Ought to point out that this can also be folded up into a little pocket pamphlet for handy reference - remind me to upload a photo
Most of the info comes from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15125287
Though the best part about cities are that they become the sites for collective dreams; sometimes the point is to be lost.
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In an interview about his recent biography Steve Jobs, author Walter Isaacson had this to say about the writing experience,
[Steve Jobs] gave me an enormous amount of material, and the book kind of just wrote itself.
Yes, it appears to have. It’s all too easy to tell that this book wrote itself. Books, it appears, are not very good authors, probably because they don’t think for themselves.
Great short review of Isaacson’s Steve Jobs. I’m still to read the biography, but I’m glad I’ll have this review in the back of my mind when I eventually do get ‘round to reading it.
Supercut of the Day: Pop culture curator Mewlists — he of the 100 greatest “shut ups” in film and cinema’s 100 greatest f*cks among others — ranks 15 of TV’s most memorable “unseen” characters (i.e. characters who were either merely mentioned or only partially exposed when appearing on screen) in order of importance to the show.
[mewlists.]
Where does your comment fall in this pyramid? If it’s Contradiction or below, I’m gonna say maybe don’t bother.
Unless it’s name-calling, in which case, use your best comedic judgement.
(Source: stanleykass, via foomandoonian)
At last!
Gorgeous Travel Planner Shows Times, Rather Than Distances
We need something like this implemented in every city!
“Kill your maps. They’re useless. What you need, says Vincent Meertens, a recent graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven, are time maps. ‘Everybody thinks in time rather than distance,’ he tells Co.Design in an email. ‘That is what TimeMaps is about: putting time in a map and letting go of the distance.’
It might sound counterintuitive at first—a map that’s unconcerned with actual geography?—but think about the last time you had to get somewhere quickly in a foreign country or even your own city. Here in New York, my apartment is 20 miles away from JFK airport. Which must mean it takes about 20 minutes to get there, right? Wrong. On the subway during the day without delays, it might take an hour. At night with delays, it might take as long as 2 1/2 hours. That’s the only information I need and care about.
And that’s what TimeMaps would reveal. A web app, it plots a region—in this case, the Netherlands—according to train travel times. Load TimeMaps from anywhere in the country, and it automatically checks your location, shows the nearest train station, and charts trip times around the country in rings, with each colored ring representing another 30 minutes.
Most importantly, the map is live. It grows and shrinks throughout the day, as travel times themselves grow and shrink; the bigger the map, the longer it’ll take you to get around. Note in the video above that the map expands at night, when trains run infrequently or not at all, then contracts during the day, when trains run on their regular, zippy schedule. Track delays? The map grows again.
At the moment, TimeMaps only details train trips. In the future, Meertens hopes to incorporate cars, bikes, and other forms of transportation. He also plans to develop an iOS and Android version of the app (currently, it’s only available online). “This version will have all the functions of current trip planners like HopStop,” he says.
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Epic Sax Guy and Epic Violin Guy
A very dark part of my soul loves this, and it’s all because of the saxophonist.
Also, that top comment rocks:
A great danger approaches…
A mysterious force is causing all humans to slowly lose all their memories, to slowly forget…
Two men raise to the challenge to counter this mysterious force…
A student of the legendary swirling violin style of fighting, and a sax player that soon will become a legend…
Together, these two will discover the force of the memory loss, and encounter many dangers along the way.
Epic Music Guys: The RPG
(Source: youtube.com)
Just putting this here for future reference. I haven’t looked at any yet, so can’t vouch for their interestingness.
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