2011-08-31 (Wednesday)
Writing
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Postwar by Tony Judt
Bits of the book that jumped out at me.
Links
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Populations: End of history and the last woman | The Economist
Taking projections of declining birth rates literally results in Hong Kong’s population dying out in 2798, Brazil by year 5000.
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Ulmon Offline Maps and Tourist Travel City Maps & Guides
Meant to link to this a while back. CityMaps2Go was a really nice offline map viewer for iPhone while I was on holiday. Vector-based, so good detail, and no roaming charges.
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Red Maps
Some nice looking (printed, not electronic) city maps. (via @antimega)
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Making the Perfect Listing - Gidsy
A very nice guide to how to list something on this “community marketplace”. Scroll down and things move… (via @mattb)
Tweets
Tony Judt: “Whereas Margaret Thatcher believed in privatisation as something akin to a moral good, Tony Blair just likes rich people.” Zing!
When “the pengo was replaced…in August 1946 the dollar value of all Hungarian banknotes in circulation was just one-thousandth of one cent.”
@designswarm Wait, I thought *I* was The Man? I’ve been demoted?!
Someone posts asking for ideas for a new TV show to an excessive Basecamp CC list. Current winning idea: “I am now on holiday”.
@antimega Ah. It’s slowish but usable on the 4.
@antimega I liked this more than OffMaps for reasons I forget, but haven’t tried Lonely Planet.
@antimega Nice. I used CityMaps2Go ulmon.com/offlinemaps for offline, vector-based phone maps and they were handy when abroad.
@tomtaylor You should be here in the coding carnival. Big up to all the frameworks! Coding people how you feeeliiiinnnngggg!!???
@shaunsavage_etc @stml That we’re both now Googling “EdgeRank” tells you all you need to know. I expect we’re *too* cutting edge. Yes.
@chrislunch @yoz @tomcoates “Help us! This bridge is collapsing!” Dadguy: “Hmm, tricky. I’ll need a new drill. I’ll just pop to Homebase.”
@chrislunch There have been some recent, ah, events that the Victorian transcribers of the diary saw fit to omit...
@pixellent On the plus side, his eyesight’s going so he doesn’t seem to write as much. Yay! Hmm.
@ancient_james So impatient! Browsers are still new technology. Give them another fifteen years or so to bed down.