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My two favourite detective series are: - Bernie Gunther series by Philip Kerr (March Violets is the first) - Marcus Didius Falco series by Lindsey Davis (The Silver Pigs is the fir…

The UK CEO presented some of their different data capabilities at the agency where I used to work: they were encouraging advertisers to use this data to soundtrack ads. The differe…

In fact, those mistakes look more like accurate transcriptions of Early Modern manuscripts - with their looser spelling rules and often idiosyncratic use of letters. It's kind of i…

I've got contrasting reports online about the extent to which there are growing opportunities for start-ups in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Some people paint the city as a backwater - n…

If you're interested in the history of Rinse.fm, check out this article: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/aug/27/rinse-fm-geeneu... Real Pirate radio for the last twenty years…

I think that off-piste skiing shares the same immersive flow-like experience whilst also being a physical activity. It's the combination of feedback, decision making and then succe…

I think that your exception for Doodle's case is also applicable to this use case and many more: if you're creating a predict-a-score league with your friends, you're going to have…

This can be seen by all of these maps of around this period that are made by Dutch/English/German cartographers that don't show California as an Island, including Munster's very po…

This looks nice, although I agree that I would find the scrolling difficult to put up with. An alternative, focused on travel mainly: http://maptia.com/maptia/stories/the-overview-…