Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

Gmail has suddenly given me 50 invitations.

It must be ready to go out of beta...

I'm a big fan of TFL's Platform for Art, where what would normally be profitable public transport advertising spaces are used for public art. Sometimes the art is odd, but sometimes you get something that changes your perspective in a big way...

One of the latter is the current exhibition at Piccadilly Circus station.

Called Gold Card Adventures, and is a series of postcard images of places that the artist Ellie Harrison would have visited if the total length of her tube journeys for a year had been somewhere other than across the metropolis. As her site says:

ALL OF THE LONDON TRANSPORT JOURNEYS ELLIE MADE IN A ONE YEAR PERIOD WERE RECORDED. A CUMULATIVE DISTANCE OF 9236.6 KILOMETRES WAS TRAVELLED - THE EQUIVALENT OF TRAVELLING FROM EALING TO SHANGHAI!

...with the seductively lounging giant iPod Shuffle...

( Bathtime iPod sexiness behind the cut. Oh go on, have a quick click. It's work safeish. Well, as safe as a photoshopped pic of a giant iPod Shuffle in a hot tub can be... )

Link found on Gizmodo

Well, we all wondered what BillG would make of the UK press' analysis of the so-called Blair doodles from Davos. Now, thanks to news.com, we know.

Gates also showed his lighter side, poking fun at the doodles he recently left behind at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Handwriting analysts, who thought the sketch was from Tony Blair, said the scribble indicated the writer was either "struggling to concentrate" or "not a natural leader" or "frustrated and tense."

Gates showed a fake copy of his sketch, which had messages like "So hungry--need cheeseburger" and "I miss Clippy."

But then, he was reduced to pad and paper instead of a Tablet PC running OneNote, a note-taking application that Microsoft debuted with Office 2003.

"If I'd had OneNote, it would have been a lot better," he said.

I did wonder why he wasn't using a Tablet...

Who would win: Scott McCloud or a bear? But why ask the collective genius of teh interwebthingy?

(via Neil Gaiman)