- YouTube – i'm not a terrorist
This is unreal. I know that beat officers are getting more and more direction from above that harrassing photographers and videographers is not a crime, but seriously, I think there perhaps needs to be a bit more that that. Perhaps a total relaxation of the powers relating to photography, because that this can happen in London is just nauseating.
- YouTube – Christmas Light Hero
I have a soft spot for really, really tacky christmas ligt displays. I'm glad they're not as common here as they are in the US, but oen now and again is fun. This one, however, is *really* impressive.
Tag: london
Bookmarks for December 14, 2009
- The London Nobody Sings …
A blog of songs about London. Excellent.
- 25th annual Editors' Choice Awards: the complete list | Mac – Page 2 | Macworld
Might wind up getting a few of these.
- Mac Gems of the Year (2009) Review | Software | Mac Gems | Macworld
Might wind up forking out for a few of these.
Bookmarks for November 12, 2009
- YouTube – The Open Road London (1927)
This one's done the rounds a lot, but I'm going to want to look it up ater, I know I am, so here's yet another lnk to it. Colour video footage of London from 1927.
- Illegal movie download forces shutdown of free Wi-Fi | coshoctontribune.com | Coshocton Tribune
MPAA shitweasels decide that they're jsutified in fucking over an entire town's municipal internet facilities in revenge for a single download. This should not be legal. This is what the RIAA, the BPI and any other organisation that is still fighting for the now-outmoded implementation of copyright that we currently have wants the ability to do with three strikes laws, and DCMA notices and all the other apparatus of enforcement that they are accreting to themselves by lobbying – to place the risk to their profits over the common good.
Bookmarks for October 22, 2009
- BBC NEWS | England | London | Bus journeys 'cut by 16m miles'
You shitehawk motherfucker, Johnson. You lying little shitweasel. The obfuscations your spokefuckwits come out with aren't even tying to be convincing any more. Why are you comparing the year 2000, when the buses were quite badly fucked, with this year? Could it be because if we compare last year's figures, when the buses work pretty bloody well, it will become apparent that your argument is arrant toss? Why, yes, I think it is. And the fact that you think we won't notice is a mark of your filthy dimwitted arrogance. (In case anyone's wondering why I seem so exercised by this, it's partly because I am reminded of the fact that this man who I genuinely believe to be evil is running my city, and that always winds me up, and partly that as someone who has commuted by bus for most of the last ten years, I am in a position to know how much better the buses are now than they were, and I dread them going back to the way they were.)
Bookmarks for October 14, 2009
- Kosmograd: Branding the boroughs 2
Absolutely superb hexagonal tiled map of London boroughs.
Bookmarks for September 24, 2009
- Innocent in London – 'Suspicious behaviour on the tube'
Interesting, if long, account of one man's unlawful arrest shortly fter the 7/7 bombings, and his long, slow progress to getting the records expunged, and a general apology for the shoddy behaviour of the police. Worth a read.
- Stacey, Simplified portfolios
Really, really simply image portfolio system. Might have a go at this myself, as and when I get around to organising my photos in some useful manner.
- Blood-powered lamp
This is awesome on a number of levels. I want several.
- Nee Naw – Marshmallows
On the one hand, this is a tragedy. Someone's, y'know, dead. On the other, well…
Bookmarks for September 22, 2009
- David Byrne’s Perfect City – WSJ.com
A quote by David Byrne from Matt's article that I thought I was worth saving in it's own right:
"A city can't be too small. Size guarantees anonymity—if you make an embarrassing mistake in a large city, and it's not on the cover of the Post, you can probably try again. The generous attitude towards failure that big cities afford is invaluable—it's how things get created. In a small town everyone knows about your failures, so you are more careful about what you might attempt." - The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future – Future metro – io9
Matt Jones on the future of cities, their place in sf, and well, a typically smart piece of joined up thinking. Just go and read it.
- YouTube – Outlaw commentary highlights
This is one of the funniest bits of DVD commentary I've heard in ages. I am genuinely unsure if this is a joke or not, but still, it's hysterical.
- The Ultimate Uncluttered Tube Map – Londonist
This is inspired. I recommend this map to all vistors to London. It really does contain 90% of everything tourists need, and for the other 10%, just ask a native. (Assuming you know any. If you don't, then how the hell are you reading this?)
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 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 7, 2009
- The Present Sound of London by Giles Turnbull – The Morning News
A day in the overheard life of London.