Wednesday 15 April 2009

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Links for Wednesday 15 April 2009
Buildings and Food: How to look at billboards
Brilliant essay from 1960 about how outdoor advertising is entirely wrong. Wish I'd written it. When I rule the world outdoor advertising will be banned. (via Kottke)
Modern History
Awesome stuff: "a series of collages assembled exclusively from screen grabs of Youtube videos." Free printable versions too. Remind me of John Martin paintings. (via Kottke)
Readernaut
Nicely done site for not only logging your reading but keeping notes on it too.
Scottberkun.com » #50 - Advice for new managers: pt. 1
A good couple of essays on being a manager. I find this stuff fascinating, although I'm not a manager.

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15 Apr 2009 at Twitter

  • 08:06am: Swum, breakfasted, five days of a philandering Pepys prepared. To work!
  • 09:45am: Reboot watch: Today the page lets you send suggestions for Reboot 11. http://www.reboot.dk/
  • 11:13am: Tempting fate. All of the fates. Come ON!
  • 04:35pm: Nice sunny cycle into town for a meeting slightly marred by the smelly heated crowded drain of Shaftesbury Avenue. Too many people.
  • 05:29pm: Meeting in turn was slightly marred by non-appearance of client due to their calendaring error. Thanks fate. I will tempt you no more.
  • 06:07pm: @smagdali Yahoo goes up to 10 years ('Max'): http://tinyurl.com/6d2nhm
  • 06:17pm: "Being in the shoemaker's stocks" - Pepys' expression for wearing tight shoes.
  • 07:30pm: @THEWHATWORKS No, not making Pepys theatre, but posting his diaries online: http://www.pepysdiary.com/ (over 6 years down, 3 to go)

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