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H1N1 Swine Flu – Google Maps

An Ambush and a Comrade Lost – The New York Times

Evolution of Office Spaces Reflects Changing Attitudes Toward Work

I note that versions one and two are because of different theories of effective working practices. The later versions are linked to the marketing of office furniture systems.

Form follows functions?

I wish I could play an instrument!

YouTube – Playing For Change: Song Around the World “Stand By Me”

“The whole experience was probably best summed up by Amanda who, when asked why it was taking us so long to get the machine up and running, and why we all looked so unhappy, replied “Oh, it’s just so…Microsofty.”

Skin Deep Usability « Momentum

Rules of Thumb – SHOOTING PHOTOGRAPHS

“Apart from the miniskirts, Britain in the 1960s produced the Beatles, James Bond, the Profumo scandal and a decent riot outside the American embassy.”

Britain on film | Through a pint glass, darkly | The Economist

…we’d all build a copy and make a fortune.

“Despite the aura of heroic young enterprise that still miraculously attaches to the web, what we are seeing is a much older and toxic capitalist model – the classic monopoly that destroys industries and individual enterprise in its bid for ever greater profits. Despite its diversification, Google is in the final analysis a parasite that creates nothing, merely offering little aggregation, lists and the ordering of information generated by people who have invested their capital, skill and time.”

Henry Porter: Google is just an amoral menace

Google should consider this a compliment. They’ve made the impossible seem so easy that it looks worthless.

You have to wonder.

Customers are supposed to look beyond poor service and thank a company for making an increased profit. Maybe this is from their own experience; the readers of the Economist look beyond the papers lack of good reporting at the profits the parent company is making!

“Back home, First is best known as Britain’s largest train operator, lambasted for every late arrival in Reading, Bath or Bristol (its biggest route) rather than being lauded for increasing profits in the six months to September last year, despite the credit crunch and a collapsing economy.”

Moir Lockhead of FirstGroup took the bus to America | Ticket to ride | The Economist

What is lovely is that it sounds almost human…

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—Mars Phoenix lander

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