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Bookmarks for June 10, 2013

Ghost Stations of the London Underground
I like the way this has been presented – I'm not sure I've seen this done like this before.

Tags: maps, underground, ghoststations
My response to BBC Watchdog: A Chrome plugin for Just Eat – Pezholio
Proper Good. I don't use Just Eat myself (no special reaosn I just signed up with on of their competitors first), but I love this kind of improvements to service stuff using public data. Mind you the obvious followup (rhetorical) question is "Why weren't Just Eat doing this themselves?"

Tags: food, plugins

Cooking up an Office Dashboard Pi — GoCardless Blog
I'm more interested in this for home than office, but this will point me in correct directions

Tags: dashboard
Alan Fletcher Archive
An archive of the man's works and career, with commentary by friends and contemporaries. Fascinating stuff.

Tags: design

Designing blogs for readers – Matt Gemmell
I am optimistically hoping to move to a new blogging platform before the end of the year. (I may wind up remaining with wordpress a while longer, but a move is at least on the cards.) As part of the move, I'd like to give myself a custom design, and I want to refer back to this post when I come up with it.

Tags: design, blogging

iDoneThis
Nice, simple way to track stuff done each day. Going to try it out just personally for a while, then maybe see if it's worth using at work.

Tags: journal, task

Long Exposure Neon Waterfalls | Colossal
If nature really looked like this, I would spend more time in the countryside.

Tags: art, photography

Vintage & Retro Childrens Advertising – a set on Flickr
I know there are people complaining about Flickr's new look. But I know you're all wrong, and I can prove it, because this page now exists, and it didn't, before the re-design. Seriously, just go and look at it, and think about all the other brilliant and visually arresting pages that have just sprung into existence overnight.

Tags: advertising, flickr, retro

RestKit
REST tools for iPhone apps. Yes, it's time for another crack at iOS development. Because I'm mad, obviously. Mind you, I've still got to finish writing the APIs first, so let's not get ahead of ourselves, eh?

Tags: ios, development

The new GeoData tool set: CouchDB and NodeJS
I want to give this a thorough prodding. I think it might be very useful for a thing.

Tags: nodejs, geodata

This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community
The next time someone tells you the internet is killing our attention span, send them here. This is utterly fascinating stats-based analysis of new ways of publishing long form news and analysis on the web.

Tags: journalism, writing, publishing, blogging
On the Constant Moment – clayton cubitt
A superb essay on photography's place in our culture. I've seen a few people linking to this already, and they've all picked the same stand-out sentence because, fuck me, it's a doozy. "It is the creation of art through the curation of time." What a beautiful and clearly expressed idea. I'm going to be picking that one apart for a while to come.

Tags: art, photography

Connect your cash drawer and receipt printer — Square Register
The Retail POS market in the US is getting seriously interesting. I await the day they're available in the UK with some interest. (I've spent some time dealing with retail POS solutions at work.) Mind you, it'll only get really interesting when there's an API behind their tools.

Tags: ipad, hardware