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My two favourite detective series are:
- Bernie Gunther series by Philip Kerr (March Violets is the first) - Marcus Didius Falco series by Lindsey Davis (The Silver Pigs is the first)
They may be a little noirish for your tastes (more focused on character and society) but I loved the detailed historical settings and the level of depth to the detective characters. They're also both still propelled by a mystery / solving a crime.
The UK CEO presented some of their different data capabilities at the agency where I used to work: they were encouraging advertisers to use this data to soundtrack ads.
The different 'shazam'd songs were also connected to locations and user demographics so if you wanted a track that was going to be big in a specific community you could get a good guess.
In fact, those mistakes look more like accurate transcriptions of Early Modern manuscripts - with their looser spelling rules and often idiosyncratic use of letters.
It's kind of interesting that they look like the same errors as those generated by OCR.
The difficulty of deciphering the text makes this huge task even more impressive!
If you're interested in the history of Rinse.fm, check out this article:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/aug/27/rinse-fm-geeneu...
Real Pirate radio for the last twenty years.
I think that off-piste skiing shares the same immersive flow-like experience whilst also being a physical activity.
It's the combination of feedback, decision making and then successful completion of the challenge that really combines to create the feeling.
Thinking of the problem, planning your response, and then executing in quick succession repeatedly.
I think that your exception for Doodle's case is also applicable to this use case and many more: if you're creating a predict-a-score league with your friends, you're going to have to share it immediately.
This can be seen by all of these maps of around this period that are made by Dutch/English/German cartographers that don't show California as an Island, including Munster's very popular one:
This looks nice, although I agree that I would find the scrolling difficult to put up with.
An alternative, focused on travel mainly: http://maptia.com/maptia/stories/the-overview-effect