17 month ago
jonhicks : Tube Ticket Redesigns - The Serif are collating ideas for a redesign of the London Underground tickets. Go to the homepage and look through the other entries. While you're there, make sure you subscribe if you haven't already, The Serif is a wonderful resource.
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18 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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25 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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25 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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29 month ago
Andy Baio : Pitchfork's 100 Awesome Music Videos - all with embedded YouTube links; I just killed a full hour on this
joshua : Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos - i heard they used to show these on television
plasticbag : Pitchfork presents 100 Awesome Music Videos - All complete with embedded YouTube links so you can actually watch the damn things. Copyright infringement by the megaton, but it's fascinating, beautiful and completely absorbing. I'll be playing with this a lot this evening. Mmm. Classy.
Philippe Janvier : 100 Awesome Music Videos - Oldies but Goodies ! [via] #
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30 month ago
philgyford : London Tube Map With Distance Grids - The conventional tube map with geographic distortions shown by a bendy grid. (via Tom Carden)
Paul Hammond : London Tube Map With Distance Grids - it has a fine grid that shows how far apart the stations are in real life
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30 month ago
plasticbag : London Underground are experimenting with water-cooling and heat-exchange to chill the Underground - Air conditioning the Underground has proven impractical - the tunnels are so far underground...
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34 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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34 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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43 month ago
philgyford : LRB | James Meek : Crocodile's Breath - Fascinating book review of 'The Subterranean Railway', about the London Underground.
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