Archive for April, 2008

Westminster City Council privatises street sign design

Westminster City Council privatising culture street sign

Westminster City Council has taken a bold step today towards ending the misery of thousands of London tourists each year who buy counterfeit street sign souvenirs. The forward-thinking council has purchased the copyright to the design of its signs, created by notable designer Sir Misha Black in 1967.

The council has promised zero-tolerance enforcement of its new intellectual property, threatening fly-by-night design theives with heavy fines for selling unlicensed souvenirs.

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The fallacies of summary-only RSS feeds

I’m still frustrated and to a degree baffled by all those otherwise-wonderful sites that are serving up RSS feeds with just headlines and summaries. Where are the rest of the articles?

Sometimes this happens through laziness, sometimes with careful thought and intent but mostly through ignorance and fallacy.

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Import file attachments and tags with WXR in WordPress 2.5

The newly-launched WordPress 2.5 (download; release notes; changelog) has got some great improvements to the WXR import feature that lets you pull a file of posts, pages and comments exported from one WordPress installation into another:

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