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Friday Caption Contest: Mystery Component Edition

Friday Caption Contest: Mystery Component Edition

Before we begin, a jolly big “well done” to all of you who entered last week’s contest. The clear winner was Tlatet, who correctly identified that this was an escaped maths lecturer from the Open University. But most of the rest of you did really quite well, so you have permission to go for...
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Watching A Bike Decompose One Day At A Time

I was in New York in the summer of 2005, and one morning found myself in a bookshop flicking through a book of photos of bikes left locked up on the city’s streets. It showed their decline over time from usable transport, to components, to scrap metal. It was depressing, yet fascinating stuff. Anyway, someone’s...
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Bad Junction Design…

… this via David Hembrow, who explains some of what’s going on far better than I could: It’s interesting as I spent some time today talking to one of our councillors about the importance of changing the built environment if we’re to change people’s behaviour. There’s a whole lot more to be said on this...
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