[gorjuss] Links for Wednesday, 15th May 2013

[Giles Turnbull]

(Some of these are a week or more old, soz.)

A Postnote from Parliament about "online identity". (PDF, natch)

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/briefing-papers/POST-PN-434

My pal Mike Ellis noodled around with NanoStudio for iOS and made this

https://soundcloud.com/dmje/flight

A landslip at Durdle Door, or Dordle Durr as we sometimes say in these parts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-22355538

Brook's back. Yes he is. But you probably already knew that. Both of you.

http://fadingcity.com/

My lovely friends Caroline and Nick are having their flat gutted and re-built

http://ncrefurb.blogspot.co.uk/

There's been a lot of media talk about construction of the HS2 rail
route from London to the Midlands. I've done quite a lot of travelling
on the HS1 line that runs from St Pancras down into Kent, because my
mum lives at the Kent end of it.

The incredible thing about these lines is how H and S they are. London
to Ashford in 35 mins. To Folkestone, my home town, in about 50
minutes. It's amazing. It's really really quick. Blink as you leave St
Pancras, and before you know it you've looped right through northeast
London and you're swimming under the Thames just past the QE II
motorway bridge. The new stations at Stratford and Ebbsfleet are
interesting too, reminding me of the Canary Wharf Jubilee Line station
in their scale and brutalist execution.

Once HS2 is built and people start using it, there'll be less moaning
and more "blimey" about it all, I suspect. I was chatting to a taxi
driver in Ashford the other day, he told me HS1 had made a huge
positive difference - more business, more people, more activity.

http://highspeed1.co.uk/our-stations/
http://stophs2.org/