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  1. Re:You can take your laptop with you by uglyduckling · · Score: 1 · on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips?

    I would also add the The Design Museum. Pretty geeky but interesting, and if you have any non-geek companions of either gender they'll probably find this interesting too.

    I lived in London for 4 years, I'm pretty sure it never got as low as 4C during the daytime. It's the inner city, not a field in the country. I think you'll find 4C is the average low which would be the middle of the night. Unless it's a really cold December (which doesn't look likely at the moment) a casual jacket will be fine. I'm in the home counties (Kent) and it was 14C today.

  2. Re:Have a great trip! by TheRaven64 · · Score: 1 · on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips?

    If you get an Oyster card then you can use any public transport in London for around £4/day. If you return the card at the end of your trip, you can get the deposit back, or you can hang on to it and lend it to the next person that you know is visiting London.

    Oh, and number one museum recommendation for London is the design museum, where you can see that form and function can coexist.

  3. Re:Have a great trip! by krou · · Score: 1 · on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips?

    Definitely ... taking the water taxi from Embankment to Greenwich is something my mother always does when she visits. It's a great way to see the sites of London.

    I'll add my voice to the chorus for the Science Museum, and also the Natural History Museum. No geek should avoid going to these two! The British Museum is great fun, too.

    Overall, it largely depends on what sort of geeky things you go for. Check out Pollock's Toy Museum if you're into games and construction toys. If you're into trains, check out the London Transport Museum. If you're into military, there's the Imperial History Museum, or the Royal Air Force Museum. The Design Museum is pretty cool, too. If you're into history, checkout the Museum of London, which is a history of the city. Also, the Victoria and Albert Museum is also pretty interesting. More about arts and crafts, though.

    Otherwise, there's also loads of art stuff, like Tate Modern, the National Gallery ...

    Have fun!

  4. In the real world... by xaxa · · Score: 1 · on Redesigning the Stop Sign

    I saw a TV programme about the construction of the British motorways, and they hired designers to make consistent signs for all the roads -- and they came up with a special typeface, chose the best colours, the pictograms etc, and it was so good it's hardly been changed since.

    http://www.designmuseum.org/design/jock-kinneir-margaret-calvert

  5. Re:That's cool! by paskal · · Score: 2, Informative · on Judge Approves Settlement in iPod Suit
    but the fact that you can't change them just plain sucks. To this day, I can't figure out why they did that.


    They're not replacable because it was a design decision made by Ive (and I'm sure supported by Steve). If you have a self-contained battery with a user-proof connection method and a door to cover it all you are not going to be able to achieve the form factor that the iPod has.

    Found a few articles that touch on this briefly:
    http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,69 03,1148182,00.html
    http://www.designmuseum.org/design/index.php?id=63
  6. Re:Flops at Apple are predictable by Queer+Boy · · Score: 1 · on Top 10 Apple Flops
    I hope to hell that he is grooming some manner of successor.

    Their names are Avie Tevanian and Jonathan Ive.

  7. Re:Evil, big monopoly Apple by joltguy · · Score: 1 · on Think Secret's Nick dePlume Revealed

    I've also wondered what will happen at Apple once Jobs leaves. If they were to put Jonathan Ive at the helm, I think they'd do fine. He definitely has the "cool" appeal that Jobs has. I'm not sure about his business sense, but with some Jobs guidance and the right team of advisers around him, that would also fall into place. Only problem with that would be the huge gaping hole it would leave in their industrial design department. Ive is a genius.

  8. for a museum by curator_thew · · Score: 3, Informative · on Huge Console Auction Debuts

    Anyone in London UK can view a selection of games consoles (and, even play some of them, including classic pong) at the design museum as part of Sony's INTERACTION SPACE:

    Rediscover your favourite vintage video games - from Pong and Pac-Man to Tomb Raider - by playing them in the Interaction Space on the second floor of the Design Museum. Visitors can also discover the work of the pioneering multimedia designers who are defining the images we will see on our computer and TV screens in the future in the virtual galleries of the Digital Design Museum. Or they can learn more about the designers, architects and technologies featured at the museum in Design at the Design Museum, our online research archive.

    It would be fantastic if these sorts of consoles could go to a museum to support future exhibitions of this kind.

  9. for a museum by curator_thew · · Score: 3, Informative · on Huge Console Auction Debuts

    Anyone in London UK can view a selection of games consoles (and, even play some of them, including classic pong) at the design museum as part of Sony's INTERACTION SPACE:

    Rediscover your favourite vintage video games - from Pong and Pac-Man to Tomb Raider - by playing them in the Interaction Space on the second floor of the Design Museum. Visitors can also discover the work of the pioneering multimedia designers who are defining the images we will see on our computer and TV screens in the future in the virtual galleries of the Digital Design Museum. Or they can learn more about the designers, architects and technologies featured at the museum in Design at the Design Museum, our online research archive.

    It would be fantastic if these sorts of consoles could go to a museum to support future exhibitions of this kind.