2017-08-21 (Monday)
Links
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A Year in the Metabolist Future of 1972 — Failed Architecture
Mostly good because it’s so nice to read architecture writing based on having spent a year living in the building. More of this kind of thing.
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CASH Music - The Secret Lives of Playlists
On how record labels make and influence Spotify playlists. In case you want to feel a little bit used. (via Buckslip)
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Creative Alibis | Daniel Brook
Being critical of Richard Florida’s Creative Class stuff. Impossible to tell when this was published. (via Buckslip)
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Django Service Objects
I like keeping stuff like this out of views and models, and this seems like a nice way to do it. (via @simonwillison)
Tweets
@yegdup @samuelpepys I’m looking forward to it myself! And it makes for good (if drawn-out) drama to have a false alarm or two on the way :)
@ukglo It’s only two o’clock! You’ll need another one at four…
ahhh, I see, good work!
@yegdup You’ve got more than two years to wait for the Great Fire I’m afraid. @samuelpepys is on 1664 at the moment.
@whoisdanw “The thieves replaced the bell with a skewed sense of the nation’s importance, and the importance of London within it, and no one noticed.”
@pixellent They are annoying. And they’re all writing on Medium!
@infovore I like the idea - applause as a more specific meaning than like/favourite. But the graphic language doesn’t say “clap” to me!
144 people have squashed a small animal between their hands
Liked tweets
Teams of that era knew how to build pro-social spaces, they didn't know how to do was build massive scale advertising biz compatible ones
I made a graph showing my past relationships. It has an ex axis and a why axis.