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World Metro Map by Mark Ovenden

Originally uploaded by Annie Mole

This is a map I’ve just found on Flickr even if it’s quite old news (sorry).

It’s the metro map of the world and that’s so amazing. I do leave in a city with a dense metro system, and looking at this map make my brain start planning some exotic trips the same way I plan my high street shopping

This map is a powerful mind stimulator, kudos to Mark Ovenden.

Londoners will obviously recognize that the network diagramme is based on the London underground tube map:
the topology is almost intact and you can easily identify the central line and the circle and the others where there are supposed to be

It’s also made twice nicer as: Transport For London guards jealously the copyrights on their data (making tube map/status based creations rare and dangerous) and this one is available with a Creative Commons licence!

A compilation of alternative accommodation, trendy because labelled as “green”.
I actually like the Loft Cube (too easy to mispronounce as ‘Love Cube’) , and if installed on the rooftop of a London building, the views from all side must be amazing and I quite see myself in such dwelling. It’s not expensive, especially compared to London prices.
It also happens that the first Loft Cube has been installed in London, on the 8th storey of a building near Tate Britain …
Now, if only the cube could come with an instruction manual on how to approach local authorities and building management companies …


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Kangaroo Men Tryptich

Originally uploaded by Rija 2.0.
I’ve spent Sunday afternoon in Little Venice taking photos with a friend.
While we were having fun around the Paddington basin, these two men came past us chit chatting with each other and moving themselves smoothly. But what they had on their feet was odd and the moved with a slight bounce. It was cool to see.

The only time I saw these things before was in an advert for Zurich insurance company.

I don’t even know what’s the name. It would help if I want to pursue the idea of acquiring a pair of them

On Tattum’s blog, there are a collection of video clips filmed in Madagascar as part of the Other Places project by Tsuyoshi Tokunaga.
The aim of the project is to portray through video the city life in various places (so far visited: Sri Lanka, East Turkestan, Madagascar).

I was born in Madagascar, so it was with the emotion that I’ve enjoyed each of these videos. Their artistic quality helped too.

It is like watching a slideshow of superb photso in which each shot decided to cross the boundary of still image and to have a life of its own.

Looks like you’d better stay away from the game system of from the owners for that matter:

• Store robbed of five PS3s
• Violence ensues during PS3 launch
• US$89m for a PS3 on ebay
• Man shot in PS3 queue

Amazing. I’ve found 3 abandoned tube stations in my area.

A fascinating site with many pictures detailing disused and ‘lost’ stations on the London Underground Network.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5058362.stm

(via plasticbag.org)

Update:

Here PC doesn’t stand for Police Constable

While I’m on the subject (London Underground),
there’s a game in town which aim is to guess animals shape by reading the London underground map. I heard about that last year may be and didn’t give any attention until I found myself (thinking of) spotting a kind-of animal-ish shape while looking at the map.
Of course I dismissed such a though instantly blaming the usual suspects (tiredness, end-of-the-day-syndrom, drunken-state, put-your-own-excuse-here,…)

And then I found this web site.
Ok, am I reinsured?
not sure,
let’s say yes, it’s so more fun that way.

Unfortunately I’ve never come across these signs in the London underground.
I guess I would have (almost) died laughting rolling on the floor otherwise:

http://www.thenofoundation.com/project1.htm

source: http://london-underground.blogspot.com