January 2011
21 posts
“Our buildings don’t lie. They show we are paying a heavy price - in...”
– Cityscapes: The Moscow airport attack: Now architects have to worry about airports themselves becoming terrorist targets
“Contemporary political discourse is looking at a camel with a broken back &...”
– I got some opinions. Twitter / @Tim Maly
Skeumorphs
With the Frankenpine [cell phone towers which mimic tree forms] thriving, it is possible to speculate on an urban future in which thousands of artificial trees might be deployed throughout the city: on streets, in malls, and in our office landscapes. In the next generation of office or mall equipment, we may see new tree-machines proliferating amongst this landscape—providing wireless...
For Sufficiently Small Values of 'Permanent'
A post about ephemera, link rot, and archives.
This will take a little bit of setup.
We begin with a link posted to Twitter by Jay Rosen:
If You Didn’t Blog It, It Didn’t Happen http://jr.ly/6j67 I’m with you on this, @anildash. We owe it to our ideas to give them a fixed home.
Anil Dash’s post is about the importance of putting your clever/important ideas in a medium...
“Is there a business model for The Singularity, or is it going to be like...”
– Quora really needs a tag for “question packs in an average of three untested assumptions per word” - Quora
