We’re all doomed!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7719281.stm

This is good. It’s about not being the kind of extrovert traveler that guide books are written by and for.

We’re also not bed-and-breakfast people, if breakfast with other guests is mandatory. (“Where y’all from?” we joke to each other. The mating call of the B&B guest.) I once read about a B&B where the owner collected antique hats that guests were encouraged to wear to breakfast. Really? That sounds fun to people?

Rings a few bells.

here

Nope, not a post-2012 tube map, but another visualisation. This is “Web Trends 2009″. It’s huge. The state of the Internet according to information architects, Information Architects.

Print it out! Make a board game!

“There’s toys in their millions, all under one roof [in this bonkers visualisation from Wired magazine].”

You name it — abstract algebra, Texas Hold ‘Em … Hangman, Tetris, Columbo. All connected, somehow. No Granny’s Garden, though. People always forget Granny’s Garden.

“it’s only natural that we equip the companies that brought us Police Academy 11, Windows Vista, Milli Vanilli and Celebrity Dancing With the Stars with wire-cutters that allow them to disconnect anyone in the country on their own say-so, without proving a solitary act of wrongdoing.”

From Boing Boing here