Interesting Links for 02-07-2014

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• Here's How Vancouver Responded to London's "Anti-Homeless Spikes"
  Benches that make the point they're someone's bed and provide cover from the rain, simultaneously directing homeless to shelters.
  (tags: Interesting design clever culture-jamming homelessness poverty charity )
• The train dispatcher who defines what it means to be a gentleman
  "Being nice to the people around you. That is one of the things that is really worth fighting for. Everything else is vanity." As well as this guy being generally awesome, I think it's nice that in a lot of places, there's more room for people to show their own personalities; whenever I'm on a train and the driver has a bit of personality in their announcements, it puts a smile on my face, and makes it a nicer journey.
  (tags: Interesting humanity;-actually-able-to-do-some-awesome-stuff-after-all transport trains )