“You sure look the part. Short beard, tight-fitting thrift-store shirt, slim-fit jeans and large-framed glasses that scream “I’m hip!” I should hire you on appearance alone. But legally, I can’t. Besides, there’s a lot more to our shop than how we look and dress.”
— McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Welcome to Our Branding House.
Air con Tube trains begin trials
The 191 new ‘S stock’ trains, being tested on the network’s sub-surface lines, are longer and will increase capacity by nearly 20%.
Shownar
Shownar tracks millions of blogs and Twitter plus other microblogging services, and finds people talking about BBC telly and radio. Then it datamines to see where the conversations are and what shows are surprisingly popular.
“Do they not realise that fans need the money back to go help pay for them to get to LA to say good bye to Michael?”
Run Graphs Compared
Rasmus notices that the graphs in Nike+ look very different depending on if you use kilometres or miles
“When given some kind of real-time overview of all of the options available to you in a given time, place and context – and especially if that comes wrapped up in some kind of visualization that makes anomaly detection a matter of instantaneous gestalt, to be grasped in a single glance – your personal autonomy is tremendously enhanced.”
A palimpsest for a place: TheIncidental at Salone Di Mobile 2009 - A daily map and news bulletin printed overnight, based on the past days photos, tweets, etc
“It does seem like an April Fool but it most certainly is not. The Civil Service does not do jokes”
— Blue Peacock - The chicken heated nuclear land mine
From bush to bike - a bamboo revolution - Bikes made out of bamboo then sold in the US where prices are higher.
Germany's Green Idea: Streetlights on Demand
Switching street light off at night by default but allowing residents to switch lights back on using their mobiles is a nice energy saving idea. Not sure why they couldn’t just use a switch on lamp posts however.
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