- Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management
Might want to have a play with this, see if I can get it to join up with other tools, so I've actually got my own database of my photos.
- London to the letter: meet Edward Johnston, the font of all tube style
Good article, more importantly: that's an exhibition I really want to see.
- A 3-Hour Long Mixtape of Goth History
Exactly what it says on the tin, but an interesting, deep-cuts type offering.
Tag: underground
Bookmarks for December 9, 2015
- London Underground Station Design Idiom
One to read in depth when I have the time. Because I'm a nerd.
Bookmarks for January 27, 2014
- JURASSIC PARK Velociraptor Cage Crate 1993 Original Screen Used Movie Prop | eBay
Someone fetch me 70 Grand. I need this, for Import Reasons. Yes. Reasons.
- 38 Breathtaking Pictures From The Early Days Of The London Underground
Filed for later inspiration.
- What Is a Million “Likes” Worth? — Artists on the Internet — Medium
Straight talking write up of making money and an indie artist on the internet.
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.
- 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?"
Bookmarks for November 12, 2012
- 150 great things about the Underground
This looks like a brilliant blog. I look forward to having the time to read it in full.
Bookmarks for May 25, 2012
- Griot
The next time I meet a pagan wanging on about bards and druids and their sacred oral traditions, I'm going to slap them in their boringly white middle class face. The phenomena is far from unique, and what they're spouting about "Celtic Tradition" in Britain it's mostly made up bullshit anyway.
- UI design in the Avengers
Detail shots of what are clearly some very cleverly thought out bits of UI design for fictional ultra-tech. This sort of thing is fascinating, both from an ideas point of view, and as an illustration of the level of thought and attention to detail that goes into even fleeting details in the background of a movie.
- London Underground Tube Diary – Going Underground's Blog
A chance to take a steam train on the tube! (OK, not actually, you know, underground, but that's OK, because it'll be pretty!) Yes, I will obviously have to go. I would also like to make it clear that I thought steam trains were cool *before* the goth scene discovered the colour brown.
Bookmarks for April 2, 2012
- Planning a trip to Canada or the Caribbean? US Immigration may have other ideas… – News & Advice – Travel – The Independent
I await the first tales of someone's holiday being fucked up because they happened to share a name with someone who is on the US list, even despite the fact that they're not even flying near the US. I also await being allowed to deny US citizens the right to enter France.
- BBC News – 10 stories that could be April Fools pranks but aren't
Several of these are fascinating. Others are just mad. Either way, I like 'em.
- What Lies Beneath: Excavating Crossrail's tunnels | In-depth | The Engineer
This is fascinating reading. Example facts from this piece: tunnel boring machines go at about 100m per week, and have a turning radius of 250m. Inpressive enough, but in places the tunnels these things are cutting are passing with 1m of existing tunnels, which, obviously, it would be very bad if they were to hit. "Lads, we've got to start turning now, so that we're in the right place in 2 weeks time. If we're out by over a foot, were going to cause major damage to something expensive. No do-overs. Everyone ready?"
Bookmarks for November 13, 2010
- Alistair Bell's LU Record Attempt
Horrifyingly, I may have a use for this. I don't want to complete with the record, and I won't died of misery of if I fail to get the lot, but it, er, may come in handy as a chart of a way to get a job done a lot quicker than I might otherwise have thought.
- A renaissance rooted in technology: the literary magazine returns | Books | guardian.co.uk
Lots of things to think re: the future of literary publishing here.
Bookmarks for October 23, 2010
- Mike Heffernan – Ghosts of the London Underground – Unexplained Mysteries
Mostly bookmarking this for myself, although I imagine a few people here might be mildly diverted by it.
Bookmarks for September 28, 2009
- Mitch Horowitz: What is the occult? – Boing Boing
Interesting definition supplied. I like the term "occult" because it's admirably woobly-woo resistant, when correctly understood (something far too many "practicioners" fail to do). As I'm sure most of you know, it means "hidden". And what is hidden may be revealed with science when we work it out. It's a lot better than "supernatural", which is a term I don't like – there is no supernatural, merely the natural that science has not fully explained yet.
- Chord by Conrad Shawcross
Must remember to book tickets to see this.
- re:vision recycled camera lens bracelets – Oye Modern. Unique, funky, limited edition jewellery.
Beautiful, and I kinda want one, but much, much too pricey to be worth it.
- MediaPost Publications Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User's Gmail Account
This sort of combination of abuse of power and utter moronic stupidity by the courts and major institutions makes me incandescent. There are far worse things that happen in the world every day, and I know it, but this sort of thing is a particular hot-button for me, because it's so self-evidently unjust and unreasonable that I cannot fathom how any sane person could conceive of it as a decent or sensible thing to do.
- Dyatlov Pass incident – Wikipedia
Well, this is crying out to be recycled into some nasty bit of horror/mystery fiction or something.