April 2009
“Education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process...”
– Maria Montessori
Twitian →
a list of people at the Guardian who use Twitter
“Warning: numerous irritating cretins expected to do something stupid in...”
– Londonist
Obscure, Hidden or Lesser Known Museums of London
I passed a sign the other day for “Museum of Garden History” and it got me thinking about all the weird museums in London. A quick tweet later and I’ve got this list. Some I’ve been to already, but the rest I intend to work through this year:
Museum of Garden History - Celebrates British Gardens
New London Architecture - contains a scale model of all of Londons...
“So, yes I know that Don Knuth worked out an algorithm for toilet paper, but...”
– Toilet Paper Algorithms: I didn’t know you had to be a computer scientist to use toilet paper.
“The group’s stated goal is to save websites or data that’s in danger...”
– Web 0.2 archivists save Geocities from deletion
“Ninety percent of clients will be happy with your first draft. Five percent will...”
– Sabrina Dent, talking at FOWD (via nikf)
“Also, if you post anything offensive to anybody, you should be ready to get shit...”
– Autumn on What A Woman Should Be:
Expectations: When to be automagic, and when it... →
Design Fiction →
Anticipating standardization, and deprecating... →
The Doctor of the Future →
A Programmers Work-day →
Doing the Dishes →
When you really “do the dishes” without hurrying through them, you learn things. You notice how rectangular dishes have more nooks and corners and are harder to clean properly than round ones. You realize how you’ve been getting dozens of emails with questions and issues you can pre-empt. Or that those twelve lines of code you’re so used to writing can actually be handled with five.
Pasty 'cross-border' row erupts →
A row has blown up after a Devon food producer won a national award for its Cornish pasty.
WatchAlan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, on the Future of Journalism
The mystery of the missing London parking tickets →
Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On... →
Three Can’t Miss Meetings for Entrepreneurs... →
“It reminded me of the fun we had a few years back at York Model Railway....”
– russell davies: spooky action at a distance
“Comments like “UGLY TERRIBLE HACK” tend to indicate good code rather...”
– We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source
Products We Like: The Pocket →
The Pocket isn’t a new mobile device (although it’s kind of a cool name for one, right?). No, I’m talking about the sewn pieces of cloth you probably have on the sides of your trousers right now, or on the sides of your jacket. Pockets. It’s amazing to think there was ever a time when we didn’t have them, and yet, for most of human history, we did without.
“In this market of branded urban identities, cities are not known for what they...”
– City skyline or marketing device?
Internet Users in Developing Countries Drag on... →
“Harrison, who, having seen various youth groups reacting badly to the name...”
– The Making Of: PlayStation
“Responsibility for this lies not just with university staff. As practitioners,...”
– Complex inferiority: user experience in the UK
“if you make anything a club or society it somehow becomes acceptable”
– Barbecue Club
Why Objective-C is cool →
“A former colleague said of Agent T: “She’s a lovely girl but a bit daft...”
– UK agent leaves secret drugs info on bus, the cost of aborting the work she compromised was £100million
“I feel very strongly that there’s something wrong with the social media industry...”
– Social Media Camp London: 97% awesome
Budget 2009 - all the Labour budget speeches as... →
You can also get the raw count data to make your own graphs.
Nokia: We Don't Know Why Criminals Want Our Old... →
This explains why prices of the 1100 are quite high. I’ve been trying to find one recently because it’s long battery life, cheap price and integrated torch are ideal for festivals, camping, raves, protests, etc where the iPhone is useless (battery life) or at risk of being broken.
Neanderthal Rights: The morality of resurrecting... →
If we cloned a neanderthal, what rights would it have?