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London Lies – Part 1 of a Series « London Particulars
"Colonnade was a drink manufactured by Holborn pharmacist G. R. Ferdinand following a trip to the United States in the 1890s. While there, he was intrigued by drinks such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola, marketed both for their thirst-quenching ability and their supposed medicinal properties."
My friend [...]

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The Five Stages of Collapse | Dmitry Orlov
"And so it is with a great many things. We can wait until the lifestyle that is killing the planet and is making us crazy and sick is no longer physically possible, or we can opt out of it ahead of time. And what we replace it with [...]

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Ballardian » ‘Content in their little prisons’: J.G. Ballard on ‘The Towers’
"For example, in cities, the degree of criminality is affected by liberty of movement; it’s higher in culs-de-sac. And high-rises are culs-de-sac: two thousand people jammed together in the air…"
(tags: Ballardian Ballard architecture highrise interview urbanism crime)

Richardsona // Adam Richardson's Blog – Arm & [...]

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Doors of Perception weblog: How dematerialisation adds value
Good idea. It also shows how clever design techniques so often _don't_ depend on having an 'academic' descriptor to be inspired in the first place. 'How dematerialisation adds value' is a great way of phrasing it, but was it ever thought of in those terms when the biscuits [...]

A Brief History of the Future of Urban Computing and Locative Media: PhD Dissertation | Anne Galloway
"The dissertation builds on available sociological approaches to understanding everyday life in the networked city to show that emergent technologies reshape our experiences of spatiality, temporality and embodiment. It contributes to methodological innovation through the use of data bricolage [...]

Going Underground – Capsule carriages
"…a train with individual passenger compartments… "something that everyone manages to do on the Tube without the need for physical walls"… Public transport without all the downsides of it being public." Thanks to Mags L Halliday for the link.
(tags: transport tube underground train design interactiondesign space userexperience personalspace spatial)

Living skins: Architecture [...]

Jesse James Garrett's Hidden Agenda
(tags: design architecturesofcontrol, designwithintent blog jjg aphorisms interactiondesign insights interaction usability)

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Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research : Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Randi and Teller among the authors. [No longer behind paywall: thanks, Cory]
(tags: magic neuroscience psychology misdirection behaviour attention cognitivebias heuristics JamesRandi Teller)

How magicians control your mind – The Boston Globe
"As magicians have long known and neuroscientists are increasingly discovering, human perception is [...]

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INDEX: 2007 – User-centered design & innovation
Interesting writing, but the Issuu interface is completely unusable.
(tags: design interactiondesign userexperience usability usercentreddesign)

Vodafone | receiver » Jan Chipchase: Small objects travel further, faster
"Much of our research started out as an attempt to understand the similarities and differences to what we already knew in order to create products and [...]

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Judgment and Decision Making, Journal
"Relevant articles deal with normative, descriptive, and/or prescriptive analyses of human judgments and decisions. "
(tags: decisionmaking heuristics biases cognitivebias behaviouraleconomics behaviour journal architecturesofcontrol,)