random stuff

[El Pibe]

title:"I'm not sure if you can get Epcot, but my friend just got LegoLand. He guessed California but it was the one in Denmark. Meanwhile, I'm rapidly becoming a connoisseur of unmarked dirt roads over flat, barren landscapes."

 

[stacey-lyn]

http://i43.tinypic.com/35ko0ht.jpg

[Ted Max]

I'm sure anyone with an internet connection has seen this already, but just in case:

http://eaglesthatlooklikearsenewenger.tumblr.com/

[david_carnell]

Are you allowed to cheat on GeoGuesser?

By that I mean I've found signposts telling me where I am although I have no idea where that is. Can I look it up or do I still have to guess?

Cape Schanck anyone? South Africa you say? Of course, sounds about right. Nope, turns out it's south of Melbourne, Aus. Gits.

13k odd on my first bash though. Addictive. And the dirt road thing is a joke. One of mine was in the Yukon Territory. I could have been clicking all night just to see a road sign!

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Just scored 8176. If I hadn't mixed up Thailand for Brazil that score would have been a lot better.

DC. You will know what feels right re cheating...

[Annette Curtain]

Oh that Geo thing is way too adddddddictive

If there was money at risk and a few horses died, ????'s would be right on it.

[El Pibe]

at two grand I might not be tempted, but they are rather cool.

Anatomical carafes

 

[El Pibe]

Fascinating story of the worlds most dangerous job, driving a bus in Guatemala City

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113293/900-bus-drivers-dead-guatemala-city-worlds-most-dangerous-job

[El Pibe]

Kind of confirms the 'out of one's league' theory, men are definitely less choosy than women but men aren't nearly as obsessed with looks as women think they are.

http://flowingdata.com/2013/06/12/what-the-sexes-want-in-speed-dating/

[Ted Max]

(Radio 4 in Four minutes)

[david_carnell]

Saw that this morning too, Ted. V funny. Especially Woman's Hour. "Modern feminism and shoes. No, wait, just feminism. And shoes."

[Ted Max]

Entries from residents of 15 Relf Road and 26 Tarbert Road were amongst 68 designs entered in the Great Tower for London competition of 1890.

http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2013/06/gasp-at-the-south-london-entries-for-the-1890-great-tower-of-london-competition/

You can see all the designs entered here: http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/07/16/catalogue-of-the-68-competitive-designs-for-the-great-tower-for-london-1890/

[El Pibe]

Loved them. Some of them trying too hard not to be the Eiffel Tower....badly.

[david_carnell]

Something twice as high as the Shard. Made of concrete. With a steam train riding up the outside of the building at a 1:10 gradient.

And they say that this was some golden age?! They'd all been sniffing glue.

[KidKruger]

Opium in those days wasn't it ?

[Ted Max]

It was only going half way up, to be fair. Lack of ambition there.

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Something twice as high as the Shard. Made of

> concrete. With a steam train riding up the outside

> of the building at a 1:10 gradient.

>

> And they say that this was some golden age?!

> They'd all been sniffing glue.

[StraferJack]

from quora:

Ask yourself, if you were a venture capitalist pitched one of these ideas, what would your reaction have been?

Facebook - the world needs yet another Myspace or Friendster except several years late. We'll only open it up to a few thousand overworked, anti-social, Ivy Leaguers. Everyone else will then join since Harvard students are so cool.

Dropbox - we are going to build a file sharing and syncing solution when the market has a dozen of them that no one uses, supported by big companies like Microsoft. It will only do one thing well, and you'll have to move all of your content to use it.

Amazon - we'll sell books online, even though users are still scared to use credit cards on the web. Their shipping costs will eat up any money they save. They'll do it for the convenience, even though they have to wait a week for the book.

Virgin Atlantic - airlines are cool. Let's start one. How hard could it be? We'll differentiate with a funny safety video and by not being a**holes.

Mint - give us all of your bank, brokerage, and credit card information. We'll give it back to you with nice fonts. To make you feel richer, we'll make them green.

Palantir - we'll build arcane analytics software, put the company in California, hire a bunch of new college grad engineers, many of them immigrants, hire no sales reps, and close giant deals with D.C.-based defense and intelligence agencies!

Craigslist - it will be ugly. It will be free. Except for the hookers.

iOS - a brand new operating system that doesn't run a single one of the millions of applications that have been developed for Mac OS, Windows, or Linux. Only Apple can build apps for it. It won't have cut and paste.

Google - we are building the world's 20th search engine at a time when most of the others have been abandoned as being commoditized money losers. We'll strip out all of the ad-supported news and portal features so you won't be distracted from using the free search stuff.

Github - software engineers will pay monthly fees for the rest of their lives in order to create free software out of other free software!

PayPal - people will use their insecure AOL and Yahoo email addresses to pay each other real money, backed by a non-bank with a cute name run by 20-somethings.

Paperless Post - we are like Evite, except you pay us. All of your friends will know that you are an idiot.

Instagram - filters! That's right, we got filters!

LinkedIn - how about a professional social network, aimed at busy 30- and 40-somethings. They will use it once every 5 years when they go job searching.

Tesla - instead of just building batteries and selling them to Detroit, we are going to build our own cars from scratch plus own the distribution network. During a recession and a cleantech backlash.

SpaceX - if NASA can do it, so can we! It ain't rocket science.

Firefox - we are going to build a better web browser, even though 90% of the world's computers already have a free one built in. One guy will do most of the work.

Twitter - it is like email, SMS, or RSS. Except it does a lot less. It will be used mostly by geeks at first, followed by Britney Spears and Charlie Sheen.

[Dopamine1979]

Random query:

What was the name of that pub on Camberwell Grove (now the Grand Union) previously?

It's been bugging me that I can't remember it's name.

[StraferJack]

The Grove?

[stacey-lyn]

Yes, def The Grove. We lived opposite.

[El Pibe]

the chaps at the lovely http://forecast.io

have done a geeky version so that you can see the range of data that makes up the predictions.

http://forecast.io/lines/

[Dopamine1979]

Thank you!

[Ted Max]

Sneer sneer, assumption assumption, obligatory disclaimer about ironic beards etc. But anyway:

London Contemporary Music Festival - two weekends of free contemporary music on top of Peckham car park - tickets just gone up for booking overnight:

http://lcmf.co.uk/

Twitter account at: https://twitter.com/LCMFPeckham

[El Pibe]

One of the hisghest concentrations of the word posh in london!!

http://www.yelp.co.uk/wordmap/london/posh

[El Pibe]

COntinuing all things hipster, classical sculptures dress up