Bookmarks for September 3, 2009
- A load of old maps of London
I love old maps. I especially love old maps of London.
Bookmarks for September 1, 2009
- noticings
"Cities are wonderful places, and everybody finds different things in them. Some of us like to take pictures of interesting, unusual, or beautiful things we see, but many of use are moving so fast through the urban landscape we don't take in the things around us.
Noticings is a game you play by going a bit slower, and having a look around you. It doesn't require you change your behaviour significantly, or interrupt your routine: you just take photographs of things that you think are interesting, or things you see. "
I intend to start playing at some point in the near future, when I have time to organise myself a little. Join me.
Links For Friday 28th August 2009
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This one's done the rounds like a bastard over the last few days, but just in case you haven't seen it. Stuff on systems, American healthcare, and Project Cybersyn, all of which are worth learning about.
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Alan Moore pays tribute to Robert Anton Wilson. The sound isn't perfect, but it's still, well, it's Alan Moore, talking about Robert Anton Wilson. It is therefore very good for you.
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Nice article. Also worth noting that I'd never seen the accompanying photo before, the Olympic logo suddenly makes much more sense when it is seen pained on brick walls like graffiti. Really, *much* more sense. I really hope I'll start see it thrown up like tags all over London in the run-up to the games, because then it'll do it's job so much better…
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It is exactly what it says on the tin. It even has a couple of five-star reviews. I really don't know what else to say.
Bookmarks for August 27, 2009
- Five Geek Social Fallacies
Let us play a fun game, in the name of encouraging clear thinking, and making us all better and more functional human beings. The above website is a list of five basic errors of thinking that geeks often make in regard of social situations. So: go, read, then cam back and tell me: which of these do *you* suffer from, and what can you do about it? I for example, suffer from a bit of #2, which tends to manifest itself as a bloody minded tendency to be a bit "this is who I am, and if you don't like me then kindly fuck off". And what I do about it is to periodically remind myself that I am not actually perfect, whatever I might think, and that it is possible to like flawed people.
- The secret names of London
Or something like that, anyway. I've probably linked this before, but I don't care, it's worth linking again, if only for the Lovecraftian horror of "Aleph and Tentacles".
- Why corporate IT should unchain our office computers.
I know I get more done if I am permitted to multi-task. Not all those tasks are work, but I do a lot of my best thinking as a background process. Plus it should be screamingly obvious that happier, more relaxed and most o fall better informed people are just plain more useful in a wider variety of contexts.
Bookmarks for August 26, 2009
- A Virtual Tripod with Photoshop CS4 Extended « Imaging Professional
Shit, I may have to investiagte getting a copy of this. I've managed to avoid potatoshop for a couple of years now, and just work in Lightroom, but this could be really useful.
- but does it float
Just go and look. A blog of total beauty. Keep scrolling down for more visual gems. Haven't seen anything this visually exciting in ages.
Bookmarks for August 24, 2009
- A Short Manifesto on the Future of Attention: Observatory: Design Observer
Absolutely fascinating thinking. Cognitively speaking, there are only two scarce resources – bandwidth and attention and the economies of a post-scarcity future (if we can get there without blowing ourselves up of fucking the environment beyond recovery) are going to have to be mediated by those factors, rather than traditional supply-and-demand, so I love to read thinking that brings them into play.
Please Stop Asking Me To Fix Your Computer
So painfully true. Please stop asking me to fix your computer.
Decadent Light
What’s that you say? Blue light and mirrors? I’m sure I don’t know why you think that might be the sort of thing I’d be taking pictures of.
Bookmarks for August 19, 2009
- Ariana Osborne » Happy Birthday To Me.
Internet friend Ariana Osborne on the magic of the present. If you're annoyed with your lack of jetpack, I suggest this as a dose of perspective.
Bookmarks for August 18, 2009
- David Foster Wallace on Life and Work – WSJ.com
"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the 'rat race' — the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing."