“I think the explanation goes deeper: the bus system in every city I know is broken, hardly usable, and we hardened urbanites only cope with it because we’re so used to it”
— Fixing the bus system](http://olivier.thereaux.net/2010/08/04/fixing-the-bus-system/)
“As a gesture to invoke the Undo command, shaking a handheld device the size of an iPhone is clever and workable. Shaking a much larger device like the iPad is awkward at best and violates one infrequently violated but nevertheless important law of good user interface design: don’t force the user to look like a fool in order to use any given feature.”
“They probably oughta be calling for “nifty code to do weird things with Japanese stoplights” instead of some old-fashioned “papers,”
— First International Workshop in the Urban Internet of Things: Call for Papers
“Aberdeen Angus is a restaurant that doesn’t deserve to exist. I’m guessing it has probably done more damage to our culinary reputation than the BSE crisis, foot and mouth and salmonella outbreak combined and yet there it still is, squatting on the corner of some of the most famous and well-trodden streets in the capital, luring in unsuspecting visitors and spitting them out with cynical efficiency, their opinion of British food set back another 30 years.”
— Cheese and Biscuits: Aberdeen Angus Steak House, Piccadilly Circus
BBC Four Programmes - The History of the Future: Cars
Phill Jupitus looks at how we thought the car of the future was going to turn out and finds out why it didn’t happen that way, focusing on the classic era of the 1950s and 60s, a time when they hadn’t quite yet worked out how to make cars fly and instead just made them look like they could.
http://hookbox.org/
Hookbox is a Comet server and message queue that tightly integrates with your existing web application via web hooks and a REST interface.
“Ever wonder what your pet is doing while your away? Whenever your dog moves or barks, the Puppy Tweets™ tag detects it and sends a Tweet via Twitter. You can follow your dog’s Twitter feed on your computer or smart phone all day. Puppy Tweets™ is a great way to brighten any pet owner’s day!”
— Puppy Tweets™ - it’s a toy from Mattel.
“He will explain how hamsters can survive falling from an aircraft without a parachute”
“With about 35 CPU-years of idle computer time donated by Google, a team of researchers has essentially solved every position of the Rubik’s Cube™, and shown that no position requires more than twenty moves.”
“All in all, it’s not really a useful device, more of a proof of concept, but it was fun to build and it’s working.”
— EmerytHacks: “Wifon” - the Fonera powered handheld wifi pentesting device
“He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites.”
— Google CEO Suggests You Change Your Name to Escape His Permanent Record
“Lycos Inc. today was sold for $36 million. In 2001, the Waltham-based search engine and web tools company merged with Spanish telecom company Telefonica for $5.4 billion.”
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