I have just visited your Islington branch and have a few questions. Why are you playing music in this branch? Are you under the impression this bank is an optional shopping experience, which you seek to enhance, or somewhere that people might visit for leisure? Do you believe that all your customers are under 25, [...]

NSID Afpak meeting, originally uploaded by Downing Street. Check out this photo on Flickr. It’s in the Downing Street Flickr stream and I found myself intrigued by the table furniture. Empty candlesticks and nice water glasses. I would expect nothing less, really, and I wonder how that environment helps to remind the attendees of the [...]

A really lovely piece of animation. (via Alison Bechdel).