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- MEDITERRANEAN UNION [Post-Traumatic Urbanism.com]
"This year’s studio began with a seemingly innocent question: what if we could catch a train from Beirut to Tel Aviv? The simplicity of the questions belies its potential to refuse a certain debate, to move beyond the endless road maps, deadlocks and impotent initiatives that plague the region." A quite fantastic project.
| Friday, December 11th, 2009 | ||
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karohemd |
3:34p | The Fog seems to be lifting a bit, I can just about make out Riverside. I half expected creaking, shuffling and knocking sounds coming from the river and considered searching for the pirate gold hidden in the walls of St. Andrew's, melting it down and casting a shiny big cross ... Current Mood:  amused |
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morbidfrog |
5:44p | Sonisphere This summer: Iron Maiden, Rammstein, Motley Crue, Alice Cooper, Iggy and the Stooges, Slayer, The Cult, Anthrax ... I have to say for once fairly tempted to return to a UK music festival…but so many other tempting ones in Europe …I am still plotting trying new ones and if possible with bands not yet had the chance to see … |
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morbidfrog |
5:24p | Wekendage Looking like a bit of an all over the place weekend… Starting tonight with work Christmas party. |
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desika |
8:21a | Poetry Headbug I have the refrain from "The Cremation of Sam McGee" stuck in my head and it will NOT go away. It wouldn't be so bad if I could remember all of the rest of the poem. I guess I'll have to go read it. Incidentally, know this happens to other people with music, but does it happen to anyone else with poetry/short fiction/novels/other lit? I don't know that I've heard anyone else talk about having a passage of a book stuck in their head, the way people will go on about having a song yadda yadda. Am I a freak? |
| jobsacukcomp | 2:18p | 3 X Research Assistant or Research Associate Posts Pervasive Sensing - Department of Computing and Institute of Biomedical Engineering - Imperial College London / Date of entry: 11/12/09 |
| jobsacukcomp | 2:18p | Computed Tomography Research Assistant Department of Mineralogy - The Natural History Museum / Date of entry: 11/12/09 |
| jobsacukcomp | 2:18p | Transitional Research Fellow in Human Factors Faculty of Engineering - University of Nottingham / Date of entry: 11/12/09 |
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elethe |
2:10p | The crunch Need to sort my life out in the next two weeks. Any advice would be very welcome. ( Tweets ) Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
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julietk |
1:57p | I love my job This morning there were two nervous cyclists. Now there are two happy much-more-confident cyclists! My job rocks. (While I'm here: anyone London-based who wants bike training? Funding available in some boroughs.) |
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karohemd |
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| Thursday, December 10th, 2009 | ||
| flak_rss | 10:34p | December 11, 2009  The Game, San Francisco, California, 2008 — from the series Girls: Fact and Fiction Photo © Deborah Hamon |
| Friday, December 11th, 2009 | ||
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warren_ellis |
6:34a | FREAKANGELS 0079 (Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.) |
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flavius_m |
12:34p | New flat three month summary ( The bad bits ) ( The good bits ) So the balance is very positive and, car parking solution pending, very worth the while those six months of aggro and stress to get to this point. |
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eatsoylentgreen |
6:40a | well, I think it's pretty: http://la.curbed.com/archives/2009/12/k  |
| jobsacukcomp | 12:20p | Lecturer in Defence Simulation Department of Engineering Systems and Management - Cranfield Defence and Security - Cranfield University / Date of entry: 11/12/09 |
| jobsacukcomp | 12:20p | Post-doctoral Research Associate Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences and The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Specialist Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health (BRC-MH) - Department of Clinical Neuroscience - Institute of Psychiatry / Date of entry: 11/12/09 |
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karohemd |
11:55a | Galleria (restaurant review) Last night ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} razornet celebrated their 30th birthdays at the Galleria in Bridge St. (right on the river by Magdalene Bridge). I'd only been once for coffee in the afternoon (nice tarts) but hadn't thought of going there for dinner.For starter I had the Bresaola (air-dried cured beef) with dressed leaves, caramelised pear and walnuts which had good flavours and textures. For main I had the roasted monkfish and prawns in a Thai style sauce on rice. The fish was cooked to perfection but the spicy sauce was a bit overpowering so you only got the texture of the fish. When I made sure I ate them separately, it was fine. There was a little room for dessert but the chocolate box (one of robinbloke's wet dreams) included caramel and toffee so wasn't for me and the cheesecake would have been too rich so I opted for the ice cream which I doubt was home made but was OK.However, starter and main were enough to want to come back and a good time was had by all, despite the rather loud birthday party downstairs. The portions are generous and considering the location, the prices are acceptable, too. Hm, looking at their menu, they have really awful photos, it would look better without them. I wonder if I should offer to do it properly for them and get a free meal out of it? Or even better, to get every dish on the menu, invite as many friends as needed. :o) Current Mood:  sleepy |
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karohemd |
11:11a | You've got to be kidding me Concert ticket prices have been a joke for quite some time but this takes the biscuit. Tickets for Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck at the O2 start at a face value of 60 (+fees and shipping). Any reasonable seat would at least be 100, with top seats being 125. WHAT THE FUCK? For the upcoming Eric Clapton/Stevie Winwood gig, tickets are between 60 and 90. Current Mood:  aggravated |
| coupland_tweets | 5:45a | DougCoupland: Should I reincarnate... http://bit.ly/7PPQwp DougCoupland: Should I reincarnate... http://bit.ly/7PPQwp |
| coupland_tweets | 12:20a | DougCoupland: "Everything's Gone Green" tonight on Bravo Canada, 9:00 in your time zone. I almost n DougCoupland: "Everything's Gone Green" tonight on Bravo Canada, 9:00 in your time zone. I almost never plug anything here, but this one's worth it. |
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shermarama |
10:15a | My favourite flavour of fail Every morning for breakfast, in my current setup and in some previous ones too, I have a bowl of cereal and a mug of hot squash. The squash concentrate goes in the mug, the cereal goes in the bowl, the hot water goes in the mug, the milk goes in the bowl, and most mornings I'm aware of this lurking edge of potential chaos where I could do this wrong, especially since the time a few years ago where I put squash concentrate on my cereal. (Apple and blackcurrant does not go well on Fruit And Fibre, it turns out.) This morning I realised I was carefully pouring cereal into the mug. The thing is, it always feels like a relief when it happens; instead of the lurking potential, the worst has happened, and actually, everything's fine. Given the which, I'm going to carry on with work. Things have been going slowly but they're going to not do, sometime soon, you know? There is acceleration just over the horizon, I can feel it. |
| urbantick | 1:24a | Walking Through Time - iPhone App The rise of location information brought us knowledge of where we are ad beyond. Today you’re not only told were you are but also what is around you, how it looks like, how far it is and in which direction. Almost assuming that you are not actually there. This is usually also the selling point. If you can’t find it for example or your still too far away this will give you guidance. However it also demands in-depth engagement of the end user. This is probably the point where all these services have trouble penetrating the everyday. However, it is still fascinating and if you are into mapping and interested in what happens around you sooner or later aspects of time will start bothering you. Most of the apps feeding your ‘location awareness’ are actually static. They relate to one point in time or assume a permanence. This is now being addressed with a number of emerging apps, including augmented reality like layar. But also in the area of the actual map information there is a rising wealth of information regarding past location information as in the form of old aerial photos or historic maps. Google has introduced the timeline feature in Google Earth earlier this year with the version 5.0, where you have the ability to access old aerial photos used since the launch of the Google Earth service in 2005. Now it has also swapped to the mobile market and apps for the iPhone are available. On this blog earlier featured the great app Historic Earth which has a huge database of old digital maps from the mother company Historic Map Works. Now the Edinburgh College of Art has developed a new web based mapping service called ‘Walking Trough Time’ that is also available for mobile gadgets, such as the android and the iPhone. It looks really promising, with the developers saying: “...our user group is interested in walking through real space whilst following a map from 200 years ago (for example) and being able to tag and attach links to the map that offer historical and contextual information”. Tagging and linking? that is something we are interested, sounds great! See teaser below. found via digitalUrban  |
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morbidfrog |
12:12p | Reptile is on Sunday... Likely to be too busy on Saturday to have a dance (going from one thing to the next) but will be dancing at the Christmas Reptile on Sunday instead
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| londonpoop | 12:00a | Links for 2009-12-10 [del.icio.us] |
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quixotic |
3:02a | From Twitter 12-10-2009 Tweets copied by twittinesis.com |
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