Mind the Map: Inspiring art, design and cartography
18 May - 28 October 2012

"Over-sophisticated notes tend to retain their strong original structures, along with attachment points which permit them to be bolted on to one another only at certain angles. They become little bits of fiction in themselves."

"You need to know where everyone is on the pitch. You need to see everything. [...] You're asking yourself six questions in a split second [...] Then it's obviously about the execution."

Kiefer in Paris: "It’s an old department store warehouse [...] The whole space is like my brain. It’s like I’m walking through my brain."

The API level and screen res data looks a bit scary.

"Neighbourhood policing teams across East Sussex are set to take possession of 17 more electric bikes following a successful trial in Wealden."

Found a box of Totem plates in the loft.

The 90/10/1 rule of participation is changing. (Or not: http://gigaom.com/europe/bbc-1-percent-rule/ )

"Half of the novel is a travelogue around Japan and the customs and traditions of its evaporating culture [...] A large part of one chapter of You Only Live Twice simply listed, in botanical textbook-like fashion, no less than twenty-two different types of poisonous flowers, plants and trees" - 1. nostalgia for the other culture even while sickened by it; 2. Ballardian; 3. Bond/Blofeld mirroring Fleming's own sickness.

Single Tetra sheds start at 15k - seems a bit too much.

"A startup messed up at its foundation cannot be fixed. Beginnings of things are very important. Beginnings are qualitatively different. " [and!:] "Experience has shown that there is great predictive power in a venture-backed CEO’s salary: the lower it is, the better the company tends to do. Empirically, if you could reduce all your diligence to one question, you should ask how much the CEO of a prospective portfolio company draws in salary. If the answer is more than $150k, do not invest."

"The difficult corner case is the high-performing individual contributor that you can tell will likely fail in a leadership position"

"We're very hard over on that because we've learned, and as time has demonstrated to us, one of the key risks to our networks is that unauthorised device, that memory device being introduced into our networks [...] And that's not just in terms of the the compromise of that specific machine but the threat that that would impose to the rest of the networks. We're in great danger of the policy following the technology,"

"What Wall Street seems to have missed is that the gifting season is a global event spanning into January [...] The reason lies in the way the Earth is tilted and the way the continents are arranged upon it." - Asymco gets his McPhee on.

"Bond and his various nemeses live in the inter-zone, a bland Super-Cannes."

TeraHertz passive screening of people - bought by Digital Barriers in Mar2012

IP video solutions - got bought by Digital Barriers in Mar2012 http://www.digitalbarriers.com/news/company/digital-barriers-announces-acquisition-of-codestuff/

Take photo, wait, get written description on what camera saw.

History of power supplies for computers.

Nice fingerless gloves and Mr D looking effortlessly cool.

"The most iconic image, introduced in 1967 with the advent of colour TV, was called Test Card F [...] Now living in the New Forest with two daughters, she can claim to have had more screen time – around 70,000 hours – than anyone else in British TV history."

"Over the last decade, we saw megatons of art that was produced in factories, turned out by armies of assistants, and sometimes never touched by its makers. All you could think about was how much it cost."

"Designed for real-time, short-lived messages, similar to information exchanged via voice calls, Cellcrypt reduces vulnerabilities by not utilizing a messaging server, but delivers encrypted messages directly when both parties are connected. This also avoids the storing and forwarding of messages, which users typically don’t want when sending time-sensitive information, preferring instead that the messages be sent immediately and deleted as soon as read."

"Public APIs are forever - one chance to get it right"

"The Guardian Project aims to create easy to use apps, open-source firmware MODs, and customized, commercial mobile phones that can be used and deployed around the world, by any person looking to protect their communications and personal data from unjust intrusion and monitoring."

You can see why they need to keep patenting, and why they're trying to do something better, but the "defence" window is big.

What do do when choosing multiple entities from a list that might be large. Email generally has you type or select groups that you've built yourself. Calendars generally do the same (Google) or long list of checkboxes as in the new Basecamp.

"& some stories written fifteen years ago seem to have been written by someone older & a lot less lively than you are now, which is a puzzle"

Instagram view for flickr

"one of the great, paradoxical advantages of historical fiction is that it does not date. Fatherland in particular – set in an imagined past that is also a conjectured future – is doubly insulated against fashion."

"also a fictional imagining of how people can manage not to know things"

Earth + fire = ceramics. Earthenware and porcelain pottery, glass, concrete, housing, lenses, microscopes, telescopes and other optics, electricity, fibre-optics, superconductors, lager. Extraordinary.

True, esp selling on price vs selling on perceived value/ROI.

Beautiful relief for maps. They work brilliantly when you defocus, but the terrain "collapses" back into pattern when you scrutinise them, which suggests that something to do with scale or line weight might be important.

Disintermediation that leads to (oligo)monopoly *and* (oligo)monopsony is perfect re-intermediation - a single middleman remains.

Author/critic Rose publishes his own editions and claims copyright over the unpublished material, National Lib of Ireland respnds by publishing online. Copyright funferal!

I don't know what this is but testing, scraping, rendering and monitoring are an interesting combination.

!!! until june 2012, via catfunt

Cookie-less local storage to avoid pranging on EU cookie law

Nokia's poor strategy: "decisions were not driven by whether the products would be hired for different jobs, but that they would hit different price points. In other words, segmentation of customers by their ability to pay for devices rather than categorization of the jobs they hired mobile devices to do."

Interesting on button size, placement etc

Culture fit as a (the?) primary factor in hiring success

The man from the Isle of Null

"The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none — not one — of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliché and already told. This is why Kinkade's pictures strike those in the art world as either prepackaged, ersatz, contrived, or cynical. Unoriginal rote things done in his perfectly conventional, balanced people-pleasing way produced these confected conglomerations of things people wanted to think they wanted to think about, democratic paintings whose meanings are hidden from no one, whose appeal is to not to vex or disturb, to produce doubt or newness."

On Instagram value. Compare: http://www.theequitykicker.com/2012/04/11/facebook-and-instagram

On Instagram value. I am not sure about this. Compare: http://www.theequitykicker.com/2012/04/11/facebook-and-instagram

"As we reach 50% penetration of smartphones, platform churn will become a significant component of market performance [...] But let’s keep in mind that RIM’s satisfaction and the loyalty of their customers was exceptionally high a few years ago. The rate of evaporation of goodwill toward the brand is breathtaking. The longer term test of mobile platform performance will be in the recurring purchase rates. Loyalty must be earned and preserved. I.e. “You come for the product, you stay for the ecosystem."