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   (2004.06.13)

‘Details’ protestors are *such* a bore

   (2004.06.13)

This is, if memory serves, our third lesson in why Windows and Internet Explorer are unreliable platforms for unattended signage.

Plasma display shows Windows dialogue boxes and error messages and, in the system tray, 20-odd Explorer icons
   (2004.06.13)

This kind of emergency planning is too complicated. Nobody’s gonna remember what REACT stands for when the room is filled with toxic smoke. By the time you get to the wall to read this instruction card, if that is even possible under the conditions, either you will have successfuly removed occupants, enclosed area, and activated alarm or you will have not – and it’ll be too late to go back and try again.

Warning sign lists instructions ‘In case of FIRE’ and gives codewords to use ‘In case of emergency’; ‘Code brown’ means ‘hazardous spill’

Curiously, “code brown” has another meaning in the lore of medical residents.

   (2004.06.13)

Fabulously futuristic colour, self-replicating visual instructions (with copy errors, actually) – in short, everything you’re looking for in a towel dispenser.

Towel dispenser with bright-blue translucent cover and two sets of instructions
   (2004.06.13)

I love these sorts of segmented displays. In fact, I’m kicking myself that I can’t find the article in an old Wallpaper<asterisk> about a London artist who does nothing but colour-field experiments.

Windows wrapping around a bus bay glow orange from the plastic batting that covers them

Or I could just look at the background image at Somnolent.

   (2004.06.13)

I went for a visual-field test last week to rule out glaucoma. (There is no evidence I have it. We merely have inconclusive evidence I do not.) The office is in the middle of nowhere in the labyrinthine hospital. Since some people heading there will have deficient visual fields, is a homemade, home-corrected sign tacked up on a side wall where you wouldn’t be looking anyway something that makes sense?

Laser-printed sheet with handwritten room-number corrections: ‘Visual fields & eye photography →→→ Turn to your right’
   (2004.06.13)
Square holes punched in plywood construction wall behind fence. Orange plastic batting peeks through the holes. Yellow CAUTION tape streams up to the fence top
   (2004.06.13)
Front-left silver wheel and massive tire of parked black Rolls-Royce

And the kicker? This $400,000 car carried a disabled-driver permit, too!

Disabled parking permit under windscreen

Funny, I didn’t know so many millionaires could drive but not walk!

   (2004.06.12)

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