Monthly Archives: March 2005

In memory of Jacques Cousteau

This evening my Dad and I went to see Wes Anderson’s fantastic The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. It seems difficult to go wrong with anything with Bill Murray in it these days. I can really recommend it, it felt … Continue reading

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A classic example of a late Victorian suburb

East Dulwich: is a classic example of a laste Victorian suburb had a cinema between 1938 and 1972 (the building was demolished in 2003) was bombed heavily in World War II during the Blitz and by V1 and V2 flying … Continue reading

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Design is no accident

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident. Emil Ruder Typography See entry about Emil Ruder in German Wikipedia

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Children learn what they live

If children live with criticism, They learn to condemn. If children live with hostility, They learn to fight. If children live with ridicule, They learn to be shy. If children live with shame, They learn to feel guilty. If children … Continue reading

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Sounds like the sun is out

Winter is finally on the wane. The clouds are whiter and whispier and there’s sunshine. Sitting in the office yesterday with the window slightly open, I really noticed how the noise coming in from the outside sounded different from the … Continue reading

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Sunday circuit

Good run… Up Dunstans Road and turn left (South) on to Lordship Lane Opposite Harvester on South Circular go through gate and up Cox’s Walk to Dulwich Woods Up hill over disused railway tunnel at back of Sydenham Hill Wood … Continue reading

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Stuart Beebe: “Societies do what societies think”

Stuart Beebe: "Societies do what societies think" Originally uploaded by PhilWolff.

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The best response to abuses of openness is more openness

This from David Weinberger via Euan: Open, transparent environments are more secure and more stable than closed, opaque ones. While Internet services can be interrupted, the Internet as a global system is ultimately resilient to attacks, even sophisticated and widely … Continue reading

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Where to put stuff

Chatting to my friend Claire earlier about having cleared my inbox thanks to Mark Hurst’s very handy guide to Managing incoming email. We talked about how, because of the tools we’ve been given to deal with our information, we’ve been … Continue reading

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Gestalt formula

“The fundamental ‘formula’ of Gestalt theory might be expressed in this way. There are wholes, the behaviour of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes are themselves determined by the intrinsic nature of … Continue reading

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