February 2008
6 posts
“Any team wearing spandex is disqualified.”
– rules of the Idiotarod race
January 2008
18 posts
I’m reading and enjoying Grady Clay’s Close-Up: How to Read the American City. Clay writes playfully and with a great deal of insight, reminding me of McLuhan. Despite the book’s age (originally written in 73!), it feels relevant, which is more than I can say about books on the Internet written last year. This is a nice change.
There are a number of hand-drawn figures that...
“Is there going to be much hair involved? Will there be a lot of hair on the...”
– My roommate, after convincing a hair stylist to make a house call.
I finished Oh Pure and Radiant Heart over the weekend. It’s really quite awful. I can’t remember the last time I disliked a book so much.
Basically, Millet takes a potentially interesting premise (three of the fathers of the atomic bomb suddenly coming to the present) and weakly strings it along the least plausible of plots. All of her “philosophical insights” are...
Sometimes I miss school:
Mikkin has challenged Hans-Peter to play [backgammon]
for Pizza for the next graduate coffee hour.
If Mikkin wins, there will be Pizza instead
of cookies for the next coffee hour.
(an email on the grads mailing list)
“what if the White House were actually a portal to the greatest subterranean...”
– http://subtopia.blogspot.com/2008/01/in-white-houses-shadow.html
“Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange...”
– John Hodgman, The Areas of My Expertise
This lady sure sleeps around
“I use billion dollar satellites to find tupperware”
– Geocacher POCrow222
“there’s been an outstanding bug for nearly two years for MySQL to add support...”
– some blog
http://afrigator.com/Kenya →
Part of me agrees with the work quoted below. We’re becoming mobile sensors, or at least platforms on which sensors (mobile phones) are installed. I’d have to agree with Adam Greenfield and Mark Shepard, though - these uses of sensors hardly seem empowering. I’d far rather see sensor networks used for such purposes (eg, collecting air pollution levels), though it hardly hurts...
“Integrating simple air quality sensors into networked mobile phones promotes...”
– http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ParticipatoryUrbanism/index.html
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