uk  bbc  news  television  manufacturing  culture  business  media  technology 
august 2009 by blech
Royal photo theft pair sentenced | BBC News
"The defendants were offered £25,000 by The Sun for the pictures, taken on a Middleton family holiday on the Caribbean island of Mustique. But the pair turned it down, saying they wanted £50,000 for the photographs, and were then reported to police by the newspaper." Nice to see the Sun have a good set of values there, eh.
thesun  news  journalism  crime  privacy  bbc  royalfamily 
august 2009 by blech
Met Office cools summer forecast | BBC News
On the Met Office and the accuracy (or otherwise) of its seasonal forecasts.
weather  uk  metoffice  bbc  news 
july 2009 by blech
You give me road rage | BBC News
"Sometimes you can become ideologically correct by simply standing still. For years I've thoroughly disliked everything about cars. I don't want to drive or be driven in cars. I don't want to talk about the relative merits of different cars." Laurie Taylor is going after my own heart there.
bbc  news  magazine  motoring  car  comment 
july 2009 by blech
Hovercraft still afloat 50 years on | BBC News
A BBC News story on the 50th anniversary of the hovercraft's public debut (coinciding with the hovercraft museum open day, too). Includes video of a prototype hovercraft flying down the Thames past the Houses of Parliament.
hovercraft  bbc  news  transport  failedfuture  london  video 
july 2009 by blech
Why are they trying to gag a science writer? | The Observer
A good Nick Cohen opinion piece on the Simon Singh case, concluding with the rallying cry that "the greatest threat to freedom of speech in Britain is not the state or the security services or the press barons, but a fusty and illiberal legal system, which has become a public menace".
uk  guardian  news  science  media  law  censorship  chiropractic 
may 2009 by blech
BBC NEWS | UK | Homes rejected for social housing
"'Many of the homes that we are being offered would not meet those standards and quite sensibly housing associations looking at those homes are saying they are not of a suitable quality for them to purchase.'" "The UK builds the smallest homes in the developed world."
uk  housing  news  bbc 
may 2009 by blech
Car ownership up as mileage falls | BBC News
"The rapid growth in the use of cars over the last century appears to have halted, although the UK remains "car-reliant", the RAC Foundation says." "A decrease in weekly mileage in the decade to 2006 may have been due to more people travelling abroad, increased congestion putting people off, and better public transport in some urban areas."
uk  news  transport  bbc  rac  cars 
april 2009 by blech
Metro has turned London into free-for-all | The Observer
"Journalists pooh-poohed the brevity of the stories, media buyers thought it too cheap, rival executives thought it was a licence to lose money. Nobody seemed to like it, except the readers, a fact Metro quickly alerted media buyers to" Have a go at the internet for dumbing down news if you like, but Metro was doing it on paper at the same time.
london  media  news  newspapers  business 
march 2009 by blech
Public timeline | MicroPlaza
On the one hand, I dislike people sharing links on Twitter not delicious. On the other hand, I'm guilty of it, and I wanted to build something like this (but more focussed on your personal network, although I gather if you can score an invite that does work). Score one for laziness, maybe. (I'd never have made it that slick.)
twitter  links  news 
february 2009 by blech
Reports of Vélib’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated | Streetsblog
"The BBC's portrayal of a mortal threat, they say, is best understood as a negotiating ploy on the part of JCDecaux." This makes sense, I must say. I also liked Dan Hill's comment on the original BBC story: "It's public transport, not a profit-making enterprise. Funny how this crops up in a crunch."
bicycle  paris  transport  velib  news  journalism  reporting  via:antimega 
february 2009 by blech
Nerdy fun with URLs | Bad Science
Ben Goldacre on the susceptibility of badly-hacked newspaper CMSes to prank URLs, something I've been doing (mainly to get them a bit shorter) for a while now. The really baffling thing to me is that, after the stories get passed around with a joke URL, they take them down, killing both the original and the gag. Of course, they never fix the underlying problem, which is that they have awful codebases and care too much about bad search engine "optimisation".
news  newspapers  urls  widdecombe  bengoldacre  url  via:davorg 
february 2009 by blech
Warning over new US travel rules | BBC News
Apply for a visa waiver at least 72 hours before travel, online, or you're not getting US entry. "Esta is free but [Frances Tuke, from Abta] warned that searches for Esta online brought up numerous websites offering to process the application in return for personal details and a fee." So BBC News have it as a Related Link? No, of course they don't.
us  travel  airport  visa  tourism  bbc  news 
january 2009 by blech
Leigh film honoured by US critics | BBC News
"Israeli animation Waltz With Bashir went away with the best film trophy" at the National Society of Film Critics awards. Good. I'm hoping Wall-E will be nominated for Best Film at either BAFTA or the Oscars; it'd be nice to see the walls of the animation ghetto crumble a bit.
film  award  news  bbc  wall-e 
january 2009 by blech
World famous- within your own borders | BBC News
Clive James gives a point of view: "Everyone knows that Mexicans are Mexicans but few of us can tell a Canadian from an American unless the Canadian is speaking French."
bbc  news  comment  culture  film  society  canada  australia  uk  us 
december 2008 by blech
Fourteen arrested in McDonald’s shooting | cdispatch.com
"When officers arrived they found two groups of people who had just left a basketball game between Starkville High and Columbus High schools." "Editor's Note: Dontaevious Hatchett and Rontaevious Hatchett are identical twins. Only one photo was available from the Starkville Police Department. It is unknown which of the twins is pictured."
commercialdispatch  columbus  starkville  mississippi  news  mcdonalds  gun 
december 2008 by blech
Campaigner breached fortress Kingsnorth | The Guardian
[[ Within minutes, says E.On, "he had tampered with some equipment" - believed to be a computer at a control panel - "and tripped unit 2, one of the station's giant 500MW turbines". ]] Unless I deeply misunderstand power stations, didn't this just mean that tonnes of coal were still burnt, still heated steam, but that the steam stopped generating electricty? This is a deeply flawed news report.
politics  uk  news  environment  coal  badscience  science 
december 2008 by blech
The world's most annoying economic crisis | Slate
Baffling. [[ Argentina in general—and Buenos Aires in particular—is presently in the grip of a moneda, or coin, shortage. Everywhere you look, there are signs reading, "NO HAY MONEDAS." As a result, vendors here are more likely to decline to sell you something than to cough up any of their increasingly precious coins in change. ]] Is this what happens when the shared hallucination that is money frays at the edges?
news  money  argentina  currency  coins  via:infovore 
december 2008 by blech
Electric car sales fall | Telegraph
"Has the G-Wiz had its day? Sales of electric cars are down by a huge 58 per cent and the Nice Car Company, one of two electric car distributors in London, has gone into administration, it was announced this week." "Many motorists have decided to defer eletric-car purchases until the industry decides exactly where it's going."
cars  motoring  environment  transport  news  london  uk 
december 2008 by blech
Thinking of the numbers | Techbelly
"I wrote a script that lets you see what this money could buy if we weren’t throwing it at second-rate comedians or third-rate bankers. What if we spent it on schools, or teachers, or wispas instead?"
guardian  news  greasemonkey  hack  ghack1  maths  value 
november 2008 by blech
Feed me! Alerts not just for email | Google Blog
"This week, our Trondheim-based Google Alerts team launched support for feeds, a highly requested feature you can use to receive alerts via the feed reader of your choice."
personalnewspaper  google  google/news  news  alerts  feeds 
november 2008 by blech
Home | Tabbloid
"Turn your favorite feeds into a personal magazine" Produces a PDF, but somewhat escapes the one-look-fits-all paradigm of feed reading applications.
personalnewspaper  tabbloid  web  pdf  magazine  news 
november 2008 by blech
The Box arrives in Singapore | BBC News
Turns out that the BBC's shipping container experiment has set off at an interesting time. "The global economic slowdown, however, has cut into shipment volumes across the industry. Singapore has been especially hard hit, with freight rates falling to six-year lows and local shipping companies seeing their share prices freefall." Also, piracy. Next: Shanghai.
bbc  news  container  shipping  thebox 
october 2008 by blech
Man fined for taking photograph | BBC News
'Sebastian Przygodzki took a photograph with his camera, which upset Rebecca Smith and her friends called police ... Sheriff Kenneth Hogg said the matter "could be best described as exceptionally unchivalrous"'. Hence a £100 fine for "breach of the peace", one of those handy UK "anything can be illegal" laws.
photography  news  bbc  law  privacy  via:jerakeen 
october 2008 by blech
BBC NEWS | Business | The Box takes off on global journey
"The Box is an ambitious and unique year-long project for BBC News to tell the story of international trade and globalisation by tracking a standard shipping container around the world."
bbc  news  tv  politics  container  via:thegareth 
september 2008 by blech
Admission fee is scrapped at ICA | BBC News
Well, that bumps the bar up a bit as a place to randomly drop into. Or it would if I was ever that far west.
london  ica  art  bbc  news 
september 2008 by blech
"Online maps 'wiping out history'" | jerakeen.org
Tom Insam runs with my commentary (why don't the OS get their data onto the Google interface?) and highlights the Google response: the data's there, it's just not displayed. Unfortunately, as he also notes, there's not much of a good UI to display it in the end either.
bbc  news  maps  geography  google  uk  comment  ordnancesurvey  geowanking  jerakeen  tominsam 
august 2008 by blech
Online maps 'wiping out history' | BBC News
The oft-quoted portion seems to be "Projects such as Open Street Map, through which thousands of Britons have contributed their local knowledge to map pubs, landmarks and even post boxes online, are the first step in the fight back against "corporate blankwash". Yes, but...
bbc  news  maps  geography  google  uk  comment  ordnancesurvey  geowanking  via:everyone 
august 2008 by blech
BBEdit 9.0 Adds Something for Everyone | TidBITS
A good overview (probably better for casual inspection than the release notes). Also, hurrah for sops to oldtimers: "if you're addicted to the old interface ... an option brings back the old Find & Replace dialog."
bbedit  news  tidbits  macosx  software  development  editor 
august 2008 by blech
iPhone ad rapped as 'misleading' | BBC News
'the advert said "all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone" [but] because the iPhone did not support Flash or Java [...] the claim was misleading'
apple  technology  advertising  iphone  asa  bbc  news 
august 2008 by blech
Newspapers Don’t Understand The Web | Publishing 2.0
"Here’s an idea for newspaper website homepages — just a search box and a list of blogs." One reader's frustrations trying to get local news out of a world-focussed US newspaper site.
news  newspaper  web  weather  location  business  google  via:pauldwaite 
june 2008 by blech
Do What You’re Great At | Davenetics*
"here’s a whacky idea my Yahoo friends. Why not define yourself by your news services and the other stuff where you destroy the competition?" He's not the first person to say this, but concentrating on news not the Flickr/delicious axis is new.
yahoo  google  news  business  via:daringfireball 
june 2008 by blech
Finland's largest harbour crane | Helsingin Sanomat
1,200 ton harbour crane for the Vuosaari harbour. Ordered by Finnsteve Oy, probably the best company name I've seen in a while.
crane  craneporn  news  finland  helsinginsanomat  via:antimega 
june 2008 by blech
What the Papers Say axed after 52 years | guardian.co.uk
I was a bit of a fan of this back in the day. Its erratic scheduling made it a bit hard to keep watching, but it's a shame it's going. Hopefully, as has happened in the past, it'll shift channels (hell, I'd be happy if Sky News took it on).
television  newspapers  bbc  itv  media  comment  news  review  via:jack 
may 2008 by blech
One week of the Guardian: Monday | Designing The News
I need to go back and look at these properly when I have time, and then decide which piece of ffffound fodder is the best. Visualisations of the news by type in the Guardian for a week earlier this year.
guardian  news  newspapers  visualisation  art  design  type  via:jack 
may 2008 by blech
Web type can't be improved? | IHT.com Developer Blog
Avoid orphans by dynamically replacing the last space in a sentence with   (although I'm wondering if using CSS and white-space: nowrap might not be nicer).
design  news  typography  web  css  via:magnetbox 
may 2008 by blech
Newsnight Gold: Arts complex | BBC News
A retro wonder as Joan Bakewell looks at the Barbican. Good bits: titles, nominative determinism ("Henry Wrong, Administrator"), a look at the old signage. Bad bits: a long dull intro, and it cuts off just as it gets going.
london  barbican  video  news  arts  architecture  design  history  date:1981 
april 2008 by blech
Life in London captured digitally | BBC News
"a snapshot of London is taken every five seconds from the banks of the River Thames" by a bank of digital cameras. Interesting, but sponsored, and the official site is Flash and not very skimmable. Oh, and the report is video. Only there for three days.
london  news  photography  art  time  video  via:arp 
april 2008 by blech
NY State blocks mayor's congestion plan | BBC News
This is a shame. Discrimination against people in the Bronx? Pfft. If I can live in Walthamstow and get into London without a car I doubt it's that hard for people in NYC to commute via subway, and if it is, they damn well need the charge's income.
newyork  transport  politics  news 
april 2008 by blech
Street photographers fear for their art | Times Online
A nice, mainstream, piece on the London police poster campaign and the general climate around photography. "To some [...] photographing strangers might seem “odd” [even though they] own a print of Robert Doisneau's Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville"
london  photography  police  uk  paranoia  art  news  thetimes 
march 2008 by blech
'Beeb' creators reunite at museum | BBC News
"Hermann Hauser and Steve Furber, who worked at Acorn, will be joined by former BBC staff John Radcliffe and David Allen" "The Science Museum plans an exhibition about the BBC Micro and its legacy in 2009"
bbc  news  computing  history  modelb  sciencemuseum 
march 2008 by blech
Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90 | BBC NEWS
I've heard his writing described as being like a technical manual, but I never thought there was much wrong with that. So long, and thanks for all the monoliths.
sciencefiction  news  bbc 
march 2008 by blech
White - Spectrum | BBC Two
A visualisation of comments to a BBC News Have Your Say debate on whether white people are ignored. The comments are sadly their usual incoherent mess, but it's pretty. Hurrah for Helvetica.
bbc  news  visualisation  graphics  data  comment  haveyoursay 
march 2008 by blech
New search powers lead Firefox 3 | BBC NEWS
A puff piece. ' Typing "cameras", for example, into the url bar, will bring up a list of the sites that the user recently visited that have cameras in their names' Welcome to IE for Mac 5, circa 1998. Sigh.
news  bbc  firefox  review  ie  mac 
february 2008 by blech
Can the Science Museum be up-to-date? | Mssv
Adrian Hon suggests that the only way for museums like the Science Museum to present topical information is to employ a group of people dedicated to rapid development of exhibits.
science  sciencemuseum  london  news  blogcomment 
february 2008 by blech
Nokia aiming to banish paper maps | BBC News
Slightly overblown headline for a grab-bag of stories from 3GSM, including Nokia's maps for pedestrians (rather than just drivers) to tie in to their increasing shipping of (A)GPS capabilities.
news  bbc  nokia  location  maps  mobile 
february 2008 by blech
Polaroid snaps out of making film | BBC News
That's it for Polaroid instant film. It was always coming - they stopped manufacturing the cameras last year (Argos don't stock them any more) - but it's still a bit sad.
photography  news  digital  film 
february 2008 by blech
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