3 month ago
Rod Begbie : chumby > london tube status - Even though I don't live in London, I like having this pop up on my Chumby. It's just a nice way to feel ambiently connected to the UK. #
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15 month ago
Rod Begbie : meish dot org » Things my new commute has taught me #1 - I must confess that I have similarly designed heuristics and strategies for the T, as well as lane positioning on the Mass Pike, but I've never been geeky enough to write them down. [via] #
philgyford : Meish dot org » Things my new commute has taught me #1 - Meg Pickard on the hierarchy of positions in a Hammersmith & City Line carriage. It annoys me that I already know this stuff. I don't want to.
plasticbag : Meg Pickard on the natural heirarchy of seats on the tube... - I don't agree with some of what she says - the idea of being trapped by the end door with the window open in a train would appall me. Hard to escape. Otherwise though, desperately and depressingly insightful.
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22 month ago
philgyford : Music: Pocketbooks: Indie-Pop | Nothing But Green Lights: A UK mp3 blog. - Loving this song. The first to feature an Oyster Card and London Underground fare boundaries? Sometimes it's like Sarah Records never went away.
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22 month ago
plasticbag : Most fun ever: audio clips of the London Underground that you can play together to create your underground experience - This is such fun. Play a few together on a big stereo to create the truly claustrophobic and brain-rattling sensations that previously only the Underground has been able to produce...
philgyford : Freesound :: view pack :: london underground - I'm not sure why sounds recorded from the Tube are interesting, but they are. (via Plasticbag)
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24 month ago
Rod Begbie : Johnston (typeface) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Turns out that the official London Underground typeface is not, as I had been lead to believe, Gill Sans, but instead "Johnston". [via] #
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31 month ago
philgyford : Travel Time Tube Map (Built with Processing) - Not sure how I missed this Tom Carden awesomeness before. Beats other tube maps into cocked hats. (via Haddock)
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : London Underground Anagram Map - Genius! Getting from "Queer Spank" to "Erect Bone" requires a four zone ticket. [via] #
jkottke : London Tube map with anagrammed station names - London Tube map with anagrammed station names.
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32 month ago
Simon Willison : London Underground geographic maps - Generated PNG/SVG files under the LGPL; GPS source data is available.
plasticbag : London Underground geographic maps from the Wikimedia Commons also include significant free geo information - If you're looking to do mapping projects around open geo data, then having a significant data source like the location of all London Underground stations has got to be useful...
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38 month ago
plasticbag : Blogs respond to London blasts - "News of the suspected terror attacks across central London has quickly spread across the net as people try to get information about the chaos. "
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38 month ago
jkottke : Eyewitness photo on Flickr of London tube bombing
plasticbag : London tube bombing on Flickr - Apparently this is a picture from within one of the carriages (or leaving one of the carriages underground)
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39 month ago
plasticbag : London Underground accelerated time disruption map - Get past the post and click on the link to the Quicktime movie at the bottom of the page
Paul Hammond : Whitelabel.org » London Underground accelerated time disruption map - I wrote a script that grabs and saves the disruption map every 10 minutes
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plasticbag : Guardian Review of "The Subterranean Railway" by Christian Wolmar - Thanks to the 2lmc-ers for mentioning this. Key quote: "This new book is an entry-level history of the Underground, and it becomes clear from reading it that the faults of the system were built into it from the moment the first sod was turned."
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