December 2009
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“All buildings are predictions. Almost all predictions are wrong.”
– Stewart Brand
Dec 31st
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WatchWatch
Now watching: How Buildings Learn, a six part BBC series (1997) with Stewart Brand, based on his book of the same title.
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“Fixing the problem doesn’t mean voting out the feckless Democrats or the...”
– Lawrence Lessig (via squashed) (via ericmortensen) (via tanya77) (via kenyatta)
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Branford Marsalis (1) Radiohead (1) Dirty Projectors (1) Kanye West (1) Notorious B.I.G. (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“If the climate was a bank they would already have saved it.”
– The best line delivered so far in Copenhagen, concerning the U.S.’s commitment to meaningful action. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing standup comedian Hugo Chavez! (From Politico’s Glenn Thrush)
Dec 17th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Radiohead (32) Dirty Projectors (8) Digable Planets (2) The Bad Plus (2) Reflection Eternal (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 16th
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Responsibility in the Attention Economy
The Democracy in America blog at The Economist writes: There hasn’t yet been a country in which the task of cultural formation and reproduction was so thoroughly delegated to the entertainment industry as today’s America. In a media-centric economy, the wages of contrarianism are fat. As are the wages of bombast. If sober, responsible analysis pulled in viewers, PBS and C-SPAN would be the titans...
Dec 16th
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Dec 14th
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The failings of the democratic process are all too evident today. See: copenhagen, health care reform. Fuck you Lieberman, Nelson.
Dec 14th
Curse of the Boomer Hegemony →
There’s no stopping the “me” generation. In the ’60s they got all the good drugs, in the ’70s all the sex, in the ’80s all the money, and now, in the waning days of the aughts, they won’t let go of all the jobs. It goes without saying that during the next decade they’ll gobble up all the good healthcare.
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christmas wish list →
I could use some books to read over break… I’ll be in NJ w/ Meredith for the holidays, so if you can ship before the 21st or after the 28th that would be great. Also it’s not on here but you can always send me coffee… Gimme! or www.intelligentsiacoffee.com
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
Radiohead (19) Miles Davis (13) Little Brother (2) The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (2) Mos Def (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 8th
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“The merging of digital and physical spaces leads to new social and spatial...”
– “How can architects relate to digital media?” TMC keynote at the ‘Day of the Young Architect’ from The Mobile City by Michiel de Lange
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Listenjanaki: Solange covers “Stillness is the Move”...
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because you are the tenth person to infuriate me... →
Cold, hard facts debunk Climategate - Editorial from the Kansas City Star. They do reach the wrong conclusion about the actual emails. The word “trick” is often used in science as a common way to solve a difficult problem. Not like “trick or treat”; like “Hey, here is this trick you can use to find the solution”.
Dec 4th