horreo.org - stuart mudie wanders the web

May
12th

Wed

Carfree Cities and Carfree Design Manual propose a delightful solution to the vexing problem of urban automobiles

— Carfree Cities

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May
11th

Tue

Generation Y is a Blog inspired by people like me, with names that start with or contain a “Y”. Born in Cuba in the ’70s and ’80s, marked by schools in the countryside, Russian cartoons, illegal emigration and frustration. So I invite, especially, Yanisleidi, Yoandri, Yusimí, Yuniesky and others who carry their “Y’s” to read me and to write to me.

— Generation Y

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May
10th

Mon

OS RESENTIDOS - Galicia sitio Distinto (completo) (via mgmanu2)

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OS RESENTIDOS - Galicia Canibal (Fai un sol de carallo) (via mgmanu2)

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SINIESTRO TOTAL … MIÑA TERRA GALEGA (via camboyano)

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May
6th

Thu

The films of award winning director Ken Loach…in full on YouTube for the first time.

— YouTube - Ken Loach

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Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses to contain no Latin characters.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to have so-called “country codes” written in Arabic scripts.

The move is the first step to allow web addresses in many scripts including Chinese, Thai and Tamil.

— BBC News - ‘Historic’ day as first non-latin web addresses go live

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May
5th

Wed

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi is the most outspoken of the four men who founded BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay in Sweden in 2003… Sunde has been in London this week in his self-appointed role as ‘activist’, and while here, he caught up with El Reg.

— Pirate Bay co-founder hopes it will die • The Register

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May
4th

Tue

Scots is now on a UNESCO list of endangered languages and it was Scotland’s education system that put it there.

— Use it or lose it

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eames (by isofoto)

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