The kids are alright

On London’s absurd anti-anti-social behavior zones.

There’s a curfew for unsupervised under-16s, from 9pm to 6am. Any group of 2 or more people can be broken up and/or that the member of the group have to leave the designated area (if they do not live there). Crucially, police do not have to see actual anti-social behaviour, but a constable in uniform has reasonable grounds for believing that the presence or behaviour of a group of two or more persons in any public place in the relevant locality has resulted, or is likely to result, in any members of the public being intimidated, harassed, alarmed or distressed.

When I checked to see who had bookmarked this, all but one of the seven were already in my network (I’ve since added the outlier, dotx3).

This link is a perfect candidate for becoming a shibboleth (shibbolink?) by which I identify people I might add to my network. If somebody saves this link, there’s a good chance they’re interested in any number of things that also interest me (e.g., geography, mapping, London, and the rights of marginalized groups).

I’ve begun keeping track of similarly distinguishing bookmarks using the shibbolink tag. We’ll see how it goes.

Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space, by Charlie Hailey

The Guantánamo Bay detention camp, Cindy Sheehan’s Camp Casey, the Seeds of Peace Camp, the Post-Katrina Superdome:

The ubiquity and diversity of camps calls for a guidebook. This is what Hailey offers, but it is no ordinary one. Not only does he establish a typology of camps, but he also embeds within his narrative a key to camp ideology. Thus we see how camp spaces are informed by politics and transform the ways we think about and make built environments.

A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: Confident or Delusional?

“Confident writers believe in persistence. Delusional writers believe in talent.”

If I want this in 96pt Rockwell Std Bold, taped to the wall over my monitor, does that make me a delusional writer?

Yeah, I thought so.

tomc's bookmarks tagged Flickr

LCC bomb damage maps: I have only one alert set up in Ebay, to be notified whenever anybody puts up for sale The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-45. Just last year one copy sold for almost $300. The pictures linked here are free and right here on my computer screen. That’s even better than interlibrary loan.

Portishead: Magic Doors Audio DNA 3: A nifty, circular visualization created using Processing.

User Privacy Settings By Geography: A Flickr Study: I’m not sure how this data was collected but if the author’s claim is correct—that each of the map markers represents a sample of one million Flickr users—then it’s a revealing study of online privacy norms.