Feature Presentation, James Surowiecki on feature creep in The New Yorker
Old School Messenger on Letterman in the 80's, under a truck!
How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community By Cory Doctorow,
Leaving a big mess on campus - Los Angeles Times "After final exams and graduation every spring, America's college campuses become astonishing junkyards of abandoned stuff — providing, some say, a snapshot of a generation of students raised in a throwaway culture."
And as a bonus they highlight my alma mater...
Index of MaisonMartinMargiela, pretty much a rip off (or homage to?) of the OG Helmut Lang site, but that was one of the all time best sites in my book so....
For what it's worth a few years ago I got half way through building a portfolio site entirely in apache, no html, no flash, just modded directories and images, should finish that thing....
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Long player, Carr on David Weinberger's, Everything Is Miscellaneous. Like Carr I started reading this, and yeah Weinberger started losing me at the exact same point. I did make it half way through though and the book is pretty much ok. I don't actually disagree much with it's premise, what's in there is generally semi right, but what's missing tells a whole other story. Weinberger's got some serious rose colored glasses, and funnily enough the stories he tells make his little tech elite culture into heroes... More hopefully when I finish the thing.
Why Work Is Looking More Like a Video Game - New York Times
Reaping Results: Data-Mining Goes Mainstream - New York Times
Estonia accuses Russia of ' waging cyber war'-News-World-Europe-TimesOnline
Koolhaas, Foster clash over ‘similar’ designs - Building Design
What Else Is New?: How uses, not innovations, drive human technology. The New Yorker review of "The Shock of the Old", about a quarter way into this book myself and not quite sure how I feel, it seems rather obvious, but sometimes the obvious really needs to be said...
The Açaí Evangelist, my cousin Noah Landes writing about acai and the food politics of rainforest fruit. He definitely got me addicted to the stuff, I've been eating it every day for the past couple weeks, no lie. It's sort of like blueberries merged with chocolate, damn good stuff...
MASH SF World Premiere long time coming! when is NYC?
Global Guerrillas: JOURNAL: Russia's War with Estonia
Dept. of Popular Culture: Banksy Was Here: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Click opera - Secondhand best: the point of not designing at all
Radio 1 pulls 'promotional' track for brand of hair gel | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » You Can Own an Integer Too — Get Yours Here
apophenia: maps tech companies + dpblog: utopia maps: more vs. myspace
"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding." - John Updike (via AG)
Little Snitch app for monitoring network traffic on a Mac
cityofsound: Postopolis + BLDGBLOG: Postopolis!, yikes this should be fun!