Wikipedia has a nice and extremely useful map of the Beijing metro system with upcoming extensions. As the Beijing metro system is expanding extremely rapidly the future is almost now. Like most Wikipedia maps of this type it is made in SVG (using Adobe […]
Author: jaxroam
Open Urban Planning
Urban planning and city architecture has traditionally been a closed process between the client and the planner, possibly with a public hearing (too) late in the process. We are now at a stage technically, and sometimes socially, that this process could be organised differently. […]
Opera ’10 and ’11: Named tab stacks
Many of the developments in the 10 and 11 versions of Opera are important, but personally my key word for these upgrade would be “disappointment”. There is one feature/bug fix which would make a huge difference in my browser use, not when things works […]
Panopticlick
"How unique – and trackable – is your browser?" To let a web site adapt the content to fit your needs a browser will make a number of configuration details available, what operating system you use (this shouldn't really matter, but that is a […]
Third second
Today at 十/十/十 十:十:十 in your zone is the third last factino second this century.
Time out
When you have “dinner at seven” it would be dinner at seven tonight unless that time has already passed, then it would be dinner at seven tomorrow night. If it were “breakfast at seven” then it would be tomorrow morning as most of us […]
Water wagon
The water wagon, a public house that only sells water.
Clouded by ash: A tale of two countries
The Norwegian Prime Minister, having been grounded in New York by Icelandic eruptions, did the natural thing for a politician in a modern democracy. He called in the press.
HTML video: The subtext
There has been a lot of talk about HTML5 video, codecs, containers, and the lot. That certainly matters, but it isn’t something I care about. Assuming the browsers could agree on some standard media codec plug-in interface, like they have done before, browsers shouldn’t […]
“This is your brain on Kafka”
This Is Your Brain on Kafka Absurdist literature, it appears, stimulates our brains. That’s the conclusion of a study recently published in the journal Psychological Science. Psychologists Travis Proulx of the University of California, Santa Barbara and Steven Heine of the University of British […]