October 2011
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Listensuperseventies: The Sweet — The Ballroom Blitz -...
Oct 1st
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Oct 1st
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Oct 1st
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September 2011
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Sep 30th
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Sep 30th
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Sep 30th
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As dense as a neutron star
…possibly my new tagline
Sep 30th
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“Time is the element in which we exist. … We are either borne along by it or...”
–  Joyce Carol Oates, Marya (via stoweboyd)
Sep 30th
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I think I'll now go and crawl under a rock
Sep 30th
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My inability to understand women never ceases to amaze me…then again, maybe the women are just getting more inscrutable as I get older
Sep 30th
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Flooded Basement...
…no fun
Sep 30th
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Sep 30th
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Sep 29th
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Sep 28th
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“Adrian Short: “When you own a domain you’re a first class citizen of the web. A...”
– Why Facebook’s new Open Graph makes us all part of the web underclass | Technology | guardian.co.uk (via rex)
Sep 27th
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The end of motoring →
In Britain, the percentage of 17- to 20-year-olds with driving licences fell from 48% in the early 1990s to 35% last year. The number of miles travelled by all forms of domestic transport, per capita per year, has flatlined for years. Meanwhile, road traffic figures for cars and taxis, having risen more or less every year since 1949, have continued to fall since 2007. Motoring groups put it down...
Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
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Sep 27th
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the understatement: Fixing Your Facebook Timeline... →
If you’re not really into “telling the story of your life”, here’s 9 not particularly simple steps to try and make the new Facebook timeline “private” again. I kid you not…9 steps! And I put the word private in quotes since I’m really not sure it is since: Unfortunately, as things stand it seems reasonable to conclude that whenever you RSVP to a...
Sep 27th
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Sep 26th
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Sep 25th
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Sep 24th
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Sep 24th
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Sep 24th
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Sep 24th
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Sep 24th
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Sep 24th
“My problem with “frictionless sharing” is much more basic: Facebook...”
– Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine (Facebook Ticker: Mark Zuckerberg’s terrible plan to get us to share everything we do on the Web) The distillation of all that I feel toward Facebook into one sentence.
Sep 24th
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“If you want to seed a place with activity, put out food. Food attracts people...”
– William H. Whyte in the Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (via stoweboyd)
Sep 24th
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“We were discussing an imminent death in one of the TV soaps. She says: “People...”
– Gems from my maid – Conversations with Dina
Sep 24th
“In short, if organizations continue to describe and rate roles based on old ways...”
– Are we really ready for social? - Knowledge Jolt with Jack
Sep 23rd
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Sep 22nd
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Sep 22nd
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Sep 22nd
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Sep 22nd
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“Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and...”
– Christopher Anderson Magnum: Advice for young photographers (found via APhotoEditor)
Sep 22nd
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My cat saw a bug run across the floor…he was unimpressed
Sep 22nd
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Sep 21st
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iPublish: Photojournalists turn to the iPad to... →
I still hold that photographers, film makers, designers of any sort, will benefit from producing content that is optimized for the coming “tablet wave” (ok, would have said iPad but I know there will be others). (via the British Journal of Photography) Documentary photographers have long struggled to get their longterm projects into print. So it’s little surprise to see them...
Sep 20th
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