August 2010
Attracting Stairs: 10 Extremely Elevating... →
The fire at King’s Cross St. Pancras station started beneath a wooden escalator built shortly after the Second World War. Following the tragedy, most of London’s wooden escalators were removed and replaced; some of the last remaining ones can be seen (and ridden) at Greenford Station.
+ Spiral, Staggered, Narrowest Escalators
“Researchers marked a line with yellow duct tape across the width of shopping...”
– Grocery experiment provokes healthier purchases (via caseyagollan)
What I Learned Today: amazing effects of music →
Interesting piece in the WSJ recently about the amazing effects of music. Here are some of the findings:
Listening to Bach, Corelli, and Mozart is more effective in treating mild depression than is talking to a psychiatrist. per a study published in The Arts in Psychotherapy (more)
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“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium...”
– Brian Eno, predicting the future, in 1995
(via tedr, glenda)
(via caseyagollan)
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aKun: “Eight years ago I got in line for a cashier... →
“Eight years ago I got in line for a cashier at the local Sainsbury’s. In front of me was a small blond-haired boy, filled with the joys of a carefree life, a lifetime of discovery and adventure ahead of him. On the slidey rubber mat was his only selection: two fun-sized packets of Haribo Starmix;…
Hmm, so I think my queue broke. The 64 posts I had in the queue have all been posted today. Bummer.
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Scofflaw Insurance For Subway Freeloaders →
For about $8.50 a month, those who join one of these raffish-sounding mutuelles des fraudeurs can rest easy knowing that, if they get busted for refusing to be so bourgeois as to pay to use public transit, the fund will cough up the money for the fine.
