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Fake street features are fairly hard to find, and we really have no idea how many there are. Fake streets, purpose mis-spellings and phantom churches are all thought to exist.

OpenStreetMap: Maps that Lye

< Testgatan is ‘Test Street’ in Swedish (picture from Map24.dk via Just-blog)

Just-blog: Small area in Denmark disclosed as Swedish property

Related: Dislocation: Cut-Up Cartography

Who owns the picture? Is it the person who took the photograph or the person who paid for the picture to be taken? and what rights does the person in the picture actually have?

Kris and Roland are XML Conference 2005 in Atlanta representing and presenting. Roland spoke on RSS Remixing Past, Present and Future (PDF) and Kris is giving a Bryght overview talk tomorrow. We’ve had great conversations about Bryght and Drupal with the

Keio University has engineered the prototype of an electronic bookshelf. Called BiblioRoll, the device consists of three LCD displays in a transparent tube and aims to help readers who need to browse through several books, pick up ideas which could be a cue from each of them, and reconstruct them to come to the answer they search for.

Users can rotate a circumference of the device to display see different information on each tier. They can, for example, choose a book’s cover from the top screen and display different part of its contents on the other two LCDs.

The developers aim to complete 15 cm high product by 2010, its flexible display will use electronic paper or organic EL. The current prototype is much larger.

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Image via japundit.

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Recent visit to the Renzo Piano extension to the High Museum & Woodruff Centre. Original works by architect Richard Meier.

kk+ posted a photo:

The economic vectors of anything are often the main drivers and this must ultimately be true in the case of recycling, but occasionally the geometry can be a more spectacular thing.

The cubes, about 38 cm³, are scrap metal highly compressed under what must have been a terrific force to behold. They’re stacked to a height of almost 3 metres, an inadvertent public sculpture.

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I first encountered Emigre when I was a wee undergraduatelet, at issue 32 (above left), at the height of my fascination with all things that looked like they came from Vaughan Oliver and v23. Hey, it was the 90s, and I loved the Pixies.

Like the Pixies, it was a creative endeavor that wanted beauty unencumbered by commerce. Like the Pixies, it never successfully proposed a solution to this tension, it just held the tension for the term of its existence, safe in its world. Yet it was extraordinarily beautiful.

Now, I had to be told by a diligent under-25yo that Emigre has departed, at issue #69 (above, right). Long Live Emigre!