2009-04-08
post/94116498
quote 10:41:00
“ They built all these freeways all over Detroit and congestion is now probably their lowest priority problem. They have a lot of other problems, like they lost more than half their population, most of the jobs, the real estate values collapsed. ”
John Norquist, interviewed at Streetsblog: “Back to the Grid, Part 2: on Reclaiming American Cities”
via Anil Dash: Getting What You Design For
2009-04-06
post/93486975
photo 16:36:27
Sci-Fi-O-Rama » Digital Visions “Computers and Art”
via ffffound, but I wanted to preserve the attribution properly (although the image isn’t even on the original post any more).
2009-02-08
Four Links, Vaguely Connected
text 23:07:00
How The City Hurts Your Brain, The Boston Globe
“We’ve constructed a world that’s always drawing down from the same mental account,” Kuo says. “And then we’re surprised when [after spending time in the city] we can’t focus at home.”
The End Of Alone, The Boston Globe:
At our desk, on the road, or on a remote beach, the world is a tap away. It’s so cool. And yet it’s not. What we lose with our constant connectedness
Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains, Wired Science
This degree of interruption is correlated with stress and frustration and lowered creativity. That makes sense. When you’re scattered and diffuse, you’re less creative. When your times of reflection are always punctured, it’s hard to go deeply into problem-solving, into relating, into thinking.
Twitter, Communication, and My Intermittent Inner Luddite
What does that have to do with Twitter, one might ask? Well, while the main means by which Newspeak was implemented was simplifying and subtly changing the inference of words, another element was the extreme condensation of communication
2009-02-01
post/74758931
photo 12:03:00
Astronomy North: ”Show me someone who believes you can’t see the northern lights above the city and I’ll show you someone who goes to bed before eleven o’clock.” via bsag.
