Advisory: iOS6 maps on the tube

The London Underground workers made a funny.

(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

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http://twitter.com/Indy_Griffiths Indy

Source: https://twitter.com/utterben/status/249045483253805056
- Kevin Breanach
  
  I think it’s probably from here http://twitter.com/binny_uk/status/248824180395614208/photo/1 originally
http://twitter.com/MrWeeble James Hardy

London Overground, not London Underground
- http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns
  
  just doesn’t have the same ring to it
  - Mike Richards
    
    It does if you’re Wombling free.
    
    That means nothing to anyone who is not a Brit around in the 1970s.
    - http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza
      
      Sure it does. All you have to is remember, remember, remember …
    - http://twitter.com/chriscoreline chris coreline
      
      i thought this knowledge would be quite common by now. we should make good use of this data.
    - http://twitter.com/MrWeeble James Hardy
      
      I am strongly in favour of renaming Tramlink to “Wombling Free” just so trains stopping at Wimbledon station can say “Change here for Underground, Overground, Wombling Free”
    - tHeSmUrF
      
      Not just Brit as the Wombles was also broadcasted in Australia.
      
      To bring back memories http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ2mJPSccvo
http://twitter.com/chriscoreline chris coreline

someone should alert the fire service, or at least an ambulance, that’s a pretty serious burn.
Nick Hayday

You’ll need the map, because the trains are screwed……again
Cormacolinde

For people who have upgraded and find the built-in Maps unusable (like me, since they don’t include bus information for Quebec City), the web version of Google Maps works quite well.
- http://twitter.com/Theranthrope Theranthrope
  
  …and that’s the rub:
  
  CARRY ON
  
  AND USE
  GOOGLE MAPS
  - Warren_Terra
    
    Excellent, but shouldn’t it be:
    KEEP CALM
    
    AND USE GOOGLE MAPS
    
    (or AND CARRY ON WITH GOOGLE MAPS)
http://twitter.com/tadasyoyolt Tadas Jelinek

Master of trolls.
jerwin

Apple solves the Senkaku crisis

I think it will turn out to be close to the real solution. Since the islands themselves don’t matter,only the Exclusive Economic zones that extend from these islands, Japan gets one virtual Senkaku archipelago, China gets the other virtual archipelago, and sea floor gets divided as if there were two island chains: Japan gets half, China gets the other half, which is essentially where we started.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=814903717 Matthew Best

It’s at Hackney Wick London Overground station.
http://twitter.com/samthepea Sam Pourasghar

One London transport staff member makes a funny and chuckles to himself, boss at Apple bangs fist on table and smashes it to bits. “Remove that station from the Universe, NOW!”

Squads of Geniuses march out in perfect synchronisation, karate chopping the air a lot.
- http://www.ashmenon.com/ Ash Menon
  
  This. Needs a theme song, though.
Pat Jennings

It’s always highly enjoyable to see that users are actually willing to give apple some time to improve.