search term advertising, is the company bragging about their placement?
Podcasting: A new technology in search of viable business models
Pruned: Litter-Free Landscapes and The Politics of Pollen
Creativity Now - Oct. 15-16, 2005, new moderators, thank god! lineup isn't on the level of the last two though, might hit the sunday lineup.
Pruned: Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River
Reporters sans frontičres - Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents
collision detection: A bioterror attack in World of Warcraft
The Prudent Investor - seeing too many bubbles: USA: The 3rd World Is Only A Few Blocks Away
wayne&wax: shocklee is a prophet and i think you oughta listen to
Jerry Saltz, Battle for Babylon, his annual state of the NY art world piece...
George Bush Doesn't Like Black People - The Legendary K.O. a/k/a K-otix
lemon-red: Y’all can’t see me — Ray Charles. that's the birdcall
Call for Short Papers: New Orleans and Other Urban Calamities - Space and Culture Special Issue
The Uses of Disaster (Harpers.org), Rebecca Solnit on New Orleans.
Atchafalaya
by John McPhee, two decade old New Yorker article on controlling the Mississippi in southern Louisiana.
This Blog Sits at the: Who owns the future of marketing
» What is Web 2.0 | Web 2.0 Explorer | ZDNet.com and for the record, if my take is going to be boiled down to a Hollywood pitch then: Web 2.0 = the professional web
apophenia: Why Web2.0 Matters: Preparing for Glocalization
Alan Dershowitz: Telling the Truth About Chief Justice Rehnquist - Yahoo! News
"It seems to me, though, that successes usually come from a mixing of top-down and bottom-up approaches. Computer networking is a great example. On the bottom-up side you have all the wonderful (and some not-so-wonderful) entrepreneurs who have created services like these blogs. But don’t forget the top-down contributions! Networking was invented by a big government lab (ARPA.)"
antipopper: new orleans: whiteness and the limits of the western diaspora
Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? - Anne Rice in the times
Think Progress » By the Numbers: In Katrina's Wake, Race and Class Still Not Being Addressed
"Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans?
* Acess [sic] to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities and while we are in constant contact with them, we simply cannot enter New Orleans against their orders"
Army Times - Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans
At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google." ....
Thereafter, Mr. Ballmer resumed trying to persuade me to stay....Among other things, Mr. Ballmer told me that "Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards."
So much loaded in their, ultimately its that house of cards remark that grabs my interest...
Wired 13.09: The Dream Factory, Clive Thompson on one off fabrication
New Orleans mayor on the bullshit and spin of administration. (audio/mpeg Object)
a black rainbow over downtown New Orleans.- - -- tobias c. van Veen in prime form
a 128 page pdf on design process, pretty good at least for the 36 pages I skimmed..
a friend has a new anonymous blog on the NY to London trend forecasting sort of tip, please enjoy.
Telegraph | Money | Chirac backs eurocentric search engine