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2012-07-26 (Thursday)

Photos

  1. The Olympic torch

  2. Waiting for the Olympic torch

  3. Fire (3)

  4. Fire (2)

  5. Fire

  6. Olympic parking

  7. Inspired by

  8. LONDON waits

Links

  1. Pin pages to the wall and examine them with binoculars

    Lovely, like a mini, themed David Markson.

  2. Dissent Magazine - Online Features - The White Negro (Fall, 1957) -

    Norman Mailer’s essay on the hipster. Which I’ve only read through Adam Curtis, so I should probably read the actual thing.

  3. The Entrepreneurial Generation - NYTimes.com

    This is good - this generation’s “thing” is starting small businesses. “Our culture hero is not the artist or reformer, not the saint or scientist, but the entrepreneur.” Although it falls apart a bit when suggesting hipsters have only been around for 15 years. (via Waxy)

Tweets

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • #

    Newsnight: The Olympic torch is "like a flaming brandy snap of hope."

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • #

    London being mostly brilliant. (If you don't have to travel.)

    Westminster, England, United Kingdom

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • #

    Thames. Dusk. All the buildings. Waterloo Bridge. Big wheel. Breeze. Tourists. A ship on a roof. Clear sky. Fairground. Moon. Helicopters.

    Westminster, England, United Kingdom

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • #

    “EVEN BIG BEN IS RINGING OUTSIDE HIS SCHEDULE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1952!”

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • In reply to… • #

    @matlock Inevitable question, but… is @chrislunch a detective from Doncaster?

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • In reply to… • #

    @benhammersley When I’m retired and have nothing to do (ha!) I want to just loiter around town just giving people directions.

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • #

    .@infovore is also my new jam. I’m going to make an artisinal @tomtaylor and @infovore preserve.

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • In reply to… • #

    @mildlydiverting ((( Kim )))

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • #

    .@tomtaylor is my new jam. ♫

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • In reply to… • #

    @infovore Surely, these days, ⌥-j would be the better band name?

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • In reply to… • #

    @revdancatt They should have pay-for streaming of the morning conference. Maybe delayed so they can bleep out any libellous etc bits :)

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • #

    Torch glimpsed. So much joy and so much fury compressed into such a brief moment. I almost exploded in a shower of contradictions.

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • In reply to… • #

    @suegyford By Museum of London. Done now. Good job I didn't blink :)

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • #

    Samsung, Coca Cola and Lloyds TSB make me want to kill.

    City of London, England, United Kingdom

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • #

    Waiting for the torch. Crowds. Sun. Smiles.

    City of London, England, United Kingdom

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    Phil Gyford @philgyford • • #

    CMS nightmares.

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    Ben Barker @BenGBarker • • In reply to… • #

    @philgyford You can't be the only one, earlier on I saw a bloke chasing some of their vehicles with a flaming torch.