"The UK’s electricity market is far from perfect, but it is quite robust enough to handle a near hurricane, followed by unexpected falls in wind speed. What further demonstrations that wind turbines are effective providers of electricity could possibly be required?"

"This little rant isn't going to lay out any grand vision or anything. I just hope to suggest some places to look." "Are we really going to accept an Interface Of The Future that is less expressive than a sandwich?"

"On Tuesday 21 June 2011 six photographers were assigned different areas of the City to photograph. Some used tripods, some went hand held, one set up a 5 x 4. All were instructed to keep to public land and photograph the area as they would on a normal day." "All six photographers were stopped on at least one occasion. Three encounters led to police action."

From the archives (via Tom Taylor), diamond geezer on taking down the pylons around the Olympic site in Stratford.

"Any kind of personality would be an improvement on @lowflyingrock’s robotic language" Maybe, maybe not. I went back to @abovelondon from @twisst because I got fed up with their self-promotion and backchat. @asteroidwatch also looks overly chatty. Me, I want my bots to be, well, robotic.

"Validated traffic count data. Counts taken at road sites across GB, each lasting 12 hours on a weekday between March and October outside of school holiday periods. The counts take place on one day of the year so are not representative of the typical flow throughout the year." Coo. (As mentioned at OpenTech.)

'Electronic commerce, we eventually figured out, does not take the form of “shopping malls” you “walk” through. “Magazines” and “catalogues” do not have discrete pages you flip (complete with sound effects) and dog-ear. “Web sites” do not look like magazine layouts, complete with multicolumn text and callouts.' An interesting post on moving things to the web.

A terrifying, saddening read. I'm glad to see that this is getting a lot of traction on delicious. I know it's become somewhat fashionable to kick Dubai, but I sense that Johann Hari could have written most of this at any time in the last five years.

The Hoxton wanker take on thrift. "Everyone seems to be taking a lot of (perverse) pleasure in faux-austerity and mock phlegmatic belt-tightening."

"C implementation based on F/OSS code; Proof of Concept multi-OS client with curses (text-based) UI; Proof of Concept gateway to the Spotify service (text-based protocol, for supporting REST)" It compiles cleanly on Mac OS X and the gateway looks handy for exposing playlists (and lists of what's available) to people who haven't signed up.

PDFs for Apple's current product line, outlining what the environmental impact of their production and use is.