Treat others as you would like to be treated By Nic Price on 17 September 2005 — 1 min read To promote their tv series The New Ten Commandments, shown in February 2005, Channel Four commissioned this sulpture by Sokari Douglas Camp. It’s called “The 11th Commandment”. It represents the most popular new commandment as chosen by the British public: “Treat others as you would like to be treated” (see also British Humanist Assocation on... More
That’s public service for you By Nic Price on 17 September 2005 — 1 min read It’s yellow, and the size of a pin-head. More
links for 2005-09-16 By Nic Price on 17 September 2005 — 1 min read Fourth Plinth Marc Quinn’s scultpture Alison Lapper pregnant unveiled yesterday in Trafalgar Square, London (tags: London sculpture art fourthplinth alisonlapper marcquinn) Transport for London – Results of later running weekend Tube consultation It’s official. Our survey says we want later running tubes at the weekends. (tags: london publictransport tfl transportforlondon onehourlater) del.icio.us: terrible twos Belated... More
links for 2005-09-14 By Nic Price on 15 September 2005 — 1 min read yugop.com Mindblowing stuff! Thanks to my friend Paul for the link, as he says lovely experiments (tags: motionlogics flash experimental patterns design art animation) Google Blog Search Here they go again (tags: google blogs search blogsearch) Last.fm Time for me to catch up with all the hype on this one. Looking forward to it (tags:... More
Cycle lanes in London By Nic Price on 14 September 2005 — 1 min read Are they designed to… a) keep other traffic away from bicycles b) keep bicycles away from other traffic …? Just wondering More
links for 2005-09-13 By Nic Price on 14 September 2005 — 1 min read Learning 2005 Invitation – Game 1 Quite addictive game… sticky (tags: masie learning2005) More
Useful definition of multitasking By Nic Price on 9 September 2005 — 1 min read True multitasking is when you do one foreground activity and lots of background activities. But a lot of people confuse it with trying to do more than one foreground activity at the same time. Summarising this comment. I guess that’s why doing your make-up and driving don’t work too well together 😉 More
The intranet is dead, long live the intranet By Nic Price on 9 September 2005 — 2 mins read It never really existed anyway. It’s no longer useful to call it the intranet. It’s just a concept. Everyone has a different idea of what the word means. That adds complexity. That means risk. As an idea, a construct, it’s been useful, but moving forward it’s more of a hindrance. Who does it serve to... More
links for 2005-09-07 By Nic Price on 8 September 2005 — 1 min read Conversational writing kicks formal writing’s ass If your brain had a bumper sticker, it would say: I heart conversation (tags: writing conversation) BBC NEWS | Magazine | The rules of advertising, Part 2 Quite funny (tags: advertising bbcnewsmagazine satire) More
links for 2005-09-05 By Nic Price on 6 September 2005 — 1 min read Ruby on Rails (tags: opensource development web application) More