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Gardens in the sky
via remodelista.com
Back in my Estates Gazette days, I used to write about green roofs a fair amount. I still find then unutterably inspiring, a hidden pocket of natural loveliness embedded into an urban landscape.
If only more city dwellers valued these things, maybe I wouldn't have been so keen to leave London.
I was born under a wandering' mind
A study has found that people who appear to be constantly distracted have more “working memory”, giving them the ability to hold a lot of information in their heads and manipulate it mentally.
I'm not distracted, I'm making connections… ;-)
A brief mood movie of Brighton in the winter.
I'm testing the repair of the video card of my MacBook Pro…
[vimeo www.vimeo.com/38237667 w=500&h=281]
2011: you won't be missed…
[youtube [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zls4Ao3GyM])
Mad, strange year. I'm hoping for a better 2012…
I am Captain Scrumpy: official
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— The Wurzels (@TheWurzels) December 24, 2011
The BBC's wholesale ripping exercise…
You may have read in the past week that the BBC is in the process of digitising it's entire radio archive with a view to putting the whole thing on-line, which is pretty amazing.
via feelinglistless.blogspot.com
Really? Uh, wow.
Apparently it is true. Exciting stuff.
This is how a movement dies…
We’ve heard rumblings that MTV’s /quotes/zigman/393425/quotes/nls/via VIA -3.99% “Real World“ is scouting people between the ages of 20 and 24 for a series with an Occupy Wall Street theme.
In another sign that Occupy Wall Street is ripe for exploitation, there is actually a website called Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street .
Further, the Associated Press has noted that some in the movement are attempting to trademark the phrase “Occupy Wall Street.” Some of the leaders “filed an application Oct. 24 to trademark the name of their movement with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.” The source of the information was one of the group’s lawyers.
Hot Chicks of OWS is actually entertaining, in a very primitive, blokey way. But the rest just goes to show how hard it is to keep a movement political rather than commercial these days…
[via Kevin]
Why (phone) size matters
One big advantage of a 3.5-inch display: with average-size hands, your thumb can reach any pixel on screen more comfortably while holding the phone one-handed. Judging from my email, many proponents of bigger screens — those who are disappointed that the iPhone 4S doesn’t sport a 4-inch display — see no such trade-off. Bigger is better, period, they say, and anyone who says otherwise is in denial that Apple is falling behind its competition. But by that logic, 5-inch screens would be better than 4-inch ones, and 6-inch screens better still. That’s silly. Bigger is not necessarily better for handheld/pocket devices.
This.
