Vertu Take-Off?
"By selling handsets on the basis of craftsmanship, style and service, rather than whizzy features, Vertu is taking a different approach to that of the technology-obsessed mobile-telephone industry …" The Economist: Vertu
What is it good for?
Strolling along at the back of last weekend’s peace march, stepping through the debris left in its wake, I absent-mindedly recalled Matt’s observation about the professionals who have to construct Colin Powell’s Powerpoint, and their design choices. I’d often wondered about what goes through the minds of news illustrators, whilst working on explanatory infographics for […]
Real Underground
If you can ignore the dreadful intro, there’s a cute little Flash thing here which compares Harry Beck’s original 1933 London Underground map with the 2003 version, and then the geographical ‘reality’. The Real Underground [req. Flash] [via Paul Hammond – thanks!]
Williams on progression in football
"Watching them compete against each other is like watching the last propeller plane in a dogfight with the first jet, and the rest of us can only feel privileged to witness such an historic, era-defining spectacle. Slowly but surely, the ingrained habits of English (and Scottish) football are giving way to an approach more in […]
Hate This? Try This
Wondered if this might be a useful option on some of the music sites I’m responsible for i.e. a right-hand nav link, sitting under the usual contextual recommendations … If you hate this, try this! I Hate Music
Animatrix, Second Renaissance
Oh, and in other anime news, there’s a new trailer up at the Animatrix site. Quicktime, and hi-bandwidth required. Click on ‘The Second Renaissance’. Not sure who it’s by, but the style is reminscent of Rintaro’s Metropolis – though things get more violent. The Animatrix [via David Thorpe – thanks!]
Life imitates anime
‘Thermoptic camoflage’ in Ghost In The Shell vs ‘‘Invisibility Cloak’, at Tokyo University.
Help eliminate Spiced Ham
If, like me, you’ve put your email address on that Web at some point, you probably receive many messages a day promising plenty viagra, laser toner cartridges to die for, penis and breast enhancements, and future riches beyond the wildest dreams of even the WTC terrorists. Great. So anyway, the below item from today’s Apple […]
Invisible Cities Installation
Adorned by the following beautiful Calvino quote … "At times all I need is a brief glimpse… a glint of light in the fog, the dialogue of two passersby meeting in the crowd, and I think that, setting out from there, I will put together, piece by piece, the perfect city, made of fragments mixed […]
Pepys and Public and Private
"Blogs recognize what Pepys does: that the public and private are inextricably intermingled and that their interaction is worth exploring." NY Times: The Granddaddy of Blabbermouths [registration req., free]