Roof Garden

January 6th, 2009 · No Comments

Driving down Baker Street the other day, we saw some tree foilage overhanging a building on the corner of Marylebone Road. Not having an iPhone, I had to make a mental note to remember to look it up on g-maps when I got home (very 2006, I know).
Well, I remembered, and it’s lovely. Look:
 
Lawns, terraces, [...]

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Postopolis!

June 4th, 2007 · No Comments

Dan Hill has done a simply amazing job documenting the various events and speakers at Postopolis!. The choice of speakers has been inspired and the content fascinating. I’m still catching up with them all.
Through his dedication to the cause and (I’m guessing) quick-typing wizardry, Dan has shown that it’s possible to disseminate real-world events online [...]

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The best thing ever on the web?

May 18th, 2007 · 3 Comments

One of the first things I ever saw on the internet that utterly entranced me was a webcam from a yellow cab in New York. There I was, sat in my Brixton bedroom late in the evening, watching the sun set between blocks as the cab-driver zig-zagged across the upper west side [...]

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Flight map

February 16th, 2007 · No Comments

By creating a visualisation of internal flights across the US over 24 hours, Aaron Koblin has generated a map of connections. I love the way that the map reveals itself as day breaks across different timezones. A map that kind of shows both space and time.
Found via Collision Detection

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Mappity goodness

November 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Just noticed the Flickr Maps (via Plasticbag.org). This makes me very, very happy. When google maps and its many subsequent mash-ups began to appear, it brought to mind the often-quoted Borges & Casares short story Of Exactitude in Science:
…In that Empire, the craft of Cartography attained such Perfection that the Map of a Single province [...]

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