April 2010
19 posts
“The telephone was an aberration in human development…”
– Rick Webb about this (via toldorknown) (via marco)
beachjustice replies:
How is it really that different now that more and more people have a mobile? The bell or buzzer is now in your pocket instead of your living room, but it’s still the same arrangement. The quote implies that the era of the...
“The telephone was an aberration in human development. It was a 70 year or so...”
– ((I feel very, very strongly about this.)) Rick Webb about this (via toldorknown) (via marco)
New TTC Subway Cars delayed →
I was in Boston last year and riding their system, trying to make heads or tail of the map. A guy on the train noticed my confusion and struck up a conversation. In it, he explained in painful details the long string of fuck-ups and bizarre solutions implemented in the system. To get a flavour for it, read how paying for your fare works on the green line.
Summary: Sometimes when you are getting...
“I first made the connection between artists and serial killers soon after I...”
– Star Wars Modern: The Architecture of Serial Killers
“The architectural takeaway: we could build some really awesome fast, cheap,...”
– The Climate Crisis and the favela | Beyond The Beyond
“Nobody who is not immortal has time to read a shovelblog.”
– 3quarksdaily ((I’m currently in the process of rethinking what this Tumblr is for.))
Marco.org: More ideas than time: Last week's news →
The closest heuristic I have to Marco’s idea is watching the Daily Show and listening to More or Less on the BBC. Neither of these necessarily get me the most important stuff (and there’s a massive Canadian gap in my coverage if I stick to this regime exclusively) but they give me a kind of broad overview of what’s sort of important, which suggests avenues for Google searches.
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“Bless him, he sounds harmless enough. At least he didn’t mention bloody...”
– Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he’s from the future - Crave at CNET UK ((The last sentence!))
