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YouTube – The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces – Part 1 "A busy place for some reason seems to be the most congenial kind of place if you want to be alone. The number one activity is people looking at other people." (tags: space ethnography placemaking public urbanism city environment behaviour planning design) On…

The long boozy business lunch If you were invited out to a business lunch, you might, out of sheer misguided politeness, reach towards the bill when it arrived. Just to show willing. Not that you seriously expected to pay. "Inevitably what happened was that the person who had invited you would rush to grab the…

Browser Display Statistics Took people 10 years to get rid of 800×600? (tags: browser resolution stats w3c screen) Does University Challenge really test intelligence? "Fluid intelligence is analysis, maybe doing Sudoku or a Rubik's cube – speed of analysis with problem solving. You don't have to have had an education." Crystallised intelligence on the other…

The Cult of Done Manifesto (tags: manifesto done cultofdone) Jottit A place to put things in the public view (tags: tools notes website free collaboration) Why so many minds think alike "The two leading theories of conformity are that people look to the group because they're unsure of what to do, and that people go along…

A Completely Unscientific (Yet Accurate) Look at Social Sites (tags: funny internet socialmedia visualization digg reddit myspace linkedin)

What's Cooking? The evolutionary role of cookery (tags: cooking food culture anthropology) A foot and a half: Finally, A Use for Twitter Why the real Shaq is awesome (tags: shaq basketball celebrity nba socialnetworking twitter) Seven-Month Slump Seven-Month Slump, The (n.): The point in a relationship when you might begin to feel antsy and annoyed…