February 2010
28 posts
“A sovereign entity does not have to be a country.”
– Sovereign Military Order of Malta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Mapping is a prerequisite for understanding.”
– Nicola Twilley & Sarah Rich interviewed in Urban Omnibus » Food and the Shape of Cities
“The country is currently better suited to cars than to communication.”
– Clive Thompson to Texters: Park the Car, Take the Bus | Magazine
“Engineers are six times more likely to be terrorists than they ought to be.”
– collision detection: Paper explains how the “engineering mentality” produces terrorists
“Just so you know, this is none of our doing…apparently, DMCA operate on...”
– Music Journalism is the New Piracy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
“First assemble together a fleet of self-propelled, subterranean dirigible.”
– Pruned: Sewer Zeppelins for the Era of Infrastructural Anarchy & Other Roman Tales
Format for your medium.
All of the characters used for placing the message in a context on Twitter are noise now. They aren’t clickable, They don’t make any sense. They don’t refer to anything (there is no @chr1sa on Facebook). They may as well be assembly code. Why are you polluting your Facebook stream with assembly code?
((I’m starting a movement.)) Unlink Your Feeds
“That Tschichold has an origin story—usually reserved for patriots, presidents,...”
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Letters from the Hellbox.
“Helicopters fighting spring, not wildfires/drought, is “a defining image”...”
– Twitter / Alexander Trevi
“What I am most interested in is the fullest set of circumstances that I can...”
– Inventing Green « What History Can Bring to (Green) Technology
“Want to see the city of the future? Start looking for machines to replace.”
– Worldchanging: Bright Green: De-Industrializing the City
“No one knows what it would mean for us if we really do live in a hologram, yet...”
– Our world may be a giant hologram - space - 15 January 2009 - New Scientist
“Of course, Darpa’s up against some vexing, fundamental laws of nature — not to...”
– Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included | Danger Room | Wired.com
“There is very little about the monstrous beach ball cell that we do know.”
– ((It might even farm bacteria for food.))Zoologger: ‘Living beach ball’ is giant single cell - life - 03 February 2010 - New Scientist
“The bulk of humanity doesn’t want a computing experience it can tinker with; it...”
– Flash, iPad, Standards – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report