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The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
Worth it. Overdue. Helps explain noticeable burn-out type feelings. "There are organizing principles for what is considered a "good" idea. These ideas are supposed to be the right size and shape. There is a default spreadsheet that we expect ideas to fit onto. But maybe it's time that changed."
digital  innovation  social  technology  free  notfree  via:blech 
4 weeks ago by ohskylab
The Death of the Cyberflâneur - NYTimes.com
"Frictionless sharing has the same drawback as “effortless poetry”: its final products are often intolerable. It’s one thing to find an interesting article and choose to share it with friends. It’s quite another to inundate your friends with everything that passes through your browser or your app, hoping that they will pick something interesting along the way."
via:blech  art  social  culture  history  from instapaper
february 2012 by ohskylab
Dual citizenship: Dutchmen grounded | The Economist
I guess I might not be going for dual English/Dutch nationality after all, then.
via:blech  citizenship 
january 2012 by ohskylab
My dying friend found kindness to be the rule, not the exception | Henry Porter | Comment is free | The Observer
"The health service is portrayed as an intractable managerial nightmare. We spend so much time deploring the waste and inefficiency that we often forget that at the heart of the whole unwieldy system is a routine compassion, which is simply magnificent. And even more remarkable is that we attempt to guarantee this consideration to every person in the country who needs care."
via:blech  health  nhs  guardian  gilbertadair 
december 2011 by ohskylab
Britain is ruled by the banks, for the banks | Business | The Guardian
via:blech  money  finance  guardian  from instapaper
december 2011 by ohskylab
This column will change your life: automaticity | Life and style | The Guardian
via:blech  ifttt  automation  psychology  from instapaper
november 2011 by ohskylab
Civil disorder and looting hits Britain: We have been here before | The Economist
"For all its wit, "Hooligan"—written at a time of really horrible racial tension in Britain—had a serious purpose: to urge readers in 1982 to avoid moral panic and a rush to historically-illiterate judgement. Its lessons hold just as true today."
via:blech  morality  politics  economist 
august 2011 by ohskylab
CITYterm: Admission » Admitted Students » Outside Lies Magic
Took ages to get to this but was well worth the wait. Superb.
architecture  colour  light  nature  walking  via:blech  from instapaper
april 2011 by ohskylab
Mammatus cloud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
via:blech  wikipedia  cloud  from delicious
february 2011 by ohskylab
FT.com / House & Home - London’s latest landmark
via:blech  shard  london  londonbridge  architecture  from delicious
february 2011 by ohskylab
FT.com / FT Magazine - Caff culture
The caffs are the spaces of the everyday, of the ordinary, yet they distil extraordinary stories of immigration and ambition, faded hopes and fashions, of class and business; they embody the values of a different world in which corporations didn’t yet control consumption and places aimed at the working class could happily accommodate City boys and dustmen, gents and tramps. Yet if most of the caffs seem as busy as ever, how come they’re dying out?
cafes  london  food  via:blech  from delicious
january 2011 by ohskylab
RFID Record Player | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Rather fine indeed.
music  rfid  via:blech  via:kevan  from delicious
january 2011 by ohskylab
The First Thing You Should Do With Facebook Places: Don't Let Other People Tag You
"Here's how to make sure other people can't tag you on Places."
via:blech  facebook  location  privacy 
august 2010 by ohskylab
Tom Roper's Weblog: North doesn't matter
"The Legible London project began in 2003 as an initial study working with the central London boroughs and business fora, aiming not just to improve signs, but to offer far better guidance for walkers. The project was to run a prototype, a measurable trial to prove the concept. They set about developing a taxonomy of walkers, but when they had discovered sixty different types and were still counting they gave up, and instead measured walking activity along two axes, the walkers' knowledge of the area and their speed, defined on a continuum from strolling to striding."
via:blech  walking  london  orienteering  wayfinding  urban  mapping  transport  legiblelondon 
january 2010 by ohskylab
Why humans can't navigate out of a paper bag - life - 18 August 2009 - New Scientist
Makes me want to stop using Google Maps.
via:blech  maps  research  navigation  science  psychology  interesting  newscientist 
august 2009 by ohskylab
Flexibits | Cameras
"In addition to launching a specific application when you connect a camera, you can also have your images download automatically. Never again spend time launching the right app or quitting apps that you didn't want to launch."
via:blech  tools  mac  osc  iphone  apple  photography  iphoto 
july 2009 by ohskylab
The UK gets reWired: Wired magazine relaunches | Media | The Guardian
"Wired, [Albert Read] suggests, may not really be a tech magazine at all. "It's a magazine about innovation and the future, and should not be narrowly confined to technology in people's minds," he says. "You read Wired if you see yourself as a forward thinker or an early adopter." I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
wired  guardian  magazines  culture  technology  publishing  via:blech 
march 2009 by ohskylab
CR Blog » Blog Archive » The Designers Republic Is Dead; Long Live The Designers Republic
Designers Republic goes under. "I’ve never liked that agency model - it’s not where creativity lies. DR accidentally ended up there in order to service bigger clients. I’m not being ungrateful to the people who ran the business side at DR – it wasn’t their fault. I’m glad we did it - it took getting there to make me realise that it wasn’t where I wanted to be."
via:blech  design  business  uk  agencies  art  culture  creativity  thedesignersrepublic  top 
january 2009 by ohskylab
Hublog: Getting a visitor's location (city)
Who knew that "Javascript, IP address-based lookup" had got so simple?
web  javascript  development  geo  location  via:blech 
december 2008 by ohskylab
Conditional classnames | paulhammond.org
Technique for IE specific stylesheets: "<!--[if IE ]><body class="ie"><![endif]-->" Clever clever.
via:blech  web  css  ie  hacks 
october 2008 by ohskylab

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