in london, you’re never more than 10 feet from a program

The Oyster card is the RFID based payment system for the Tube (subway) network in London. Up until January 2007, i would not allow myself to get an Oyster card. These were my reasons why:

Price-based access enforcement to collective transport networks is a mistake; public transport should tend to be free. Free-riding behaviour isn’t a […]

On re-reading Aramis

Wrote this a few months ago and forgot about it. Is scrappy, but a decent preface to the next post on the stack…
I seem unable to see a copy of Aramis without walking off with it. Frumin’s i returned the next day, Shekhar’s copy i half-advertently whisked 3000 miles away from where it needed to […]