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Doors of Perception weblog: Off-grid water: the social dimension

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"It's a hard ask, but a transition from strictly engineered systems to ecological systems like rain gardens, surface wetlands, restored ponds, and daylighted streams does seem to be happening. The entire water economy is beginning to focus on 'softer' approaches in which closed loop water supply systems are configured, in an integrated fashion, to recover and recycle water, and be net energy producers.
Water professionals now talk about urban landscape and drainage systems designed to mimic the natural hydrological cycle. They aspire to recharge aquifers with reclaimed rainwater, and to return the base and flood flows of streams to their pre-development levels.
The idea now is to integrate utility and land-use decisions to improve water- use efficiency, increase the capture and storage of rainwater, lower overall energy consumption, and reduce pollutant discharges - and to do all this whilst restoring natural ecosystems"

Nokia Bots | Nokia Beta Labs

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Ben Bashford -Design thinking for connected things - My Talking House

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The Most Popular Phone in the World

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This is what the next generation of the mega-selling phone will look like. They'll be rough facsimiles of the high-end smartphones forged for well-heeled buyers, stripped of fat and excess—an embodiment of compromise. They'll be 90% of the phone for 20% of the price, with FM radios instead of digital music stores, and flashlights instead of LED flashes. This is how the other half will smartphone, if you want to be so generous as to call the developing world's users a half. We're not even close.

Charles Yu's top 10 time travel books

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The LAN of Things - Orange Cone

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Subtraction.com: Time Tracking Tweets

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Timeline of things I've done (Phil Gyford’s website)

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Peak oil alarm revealed by secret official talks | Environment | The Observer

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Archipelago | URBAGRAM

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"In these maps, activity on the Foursquare network is aggregated onto a grid of ‘walkable’ cells (each one 400×400 meters in size) represented by dots. The size of each dot corresponds to the level of activity in that cell. By this process we can see social centers emerge in each city."

*openmargin dialogue

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k-punk: Optimistic Melancholia

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"Even as it attempts to photoshop out all negativity, this mandatory positivity is only the other side to capitalist realism's hedonic depression. If nothing else, optimistic melancholia reminds us of a culture with a wider emotional bandwidth."

YouTube - Son Of Bazerk - This Band Gets Swivey On The Wheels

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Just about my favourite hiphop track ever. No-one has ever heard of it.

Why OpenCL will be on Every Smartphone in 2014 - ARM Community Blogs

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Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: No, You Do Not Have to Be A Gamer to Like I...

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If Inception plays especially strongly with a young audience, it's probably because they instinctively grasp its narrative density best, having grown up playing video games. "When it comes to understanding 'Inception,' you've got a real advantage if you're a gamer," says Henry Jenkins, who's a professor of communications, journalism and cinematic arts at USC. " Inception is first and foremost a movie about worlds and levels, which is very much the way video games are structured. Games create a sense that we're a part of the action. Stories aren't just told to us. We experience them."

How Max Headroom predicted my job, 20 years before it existed

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Jugaad: Questions for Santosh Ostwal | The Economist

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SANTOSH OSTWAL, husband and father of two, lost his apartment in 2001 after quitting his job in Pune to solve an engineering problem he’d been thinking about for twenty years. Today his solution – a mobile-phone adaptation that triggers irrigation pumps remotely – is saving water in India and helping more than 10,000 farmers avoid several taxing, dangerous long walks a day. I talked to Mr Santosh for a podcast earlier this year, but it’s worth digging back into the transcript now to help explain the Indian concept of jugaad, an inspired kind of duct-taped ingenuity that employs only the tools at hand.

Erwtenpeller - War of the Worlds - SoundCloud

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Lee Maguire – Diegetic Winks

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k-punk: Hauntology latest

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