February 2009
3 posts
Great perspective on technology by comedian Louis CK. http://is.gd/kClL (via @longnow)
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Watermarks Project →
I love this idea. A British artist is projecting the estimated high-tide mark on to buildings should the Greenland ice cap melt. (via BLDGBLOG)
Learning how to speak hip: http://audio.skeyelab.com/howtospeakhip/ (via @skud)
January 2009
2 posts
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
We are at a crossroads. It is the beginning of a new administration and the end of an old one. There are those who would like to forget the last eight years. It’s the magic-slate idea. As if you could lift up an acetate window and those eight years would suddenly vanish.
Photographs make this somewhat more difficult. They are a partial record of who we were and how we imagined ourselves....
“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new....”
– Barack Obama — 20 Jan 2008