building signage/typography
preservePreserve is on going project to produce a permanent visual record of hand painted building signage. Many of these are being erased from our cityscapes either being worn away by weather over time, covered as buildings have been repainted, disappearing as buildings are demolished or replaced with modern signage equivalents...
Tokyo's film cameras
tokyo camera styleWe are at the point where people who shoot film do simply because they choose to, and the Photo Culture of Tokyo is full of film camera users. When I meet them out on the streets I'll ask to photograph their camera, and post it here.
helps to manage history/cookies
Close'n forget Firefox extensionNotes:
Set options before using. Also, it appears to affect [back] button functionality.
UK government is watching you!
Social network sites 'monitored' – "It is part of a plan to store details of all phone calls, e-mails and websites visited on a central database..."dealing with targeted ads
Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out (TACO) Firefox extensionSets permanent opt-out cookies to stop targeted advertising by 28 different advertising networks, including Google/Doubleclick and many other members of the Network Advertising Initiative.
Please read the "Long Description" before installing this add-on, for important note regarding privacy settings in Firefox.
Related Information: Developer's Homepage
Note: This is not an endorsement.
'resisting the temptation'
NegativityIt’s incredibly hard to ignore the toxic whirlwinds of negativity that crop up all the time in online communities...
unbelievably true
Twitter whoring goes mainstreamTwitter is an opt-in communications channel. People who follow John Mayer do so because they are interested in him or his music. If they were interested in Campbell’s Soup, they would have subscribed to a Campbell’s feed (if they actually have one). The message from Campbell’s was commercial in nature and unsolicited. And that equals spam.
