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Wednesday May 31, 2006
Top Ten Stock Photography Cliches
[via kottke]Including "The Handshake of Synergy", "The Big Thumbs of Triumph" and my favourite, "The Flirty Customer Service Gal"... ¶
Tuesday May 30, 2006
The Gospel of the Think Tank (Abridged King James version)
In the beginning Capital created the newspaper and the academy.
And the newspaper covered current events; and the academy pursued the higher learning.
And Capital said: let there be ideology: and there was ideology.
And Capital saw the ideology, that it was bourgeois: and Capital divided the political economists from the factory workers.
And Capital called the ideology Truth, and he called criticism Fallacy. And from morning until evening was the length of the working day. ¶
Monday May 29, 2006
Drosscape: Wasting Land In Urban America [via theboxtank]
Drosscapes proposes a way of thinking about and approaching dross, or "the landscape leftovers, or wastescapes"...
Sounds like most landscapes to me... ¶
Drosscapes proposes a way of thinking about and approaching dross, or "the landscape leftovers, or wastescapes"...
Sounds like most landscapes to me... ¶
The price of plagiarism: $1 million
The CEO of Raytheon was forced to give up almost a million dollars worth of salary/compensation after claiming [and publishing] someone else's work as his own. ¶
The CEO of Raytheon was forced to give up almost a million dollars worth of salary/compensation after claiming [and publishing] someone else's work as his own. ¶
Sunday May 28, 2006
Websites as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet
This would be dere-street.com... looks nice, just don't ask what it means. ¶
This would be dere-street.com... looks nice, just don't ask what it means. ¶
Saturday May 27, 2006
Friday May 26, 2006
Modelling transport times in the UK - travel times from Edinburgh [via boingboing]
See that big grey empty [inaccessible] area south of Edinburgh?
That'd be Hawick. ¶
See that big grey empty [inaccessible] area south of Edinburgh?
That'd be Hawick. ¶
Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? [via Curiouser and Curiouser!]
Not sure if getting 9/10 is a good or bad sign... ¶
Not sure if getting 9/10 is a good or bad sign... ¶
The BBC examines the rise of the UK's "Confrontation culture"
Ben Page, chairman of the Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute, says there is certainly a common perception that we're losing our manners. And he has a phrase to describe the shoppers having childish tantrums at the checkouts - these are "masters of the me-niverse", who expect the world to revolve around the axis of their own ego. ¶
Ben Page, chairman of the Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute, says there is certainly a common perception that we're losing our manners. And he has a phrase to describe the shoppers having childish tantrums at the checkouts - these are "masters of the me-niverse", who expect the world to revolve around the axis of their own ego. ¶
Are some people really luckier than others, or is it all in their heads?
Results from a 'Luck Lab' indicate people who feel lucky are far more satisfied with their lives, expect good things to happen, are more open to new experiences, and respond better to bad breaks. ¶
Results from a 'Luck Lab' indicate people who feel lucky are far more satisfied with their lives, expect good things to happen, are more open to new experiences, and respond better to bad breaks. ¶
The Rise of Crowdsourcing
How the work of crowds of amateurs threaten to reshape professional markets. ¶
How the work of crowds of amateurs threaten to reshape professional markets. ¶
Thursday May 25, 2006
Wednesday May 24, 2006
Tuesday May 23, 2006
"102 movies you must see before you can have any sort of informed discussion about movies" [via rebecca's pocket]
Ah well, stuck at 22... must make me a glorified Neanderthal... ¶
Ah well, stuck at 22... must make me a glorified Neanderthal... ¶
Monday May 22, 2006
Sunday May 21, 2006
Shell UK stops accepting chip-and-pin payments after £1m fraud
Ah, the fallibility of technology... aka the best laid plans etc... ¶
Ah, the fallibility of technology... aka the best laid plans etc... ¶
Saturday May 20, 2006
Charles Booth Online Archive - compare Booth's map of poverty in London with a contemporary map of London [via londonist]
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Friday May 19, 2006
The Eternal Value of Privacy
Privacy is important because without it, surveillance information will be abused: to peep, to sell to marketers and to spy on political enemies -- whoever they happen to be at the time. ¶
Privacy is important because without it, surveillance information will be abused: to peep, to sell to marketers and to spy on political enemies -- whoever they happen to be at the time. ¶
Pregnant 12 year old schoolgirl insists her smoking habit is not harming her baby
Proving Scotland's health "education" is just as bad as its' sex "education"... ¶
Proving Scotland's health "education" is just as bad as its' sex "education"... ¶
Thursday May 18, 2006
Bedtime stories can help alleviate poverty, says study
Parental interest in education correlates with children's escape from poverty. ¶
Parental interest in education correlates with children's escape from poverty. ¶
Town won't let unmarried parents live together
Because America is, of course, the land of freedom. And Americans are, you know, like, just so un-judgemental... ¶
Because America is, of course, the land of freedom. And Americans are, you know, like, just so un-judgemental... ¶
