The challengers to London’s black cabs
Addison Lee building it’s own time-specific route finding software for London
“JJ’s crush is Lara Lloyd, a pretty blonde with streaks in her hair (a category of fantasy figure slightly ruined by McFly)”
“How can the BBC say, with a straight face, that the internet is “the future for the BBC” while cutting its budget by 25%?”
“I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in Science”
— Charles Darwin (via Depression’s Upside)
OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - I was getting tired of contraptions but this one was outstandingly fantastic.
Matt Jones on mujicomp and mujicompfrastructures at Technoark
According to Jones, the idea of “mujicomp” revolved around the notion that ubiquitous computing needs to “become sexy and desirable… able to be appreciated as cultural design objects rather than technology… they should be tasteful, simple, clear, clean, contemporary, affordable in order to be invited into the home“. If designers and engineers want to “make smart cities bottom up with products and not academic ubiquitous computing which are always postponed“, he argued that ubicomp will need some “muji”.
“Throughout its history, the Postal Service enthusiastically has explored faster, more efficient forms of mail transportation. Technologies now commonplace — railroads, automobiles, and airplanes — were embraced by the Post Office Department at their radical birth, when they were considered new-fangled, unworkable contraptions by many.
One such technology, however, remains only a footnote in the history of mail delivery. On June 8, 1959, in a move a postal official heralded as “of historic significance to the peoples of the entire world,” the Navy submarine U.S.S. Barbero fired a guided missile carrying 3,000 letters at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station in Mayport, Florida. “Before man reaches the moon,” the official was quoted as saying, “mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to Britain, to India or Australia by guided missiles - missile mail.”
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