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Links for Tuesday 25 October 2011

Travel Back In Time With Yahoo! Maps | Londonist: Yahoo’s (and therefore Flickr’s) aerial photos are about a decade old. Watching Yahoo slowly stagnate and decay and crumble is like seeing a once-excitingly new part of town become a ruined no-go zone.
A 53% Surge in Poverty Rate Is Reshaping Suburbs - NYTimes.com: I’ve thought for years, decades, that when sprawling suburbs with few through roads stop being comfortably wealthy, their unlivableness is going to be horribly apparent. Dead ends in two senses.
I cite: End of #OccupyWallStreet: conflict over drummers: Nothing good can come of drumming circles. But this is very interesting. People who simply won’t play the rules (however collectively those rules are agreed) are why democracies end up with police forces. And online communities end up banning people. etc. (via @ianbetteridge)

25 Oct 2011 at Twitter

09:09am: @mattsheret Nah. I had a lie in with a headache. Now playing Gang of Four to wake myself up.
09:45am: @mildlydiverting @undermanager And volleyball players use hand signals to secretly signal to teammates behind them.
02:52pm: One year of using @mappiness_app. Likes: socialising, drinking tea/coffee. Dislikes: being ill, walking, working.
03:01pm: @mondoagogo Some of it, yes.
04:54pm: I can't remember the last time I had three work projects running concurrently. And all fun/interesting too. #littleyay
06:32pm: I'm the oldest in my sewing class by some way. I am not Pierce Hawthorne though, no. No. #community
08:30pm: @AnnieFeighery I expect you know someone who can sew better than me!
08:51pm: @tomcoates Ooh, good idea. Far enough apart that there's enough time for new things to emerge between them.

Extra, Extra | Londonist: You’ve confused the Heron (the not yet completed residential tower by the Barbican) with Heron Tower (the office building on Bishopsgate)….