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Yearly Archives: 2010
No Impact Man | LibraryThing
I’ve written before about how I now log the books I read. Oh, and my one complaint with LibraryThing from that post turns out to be wrong anyway. For the past dozen or so books I’ve read I’ve been intending … Continue reading
Tagged bookreview, colinbeavan, noimpactman, simplicity
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Toronto Elections 2010
I’ve been largely ignoring all news about the Toronto mayoral election until it suddenly dawned upon me that I can vote this time, given my recent move back to Toronto. Better get informed… Election website is here. The date is … Continue reading
Tagged election, forfb, toronto, torontomayor
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The Ask.com Blog: Bloglines Update (and how I don’t get Twitter)
The Ask.com Blog: Bloglines Update – “update” is kind of an understatement, given that Ask is shutting down Bloglines. Bloglines was the tool I used for all of my newsreading (so second in importance after email) for years until, long … Continue reading
Tagged ask, ask.com, bloglines, email, facebook, markfletcher, newsreader, newsreaders, twitter
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Getting space-saving furniture right: Resource Furniture – Core77
Getting space-saving furniture right: Resource Furniture – Core77 – I’ve seen the occasional piece of compact and/or multi-use furniture before (e.g. apartment in a box and Gary Chang’s flexible Hong Kong apartment, and generally the small house movement) but never … Continue reading
Tagged clei, efficiency, furniture, living, resourcefurniture, sellex, space
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xkcd: University Website
xkcd: University Website – I couldn’t have said it any better
Tagged university, xkcd
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MapQuest Dev Blog – MapQuest Opens Up – in the UK
MapQuest Dev Blog – MapQuest Opens Up – in the UK – people’s eyes tend to gloss over when I explain that it won’t be that many years before most online maps and GPS devices use OpenStreetMap as their data … Continue reading
Tagged aol, mapnik, mapquest, opensource, openstreetmap
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Colours In Cultures
Colours In Cultures – there’s some neat data in here, although the graphic is quite poorly designed. Despite that, you can still pick out a few interesting points of what are semi-universal colour conventions: red: heat, passion (and to a … Continue reading
Tagged colour, informationgraphics
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The Democrats Are Doomed, or How A ‘Big Tent’ Can Be Too Big « OkTrends
The Democrats Are Doomed, or How A ‘Big Tent’ Can Be Too Big « OkTrends – I’ve had this open for over two weeks with the intention of blogging. I think I remember what I wanted to say. For one … Continue reading
Tagged graphs, okcupid, uspolitics
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