Links for Wednesday December 9th 2015

London Underground Station Design Idiom
One to read in depth when I have the time. Because I'm a nerd.

Links for Friday December 4th 2015

Study Finds Quitting Facebook Makes You Happier and Less Stressed | HUH.
I would generally agree with the results of this study, but I definitely differ in some specifics – the finding that people without Facebook have a more active social life is definitely not my experience, although I would agree that the *quality* of my social life improved without it.

wordpress – WooCommerce show custom column – Stack Overflow
How to add a custom column to a woocommerce orders page. Move along really nothing at all to see here.

Cope « Nerdcon, authorship, and the problem with games
This is of some interest to me, almost from the point of view of my own internal monologue. I have a number of friends who are professional writers of one stripe or another, and I tend to in some sense, mentally rank myself "below" them as a creator, because what I mostly create these days is narrative games – LARP. (NB: this is *entirely* about my view, not theirs, and *entirely* about the media we work in, not us as people.) I have an internal sense that my storytelling medium is less "prope…

Did the tube strike improve London’s economy?
Interesting article, making the point that tube strikes have more of an effect on commuters than simply annoying people on the day, and that effect may not be entirely negative.

Raspberry Pi Bluetooth In/Out Board or “Who’s Home”
I want to be able to have my Raspberry Pi track my presence in the house – this has a load of links to useful libraries.
uncannymagazine.com
An interesting deconstruction of nerd masculinity.

Light
A new kind of camera, that alleges it can replace about $6000 worth of DSRL gear (in terms of body+lenses) for about $1200. If this is true, and they live up the quality claims they're making, than I will be getting one ASAP, because it looks superb.

Edward Snowden: we may never spot space aliens thanks to encryption | US news | The Guardian
I missed this a couple of weeks back, but this is a fantastic solution to the Fermi paradox. Any sufficiently advanced communication is indistinguishable from cosmic background radiation…

Frankfurter Brett :: The kitchen workbench – Frankfurter Brett
I've a feeling I've linked to this before, but I can't find it. In any event: *want*.