Dan W's Scrapbook

“Victoria line and Central line drivers control the door mechanism and make on-board announcements, but don’t control the train itself, facts which somewhat mitigate the RMT’s argument about safety.”

— A Driver-Free Tube Service? - Londonist

“As a rule, any software in this century that reinvents the scroll bar deserves to fail.”

— Lessons from Google Wave and MSFT Kin « Scott Berkun

“The system, called TiMax Tracker, works using small unique RFID tags carried by the performers on their wireless microphone packs. RFID readers mounted throughout the venue can determine the angle and distance from a specific tag and map individual performers to a virtual grid of spaces on the stage.”

— Sensors On Broadway: Live Performances Enhanced by RFID

“One-little commented side-effect of London’s cycle hire scheme has been the insight it’s given us into what TfL thinks different bits of London are actually called.”

— A Ruislip By Any Other Name… - Londonist - sounds like the tfl area naming conventions don’t match the legible London ones

“In place of the video, all we have is “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by EMI Music Publishing Ltd”. The pink strip indicating a takedown notice is increasingly becoming the “blue plaque” of the internet.”

— Newport State of Mind forced off YouTube | Media | guardian.co.uk (links for 2010-08-11)

“Last time I met Marcos him he hypnotised 6 people in Limehouse Town Hall and got them to strip off and draw psychogeographic representations of their perceptions of the hall onto each other’s bodies. I can definitely recommend working with him.”

— [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Dorkbotty Job Opportunity with awesome Arcihtect / Hypnotist. - I can always rely on the dorkbot mailing lists for my regular dose of weird