The Great Distractor — Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy
James has penned a sweeping arc from the The Mechanical Turk, Sesame Street, and Teletubbies to Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
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Progressive Web App for FixMyStreet · Issue #1996 · mysociety/fixmystreet
Here’s a Github issue that turned into a good philosophical debate on how to build a progressive web app: should you enhance your existing site or creating a separate URL?
(For the record: I’m in favour of enhancing.)
Infinitown | A WebGL Experiment by Little Workshop
I reckon this could be the canonical WebGL demo.
And if I’m reading dev tools right, this is all done in 86K.
Photo upload and progressive enhancement for FixMyStreet / mySociety
Matthew describes a very nice bit of progressive enhancement for drag’n’drop file uploads (similar to the CSS Tricks article I linked to recently).
It uses the Dropzone JS which looks like it aligns nicely with the progressive enhancement approach.
SpringForward - A celebration of women in digital and technology - March 2015, Brighton
There’s a whole bunch of great events happening in Brighton this March: Codebar, Curiosity Hub, She Codes Brighton, 300 Seconds, She Says Brighton, and Ladies that UX. Lots of these will be downstairs from Clearleft in Middle Street—very handy!
Tobias Frere-Jones: My Kind of Neighborhood
Some sleuthing uncovers an interesting twist in New York’s psychogeography:
All of the buildings have been demolished, and in some cases the entire street has since been erased. But a startling picture still emerged: New York once had a neighborhood for typography.
Tiny Games for Brighton
Look at the streets of Brighton for some games to play while you’re in town for dConstruct.
The Secret Door - Step Through To The Unknown… | Safestyle UK
Prepare to lose yourself for hours as you keep hitting “take me somewhere else” through these most bizarre and wonderful Google street view locations.
Strassenblickfernweh indeed.
CABINET // Trap Streets
A fascinating piece by James on trap streets, those fictitious places on maps that have no corresponding territory.
Street Ghosts project - Google Street View made Street Art and Public Concern
In the hippest areas for Street Art, life-sized pictures of people found on Google’s Street View are printed and posted without authorization at the same spot where they were taken.
FixMyStreet
Not only is FixMyStreet responsive, it’s using the “display: table-caption” trick I documented for adjustable “content first/navigation second” source order.
A City Like Ours - Street Photography – St. John’s, Newfoundland
I’m in St. John’s right now. Once you start perusing this excellent photoblog, you’re going to feel like you’re there too.
scott_lynch: Against Big Bird, The Gods Themselves Contend In Vain
It turns out that Big Bird is a god-defying instantiation of Moorcock’s Eternal Champion. Magnificent!
Big Bird and Snuffy go with him to stand in the Hall of Two Truths at the gate to the afterlife. The gigantic foam balls on these guys! Sure, Elmo loves you, but when’s the last time Elmo held anyone’s hand on the threshold of eternal night?
ExtendNY - New York City Extended
Sheer brilliance: taking the street grid of Manhattan and extending it to cover the entire world. For the record, I live near the intersection of east 11,303rd avenue and 63,475th street.
Tweeter Street
Portraits of people that tweet, what they tweet, where they tweet.
Yes! It is possible to cross Dublin without passing a pub
Testing James Joyce: this is like the Seven Bridges of Königsberg puzzle but with Guinness.
Jon Rafman
Some of the more unusual moments in time that have been captured by Google Street View. There’s something very Gibsonian about this.
Long Snake City | booktwo.org
Snakes'n'ladders played on the streets of London. Fun!
8-Bit NYC
Nifty old-school 8-bit tiles superimposed on OpenStreetMap data.
Walking Papers
This is wonderful: maps that travel from the internet to the papernet and back to the internet again. Print out from OpenStreetMap, annotate in the real world, and scan the annotated map.