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The perils of glass-topped desks

No, not mine. But judging from the comments on this photo in Flickr a not so unusual occurrence. We have a glass-top table in the lounge which at times has had quite a stack of things on it, but fortunately we’ve not had this happen to it.

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Ballpoint drawings

Take a look at Butt Johnson’s ball point drawings here. The detail is impressive. I particularly like Mario.

(via Giornale Nuovo by mr.h)

Record companies gone crazy

This 29 second family video clip of an 18 month old boy which has a barely recognizable rendering of a Prince song playing in the background resulted in Universal filing a court complaint against YouTube to get the video taken down.

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Interesting difference between USA and the rest of the world

Ruth told me about a program she heard while drving home yesterday – about how apparently 53% of all Americans believe the world was created around 6000 years ago and that the bible is to be understood literally (about creating the world in 6 days and so on).

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VERY detailed Google maps

You certainly don’t expect to zoom in on a tabby cat, when you look up someone’s address in Google maps, but recently they have started adding street level photos of the addresses, and in this case, if you zoom in on the address, you can see the owner’s cat in the upstairs window!

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Mars as Art

   

One in 10 websites malicious

The BBC reports: One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user’s PC. Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to “in-depth analysis”. About 450,000 were capable of launching so-called “drive-by downloads”, sites that install malicious code, such as spyware, . . . → Read More: One in 10 websites malicious

Precision parking

Never mind the driving skills these guys have got, I’d just like to be able to park like them.

Inside the London Monument

One of the brilliant pictures in Nick Garrod’s Flickr photostream – take a look.

A to Z without the lines

NB: Studio produced a large map of London using only the words of the names of locations for the exhibition My London / My City, which was part of the London Design Festival 2006. Called London’s Kerning, it won the Design Week Award in February this year. They are selling a limited edition . . . → Read More: A to Z without the lines

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