Unto the City the Wildlife Did Journey - New York Times
ShiftSpace: A Proposal for [the next idea] by Dan Phiffer
An argument that we are entering a second middle ages, originally from Foreign Affairs. Interesting piece that could be better. It's an argument I've tossed around in my head myself, but ultimately concluded is far more interesting only if you factor in not just the similarities but the huge differences as well.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The death of Wikipedia
I'm curious as to the motivations behind making the $100 laptop look like a cartoon devil...
BLDGBLOG: Interview with Mike Davis: Part 1. In which Davis reveals he wrote his whole book on worldwide slums on his porch without any visiting of anyplace... Much as a love reading his work I think that pretty much cements his status as a science fiction author, not the non fiction one he fronts as. His vision is powerful and worth reading, just doesn't have a huge amount to do with reality...
AIGA - Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism
suchman-anthropology-as-brand.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Marketing Babylon » Blog Archive » The top 12 sins of Marketing Gurus (and their books)
collision detection: Gorgeous 3D sculpture illustrates the internal symmetry of formal logic
collision detection: France to release a balance-the-national-budget video game
pivotgraph.pdf (application/pdf Object), Martin Wattenberg research on multivariate graphs, as usual great stuff from him.
sai sriskandarajah | the waste land, this is a great piece from ITP, was sort of funny to stumble across it online.
Data Mining: A New Model for Scientific Publication
Design Altruism Project » Blog Archive » Bruce Mau and the Apotheosis of Data
IMAGE WAR: Contesting Images of Political Conflict
Economies of Design and Other Adventures in Nomad Economics
Small Groups, Big Ideas on the Gore, "flat" workplace culture.
YouTube - The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: One interface to rule them all, a good article with a title that sounds strangely familiar.
“You must be logged in to do that!”: Myspace and Control
BLDGBLOG: Architectural Criticism is a great read, time permitting I'll have some comments on this soon.
The Observation Man, a William H Whyte interview from 1986
"Is youTube the new Amazon, the new eBay, or the new mySpace?"
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: It Takes a Nation of Lawyers to Hold Us Back
Stephen Colbert's monologue at the White House Correspondents Dinner, as close to a must read/view thing around lately, its a good routine but to do it in front of both Bush and the entire DC press corp is incredible.
"Fox News gives you both sides of every story: the president's side, and the vice president's side."
John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, Dies; Economist Held a Mirror to Society - New York Times, may he rest in peace.