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Next up, Stuart, with his infinitely more poetic Two Bone Eulogy. Remember to press refresh for the full flavour.

I was at the office until well past midnight last night, nursing a printer through the final stages of a submission we’re making for a competition that makes heavy use of previously mentioned design codes. For extra pathos points, I should point out to my international readers that yesterday was supposed to be a statutory holiday in England. Thanks a lot, English Partnerships.

So when I checked my bloglines subscriptions and found that Jack was offering a much needed distraction from urban design, I quickly took up the challenge.

Here’s the story so far. Jack picks up a paper copy of FAC2 by slateford.org (original text: we belong to you). Jack remixes and reissues the paper copy as a web site, thanks to the GNU Public License that’s included with the original. I download the source code and the reworked graphic and publish version 3.

Here’s my issue: we blog you note.

Initially I was planning to work with the graphic itself and manipulate the pencil strokes, then I started to explore the letters and discovered there was more mileage in a collection of acronyms.

W E B E L O N G T O Y O U

Y O U B L O G W E N O T E

I’ve passed you the blogging baton, get running.

ps - comments are back on again, but I can’t make any guarantees as I’ve been blitzed with a lot of spam this week.

As I suspected he would, Bobby H read the map correctly (see comments). Ten points to him. Here’s the answer (quicktime video link).

I found this map today and decided to diagram my interaction with it. The green and blue lines are the marks I made on it. Ten points to the first person who guesses its identity and purpose correctly.

A friend of mine has a fantastic talent for unwittingly mashing up well known phrases. Unbeknown to him I’ve been jotting them down over the last few months. Here are a few of my favourites.

Time period of indeterminate length:

…it’s like waiting for a piece of string…

Warning! Heinous violence towards fruit:

…this is our first stab at the cherry…

Double negative:

…it could be one of my mistyping errors…

Are you a dogsworth?

…I’m the office jobsbody…

The pastry is the key:

…as light as pie…

Do you believe in reincarnation?

…I suspect that one is gonna die a duck…

And finally, my personal favourite because of the image it conjours up:

…Well, we spent the first half of the meeting just finding each others feet…

If you can beat any of those, be sure to add them in the comments.

• Architecture Radio
  

  ‘…Architecture Radio’s mission is to promote learning and discussion about the pressing issues of design and the built environment. We do this by publishing audio/video recordings of important lectures, interviews and discussions on the Internet….’ (v

• Arthur Wyatt - Emigration
  

  ‘…My name is Deakin, I work in emigration. I prevent illegal time travel…’

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• Making the switch to OSX
  

  ‘…Tired of viruses, lost files and the ‘blue screen of death’? In the first of two articles about waving goodbye to Windows, John Dodds switches to Apple’s OSX…’ (via One Man and his Blog)

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• Audlink
  

  ‘… Audlink is a service that lets you put voice messages on the web using your phone….’

• BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - (Ludwig) Mies van der Rohe
  

  6 October 1959 BBC Radio - Mies van der Rohe talks to Graeme Shankland (via Archinect)

• Nick Drake - Time Has Told Me
  

  entire contents of the limited vinyl triple album Time Has Told Me on mp3

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Here’s another example of Muek’s work: Big Boy

• The House That Built a Revolution (washingtonpost.com)
  

  film review - ‘…Wherein Frank Gehry and Peter Lewis Spend a Fortune and a Decade, End Up With Nothing and Change the World…’ (via ArchNewsNow)

• Soul Sides - Can the drummer get some?
  

  ‘…Even when he’s not soloing…he’s soloing…’

• BBC - Religion & Ethics - Beyond Belief
  

  A well presented/chaired discussion on different theological topics, this weeks was about the growing interest in Buddhism in the West

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