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“Charles Wheeler, who has died at the age of 85, set the standard to which all broadcast journalists of my generation aspired. We never reached it, but we knew that if we got close we were doing well.” Martin Bell on Charles Wheeler.
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“…that’s really the purpose of a web-based content creation interface—accepting something as quickly as possible to make the user happy enough to continue submitting more.” Leslie Orchard on message-queue-based design.
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“CKAN is the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network, a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones). CKAN is the place to search for open knowledge resources as well as register your own.”
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“There is not a lot to it yet, just a quick hack that displays the current build status in giant NES-like fonts and a little spinning cube”… which is fine by me. Heads-up visualisation for continuous integration. Awesome.
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“Back in black.” Michael Bay’s rejected Dark Knight script is perhaps the pinnacle of his career to date, neatly encompassing everything that has made him such a remarkable director.
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…and this is why games are great.
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This is, fundamentally, good.
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“All of sudden, I realized that the grime pirates had become a niche thing, a micro-culture that probably wasn’t that much bigger than the anti-pop vanguards that populated the pages of The Wire.” Simon Reynolds on grime for The Wire.
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“250 Trackmania players racing round the same track.” Beautiful; unlikely the merged-replay videos, these are real simultaneous players – and there’s still that lovely, fluid flow to it. I need to play this more than ever.
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“…toilets are the mirrors of culture with their prominence for everyone’s life in the society. the design of toilets can be a powerful element in providing anyone’s happiness, a sense of wellbeing, or even a feeling of small everyday achievement.”
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“An unprecedented act of corporate postmodernism, it’s the game that allows players the chance to rewrite history, succeeding where the game’s creator failed.” Remarkable; hard to believe this saw release anywhere. But it did! Games are great.
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“the eminent linguist tried to spoof the idea of converting Chinese character text into a phonetic (e.g. Latin alphabetic) system… Since every word is pronounced alike (except the tone), the entire essay becomes utterly unreadable in Mandarin.”
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Haughey is right. Some of the worst offenders in this regard are delicious and WordPress’ default templates. A useful reminder of what is, frankly, basic copywriting. Copy as interface, gang!
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“…no new water meters means, for practical purposes, no new houses — ergo, no more growth. You can see that in graphical terms via Trulia.” Trulia Hindsight being used to analyse and predict effects of peak oil based on previous evidence. Smart.