January 2012
23 posts
Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America... →
“A HUNDRED years from now, looking back, the only question that will appear...”
– The opening paragraph from the article, ‘Climate change: Durban and everything that matters’, in The Economist. To get a sense of some of the modeled impacts of a 4 C (7 F) hotter Earth check out the map created by the United Kingdom’s national weather agency. (via plantedcity)
“…it is worth listening to the historian Richard Longworth and his...”
– The American Institute of Architects - The New Big Three: New Orleans, Detroit, Phoenix, Practicing Architecture
“Modern architects recognize 300 masterpieces but ignore the other 30 million...”
– Andres Duany (via lifeonfoot)
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Chinese military mobilities cyber-militias to... →
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NYT Misleads Readers on Iran Crisis →
NYT is setting itself up to beat the drums of war once again…
M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All... →
Louis CK Q&A, Rolling Stone Nov. 2011 →
“When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of...”
– Sergio Leone (via nevver)
The Rise of the Tea Party →
US press coverage has usually cast the Tea Party as an authentic expression of popular anger against Washington insiders. Anthony DiMaggio’s new book, Rise of the Tea Party, shatters such myths, demonstrating that the Tea Party has never been a genuine social movement or political outsider but rather an elite-dominated group that was closely linked to the Republican establishment from its...
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Astronomy/8th Light - Blackstar
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Tufte Design Principles, simplified →
courtneybolton:
Edward Tufte describes 6 fundamental principles for analytical design (that he claims are merely mirrors of 6 principles of analytical thinking). In brief these are,
1. Show comparisons, contrasts, differences.
2. Show causality, mechanism, explanation, systematic structure.
3. Show…
December 2011
27 posts
“Perfect! A venture capitalist governor, his rich developer friends, and an...”
– Now That the Factories Are Closed, It’s Tee Time in Benton Harbor, Mich. - NYTimes.com
Sometimes the comments aren’t totally worthless. Like this one. Michigan is totally fucked, by the way. Also a microcosm of America.
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“In other cases, the institutional environment in which a city finds itself can...”
– Urban-Development Legends by Mario Polèse, City Journal Autumn 2011
The Massacre Everyone Ignored – Up To 70 Striking... →
More Holiday Gifts for Foodies →
haven’t bought me a christmas gift yet? anything on this page will suffice.
“Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole...”
– Jim Wallis (via azspot) BUY CLEAN WATER FOR CHRISTMAS YOU MATERIALISTIC CONSUMER FUCKS
“But the chilling takeaway of this whole debacle was the irrefutable air of...”
– Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works | Motherboard
And also…
(via ninakix)
“I do think it’s worthwhile explaining to customers that the lowest price point...”
– Amazon’s Jungle Logic - NYTimes.com
“There’s really only one label for the pathetic exercise we’ve just witnessed in...”
– Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, director of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation and CIGI Chair of Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ontario, in his new article in the Globe & Mail, ‘Climate summit was a pathetic exercise in deceit’. (via...
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study shows women hate other hot women →
“about 300-350 protestors. 10 drug dealers and 40 crackheads looking for their...”
– regarding Occupy Denver; Denver Police Department Car-to-Car text messages, 11/19
see them all
Minister: China wants to invest in US roads, rails... →
If the U.S. won’t invest in its own infrastructure, China will; creating jobs for American workers so they can buy Chinese goods. Don’t underestimate China, I think they have some intelligent leadership right now.