- Air quotes, "product"
Matt Webb on products – what a product is, and how they're changing.
- Old Maps Online
A really, truly lovely bit of google maps work. pick an area out with google maps, see the old maps that were made of that area.
Tag: maps
Bookmarks for January 19, 2012
- TRNSPRTNATION | London
Beautiful. Want.
Bookmarks for May 10, 2011
- The New Aesthetic | Blog | Really Interesting Group
Interesting mapping of a maybe-trend. Not 100% convinced, but it's something to think about.
Bookmarks for August 17, 2010
- BBC – Dimensions – Index
BERG produce a site that helps you understand the scale and distances of things in the recent, and not so recent past. If the Apollo 11 astronauts had landed at your front door, could the distance they walked have enabled them to buy a pint of milk? How far away from your parents house would the German trenches have been, if WWI had happened where you grew up? And so on, and so forth. Nice!
- BookBook for iPad – BookBook for iPad – Twelve South
If I didn't have my Dodocase, or if, god forbid, anything should happen to it, I'd want one of these, I think.
- rejectamentalist manifesto
China Miéville has a blog. I believe this may be relevant to our interest
- Science Digestive: My application for a job as a Homeopath
In case were weren't aware NHS Tayside are offering a £68,000 a year job for a fucking homeopath, despite having laid off 500 people due to the current round of cuts. The level of angry this makes me is hard to fucking describe – it is a near perfect example of the counter to the "well, it can't hurt, and it might help some people" argument that others put forward. Anyway, setting incandescent fury aside for a moment, here is an amusing read: A qualified neuroscientist applies for the job.
- Washington, We Have a Problem | Politics | Vanity Fair
interesting article on the daily routine of the Obama presidency, and the difference between the media now, and the media of a decade ago.
Bookmarks for May 4, 2010
- Find is a beautiful tool – Eric Wendelin’s Blog
I invariably wind up doing something convoluted with needless scripts when I am trying to do some of the things find allows. I am bookmarking this to remind myself that find exists, and I should use it.
- Slyck News – The Effort to Save Duke University's Usenet Server
The original Usenet server is shutting down. I can't imagine anyone will notice – anyone still using Usenet probably has a very specific form of brain-damage, and in any case, this isn't killing Usenet, just a bit of it's history – but still, it's an event worth marking, in the same way that Tim Berners-Lee's first web server is now a museum piece.
- Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art – Stephen Walter's The Island
This is a brilliant map of London, that I would like on my wall. Failing that, I shall just content myself with spending hours zooming in on different bits of it…
Bookmarks for December 11, 2009
- Airlock
Mac App that allows locking/unlocking and other actions based on proximity of iphone. There's a potential problem with bluetooth related battery drain on the iphone here, but if they've somehow cracked that, then this could be very interesting/useful – not so much for the security tools, but more for the fact that I could them script for proximity, and use that to log my location through the day.
- BBC News – Postcode data to be free in 2010
About time. UK based locational services are about to get better. Or at least cheaper.
Bookmarks for October 14, 2009
- Kosmograd: Branding the boroughs 2
Absolutely superb hexagonal tiled map of London boroughs.
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 June 20, 2008
- Map of London Postcodes
I could really do with something like this that goes all the way out to the M25 (and would even be prepared to pay a modest sum for such a thing), but this will do for a start.
- London Postcode and Administrative Boundaries Map :: A-Z Maps
Oh, look, I found one. Handy. This is why people really ought to spend a bit fo time doing SEO work on websites – this was buried on the third page of my search results, despite being about the most authoritative result for my search.