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Diigo links for 04/30/2012

graybo — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:31:35 +0000

WARNING: Requests for Payment of Fees

Just been on the receiving end of one of these – watch out for it, it’s legal, but only just.

tags: IP fraud WIPO

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graybo — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:31:50 +0000

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graybo — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:32:03 +0000

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graybo — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:32:02 +0000

Sheetlines – non-OS maps

Article about maps by companies other than the OS at scales of 1 inch to the mile or greater. Geekery. Must consider joining the Charles Close Society.

tags: maps history
A brief guide to dating Batholomew maps

Map geekery. I’ve got a beautiful 4 mile to the inch map of Sussex, Surrey and Kent. I reckon it dates from between 1911 and 1921.

tags: maps Bartholomew’s

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graybo — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:32:55 +0000

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graybo — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:31:51 +0000

TMView

EU-wide trademark search, includes WIPO and OHIM databases. Very handy.

tags: europe trademark search database IP
BBC News – Is Brighton the next Maastricht?

No, no it isn’t. (Interesting though for the quote from Mitterand who thought Schengen was in the Dutch Alps. Maastricht is in the “Dutch Alps”, the nickname the Dutch give to the hilly southern province of Zuid Limburg).

tags: news Brighton Maastricht Schengen

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graybo — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:31:28 +0000

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graybo — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:31:34 +0000

Jerwood Gallery by Hat Projects, Hastings | Architecture | Wallpaper* Magazine: design, interiors, architecture, fashion, art

I find the local opposition to the Jerwood puzzling. The new building needed to be sensitive to the surroundings and I think this succeeds. We intend to visit very soon.

tags: gallery architecture design art Hastings Sussex buildings

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graybo — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:32:02 +0000

If there was a Japanese Tron musical, it would look like this

Amazing dance act, with LEDs and darkness and Tron and stuff. Watch. via @girlonetrack

tags: japanese tron musical dance

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graybo — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:33:45 +0000

Mark Farina

Excellent DJ – progressive house, downtempo, jazz, West Coast. All good.

tags: Farina music DJ house

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