In memory of Jacques Cousteau By Nic Price on 31 March 2005 — 1 min read 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 like a cross between one of my favourite films Le Grand Bleu (The Big Blue)... More
A classic example of a late Victorian suburb By Nic Price on 28 March 2005 — 1 min read 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 bombs had electric trams until 1952 was originally in the county of Surrey and in... More
Design is no accident By Nic Price on 23 March 2005 — 1 min read 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 More
Children learn what they live By Nic Price on 20 March 2005 — 1 min read 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 live with encouragement, They learn confidence. If children live with tolerance, They learn to be... More
Sounds like the sun is out By Nic Price on 18 March 2005 — 1 min read 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 overcast day before. The science bit, my colleague pointed out, is that there’s less moisture... More
Sunday circuit By Nic Price on 13 March 2005 — 1 min read 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 (Nature Reserve) which comes out on Sydenham Hill Turn right along Sydenham Hill to mini-roundabout... More
Stuart Beebe: “Societies do what societies think” By Nic Price on 12 March 2005 — 1 min read Stuart Beebe: "Societies do what societies think" Originally uploaded by PhilWolff. More
The best response to abuses of openness is more openness By Nic Price on 11 March 2005 — 1 min read 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 distributed ones. The connectedness of the Internet – people talking with people – counters the... More
Where to put stuff By Nic Price on 9 March 2005 — 1 min read 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 encouraged to organise our information in hierarchical structures. A few years ago I built a... More
Gestalt formula By Nic Price on 8 March 2005 — 1 min read “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 the whole. It is the hope of Gestalt theory to determine the nature of such... More