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Atemporal design, this time Swiss style.

Submitted by kazys on 31 January, 2012 - 10:27

America 2050

America 2050:

Everyone in studio should look at this material.

America 2050 is a national initiative to meet the infrastructure, economic development and environmental challenges of the nation as we prepare to add about 130 million additional Americans by the year 2050.

Submitted by kazys on 25 January, 2012 - 22:59

Atemporality in big budget pop music. Lana Del Rey - Video...

Atemporality in big budget pop music. Lana Del Rey - Video Games

Submitted by kazys on 24 January, 2012 - 16:04

The Continental Breakup

The Continental Breakup:

The Planet Money team takes on the Euro crisis in this week’s This American Life. In typical fashion, they introduce a complicated economic concept through a series of stories.

The markets are up so far this year, but trading volume is low, suggesting that this is unlikely to last. On March 20, as Felix Salmon explains at Reuters, Greece will have a to repay or refinance a €14.4 billion bond which it simply will not be able to do. The result, unless a miracle happens (Apple Computer donating the funds to Greece?), will be some kind of (almost certainly disorderly) default that will wreck the Euro and, in turn, the world economy.

If you’re confused as to just how we got here, the most recent This American Life is a good place to start.

Submitted by kazys on 22 January, 2012 - 22:24

"There’s a photo of a guy who got tattoos to match those found on Otzi, aka The Iceman, who died more..."

“There’s a photo of a guy who got tattoos to match those found on Otzi, aka The Iceman, who died more than 5,000 years ago in the Italian Alps. Mike Goldstein, the guy who got the tattoo, said the series of 10 simple lines arranged in groups of four, three, and three served to remind him that you don’t have to be incredibly important during your lifetime in order to be important. “It reminds me that I can live however I want,” he says in the book. “I don’t have to work in an office or wear a tie, as are the expectations of our culture. I can walk across the Alps and die in a swamp, and that’s OK.”” - Boing Boing (via heterochronia)

Submitted by kazys on 15 December, 2011 - 09:02

If Facebook, Google Plus, and YouTube Were Built in 1997....

If Facebook, Google Plus, and YouTube Were Built in 1997....:

Three important contemporary web sites, recreated with technology and spirit of late 1997, according to our memories.

Best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.03 and a screen resolution of 1024×768 pixels, running under Windows 95. We recommend using a Virtual Machine or appropriate hardware, connected to a CRT monitor. If such an environment unachievable, it should be possible to experience the piece with any browser that still supports HTML Frames. The transfer speed of our server is limited to 8 kB/s («dial-up» speed).

~ olia & dragan, December 2011

Submitted by kazys on 15 December, 2011 - 09:00

Timothy Leary’s Apple Macintosh LC III.

Submitted by kazys on 6 October, 2011 - 22:27

"All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook’s new features, and nothing will ever be the same, and all I can do is sit here and weep at the beauty and magic that Mark Zuckerberg has brought to this world."

"All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook’s new features, and nothing will ever be the same, and all I can do is sit here and weep at the beauty and magic that Mark Zuckerberg has brought to this world.":

“Why? Why, sky? Why do you look like shit? You look just the same as ever, just blue sky and white clouds. Why can’t you change the way Facebook changes?”

Submitted by kazys on 25 September, 2011 - 19:24

Hurricane Morning

Looks like we’ll be ok. Local weather stations suggest that we got some 4 inches of rain. At 4 we were woken up by some vicious winds and moved to a lower room that seemed safer. We did lose the top of a tree but it landed on the woodpile. Nevertheless, there are still hours to go.

Submitted by kazys on 28 August, 2011 - 08:12

The Storm Starts

The storm is starting even though it is still a very long way off. I know this is only a taste of what we’re going to get later in the night and tomorrow morning.

Another concern we have is the amount of water we’re going to get. We are on a hillside and we have concerns about how saturated the soil is on that hillside. That said, I think this is a safe place to live, likely the safest I’ve ever lived in.

It is still surprising how many people fervently believe that the augmented city will get them out of this no matter what. So many individuals seem so used to that condition that they forget just how fragile those networks are and don’t have any backup plans for when they fail.

Submitted by kazys on 27 August, 2011 - 20:27