2011-01-07 (Friday)
Links
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And Now Presenting: Amazing Satellite Images Of The Ghost Cities Of China
I skipped this link the first couple of times seeing it, but I’m glad I finally looked. Amazing, stunning amounts of development, largely uninhabited. (via BERG)
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Simon Reynolds’ 2010 (Playlist by philgyford - Spotify)
I made a playlist of all of the albums and tracks Simon Reynolds liked most from 2010. Well, those I could find on Spotify, around 50%.
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That Gormandizer Man: How London buses are numbered - TfL come up trumps!
A lovely and interesting email from TfL. I love how historic numbers are maintained/adapted. It’s the kind of thing that has no direct benefit to a company’s profit, but it makes the world a better place.
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Cyberspace When You’re Dead - NYTimes.com
Long article about what happens to peoples’ online lives after they die. Good stuff, although I find so many companies’ focus on safeguarding passwords odd; it doesn’t seem like the big problem in this area. (via Haddock)
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ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Engine
Looks fascinating - a PHP/MySQL project you can install which then grabs your Twitter and Facebook network info and processes and graphs it al. (via Preoccupations)
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Rory Hyde Projects / Blog » Blog Archive » ‘Know No Boundaries’: an interview with Matt Webb of BERG London
Nice interview with Webb about design and BERG and stuff. (via Preoccupations)
Tweets
I love it when I switch back to a page in iPad Safari and it reloads, erasing the long post I'd written in an Ask Metafilter form.
Cake-guilt is going to force me to go for the swim I didn't have this morning because I was too sleepy.
@jennylg What browser were you using? Or shouldn't you say? :)
Is it possible to eat too much cake? Only one way to find out. It's been nice knowing you.
@invisiblecomma I've already done all those searches, but thanks anyway :)
I promised Nick Clegg I'd buy him an amazing birthday present but... well, it was only a promise, never mind Nick.
Spotify playlist of all of Simon Reynolds' best of 2010 that I could find. Many gaps, but still: http://bit.ly/f7HbTn
@pixellent @moleitau Could you see through walls?
If Quora follow notifications are an indication of how many friends and strangers are interested in you… more is better! Stop complaining!
Liked tweets
"So this SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, public house, Irish bar, bartender, drinks, beer, wine, liquor" #nördhumor #seose
Should I turn off email notifications from [POPULAR WEB APP] or spend twice as long kvetching about them? SUCH A DILEMMA.