June 2009
35 posts
“pseuicides”
– The death bloggers
If Plants Had Culture →
photo credit: lrargerich
((An incomplete idea))
Begin with the idea of seeds as dense packets of shippable information. Seeds contain (self)assembly instructions….
Watch((Lame parkour clips video? No! This puts parkour back in an architectural space, which was the appeal in the first place.)) SAMPARKOUR on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Steve Brill’s News Cartel - A Consumer’s... →
Steve Brill, entrepreneur, law writer, founder of Court TV and recently defunct CLEAR is trying to save journalism by reversing the trend of free news online. He gave a briefing today and while…
War Book reveals how Britain planned to cope with... →
((Fiction project: 1) Get ahold of this. 1) Make books/comics/movies set in a world where the plan unfolds.))
Dubai’s Palm Islands. Waiting to be drowned by the... →
((Below emphasis is mine))
2007: Developer ensures islands will be safe from rising sea levels
Nakheel, which is the developer of The Palm islands and The World, says it followed…
“A digital magazine is something I can read on a netbook or, especially, a phone....”
– Warren Ellis » On Digital Magazines
Seeds- Shippable information →
“I think, when you’re in your intellectual infancy, myth keeps your sane.”
– Nathan Bedford Forrest Has Beautiful Eyes - Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Gyre →
This is a review of a documentary.
When I first heard about the Garbage Patch in the North Pacific Gyre, I thought about Neale Stephenson’s Snow Crash. There’s this refugee raft city, cobbled…
“Between 2000 and 2007, internet subscribers per 100 people in low-income...”
– ICT stat of the day - PSD Blog - The World Bank Group
“In fact, generational turnover is the biggest killer of aging revolutions. We...”
– Gwynne Dyer: The rules for street demonstrations are different in Iran | Straight.com
“But this time everything turns out differently. The policeman shouts, but the...”
– Michael J. Totten: Insurrection: Day 2
“In the absence of stem rust, it would not be the highest-yielding wheat,”...”
– A ‘time bomb’ for world wheat crop - Los Angeles Times
Adventures in Latex and Silicone - The Atlantic... →
((Just for the slideshow, this is really neat and worth watching. Designers ask a series of questions and the result is something that feels both obvious and totally unexpected.))
“Phoenix is “gaining notoriety as the kidnapping capital of America” as Mexican...”
– By The Time I Get To Phoenix I Will Be Tortured In Some Cheap Foreclosure | The Awl
“It’s hard to talk about censorship because the word for censorship gets...”
– Censorship on Tiananmen Anniversary Cripples Chinese Net | Threat Level | Wired.com
“For this kind of person, who is deeply moral and not terribly imaginative, this...”
– London House Siege - Latest News | Nick Harkaway
“Let’s rush: If we don’t, the company and world will perish.”
– Gizmodo - Canon Employees Are Forbidden to Sit Down, Walk at Normal Pace
“Someone should write a history of all the quarries from which Rome’s...”
– Twitter / bldgblog
“When we discuss about the world we just use mindsets, we don’t use data...”
– Hans Rosling on BBC - Today
DRM: The Fight Against Posterity →
Check out this article on Ars Technica about law prof. Patricia Akester’s study examining the effects of DRM on the legal use of copyrighted works. As you’re reading it, bear in mind that due to…
“We should all be very skeptical of … the general practice of socializing...”
– ((Lawrence Lessig puts his finger on what I hate about the boom/bust/bailout cycle.)) Et tu, KK? (aka, No, Kevin, this is not “socialism”) (Lessig Blog)
almost.at →
((A peak at the future of realtime search? The interface is pretty good scrolling streams of information.))
