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Or: Playing Nicely With Others A couple of weeks ago, a new project on GitHub was mentioned on the Infrastructure Club Slack: WhatCable, with the word “YES” being followed by a bunch of discussion. It solves a problem that many of us have: knowing what a USB C cable can do.USB C is the ubiquitous connector, which is great, but the actual cables can support anything from USB 2 speeds (480 megabits per second) up to Thunderbolt 5 (one direction can go up to 120 gigabits per second), and power…

pretty-little-fools: Hatton Cross Underground station, Piccadilly line by J Wender, 1976, from the London Transport Museum’s collection.

blech: Ralf Obergfell - Photographer - both the fountain and the Routemasters are gone now. Photo from the Last Stop section (I’d link to it directly, but there’s some boneheaded JavaScript that goes into an infinite redirect loop…) The link in my original post doesn’t work any more, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that not only is the page still there, just at a different URL, but that it contains PDFs of the book, split into five sections: Intro, Depot, En Route, Aboard, Last Stop.As…

metrocentric:Windsor Road / East Tyndall StreetCaerdydd / Cardiff

One of the main features I wanted for the ffffound archive serving site was automated tagging, because it was missing entirely on that site (as it is on Pinterest and others that followed it). That’s great for simplicity in saving, but it’s not so good for discovering what’s in there.Tumblr does have tagging, so it’s tempting to think this isn’t as important for the likes archive. It’s true that tags are possible, but not everyone uses them, and what the reblogger (or creator) tags something…

Two screen prints by Gerd Winner: Underground Holborn and Underground Highbury and Islington, both from 1972.

leftoverlondoner: I promised you a little more from the marvellous Gerd Winner. Here’s Red Arrow Bus from his seven-strong 1970 ‘London Transport’ series at Tate Britain. That full series at Tate’s website.

leftoverlondoner:I’ve posted one of Gerd Winner’s New York views here before, but I didn’t realise that he has also produced a large body of London work too. Very good it is too. Above, Thames Sunday Afternoon I from 1972 and currently for sale here, and below, from Tate Britain and a year earlier, London Docks II: Metropolitan Wharf.Another winning Winner to follow later.

lisamarie-vee: Containers - four from a series of (at least) five screen prints by Gerd Winner.

A couple of years ago, I wrote some code to display my archive of images from ffffound, an image bookmarking site, with the ability to filter by date and generated tags. That’s not the only place where I have a huge archive of images, though - among them, there’s also Tumblr.Of course, Tumblr has fairly decent archives and tag navigation pages, so it’s not a problem for my main blog. What it is lacking, however, is any sort of similar interface for likes - the FAQ page says so explicitly.Likes…

dinosaurspen: This is from an article about Eliot Noyes, known for his work at IBM, which contains this anecdote:Serving in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, Noyes was assigned to the Pentagon glider program. (5,500 glider pilots got their wings, of the only 1,000 expected.)Noyes had trouble getting Pentagon brass, who preferred loud guns to silent gliders, to pay attention to the program. Recognizing that military officials read the comic strip “Terry and the Pirates” regularly, he wrote…

Kyoko Iwasaka’s napkin sketch of the dismantled Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, winner of Architectural Record’s Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest in 2023.

Girl holding a cat on Southam Street, W10, by Roger Mayne, at the Museum of London. (There’s also a blog post with more London cats.)From Jessie Wender’s coverage of the exhibition of his works at the Gitterman Gallery, 2012:I told Mayne that I was struck by the prevalence of children in his work. “I was drawn to the poorer areas, and there the children were very much in evidence,” he said. “The street was their playground. They were keen to be photographed, and the first photograph had to be…

ALTALTTwo photographs of Leeds in the late 1950s by Roger Mayne from a 2012 exhibition at Gitterman Gallery.

Geometry of Light, an installation from 2019, by Luftwerk (Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero) and MAS Studio, illuminating ‘Dawn’ (Alba) by Georg Kolbe in the German Pavilion, Barcelona, designed by Mies van der Rohe for the International Exhibition, 1929.

San Francisco bus stops, from the series After Hours by Thomas Winz.

Poster, Höchstspannungsleitungen; Designed by Robert Probst; USA; Gift of Various Donors; 1981-29-221, at the Cooper Hewitt museum.Found on The Tenth Muse, an explorer of art from a number of museums (via kottke). Unfortunately, it doesn’t work in Safari, but it’s worth a browser swap for a little exploration.