April 2009
1 post
“Purposeful collective action, whatever its circumstances, requires the...”
– Gideon Kunda, “Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation”
March 2009
5 posts
WatchThe Story of Fruity @ tcho.com
The case of the 500-mile email →
“Frozen Angles” - Zoe Keating
“I’ve never seen so much panic around me, but panic is the last thing on my...”
– Bruce Sterling at Webstock 09
January 2009
1 post
"After the Movie" by Marie Howe →
October 2008
1 post
“On a separate note, one good thing is that there haven’t been any reports of...”
– Paul Krugman, “What happened today?”
September 2008
2 posts
Case-Shiller Housing Price Index →
May 2008
2 posts
muxtape →
A site for sharing mixed tapes of mp3s.
Architecture Astronauts →
April 2008
11 posts
“The upscale liberals who revere Obama have spent their lives championing...”
– David Brooks, “Demography is King”, New York Times
“In the defendant Wesley Snipes, the court is presented with a wealthy, famous...”
– US District Court judge William Terrell Hodges
“Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from...”
– John le Carre, “The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy”, The New York Times, May 8, 1974
“We would be able to totally obliterate them.”
– Hillary Clinton, assessing the options for a U.S. response to an Iranian attack on Israel. [New York Times]
“Machines should work; people should think.”
– The IBM Pollyanna Principle
“They say the 21st century is going to be the Asian Century, but, of course, it’s...”
– David Brooks, “The Great Forgetting”
Goldfrapp - Ooh La La →
“It would be convenient to blame the regulators for all that, but the system is...”
– The Economist, “Fixing Finance”
"Though to be fair, he once got a merit badge for... →
“In this world, dress matters, home decor matters, and a Brooklyn vs. a Manhattan...”
– Adelle Waldman, The Assimilation Artist
March 2008
2 posts
large hadron collider threatens mankind →
Death Star, anyone?
reboot
The sequence of events is, at this point, a cliche. I once had a blog, and at first it was fun. But writing polished blog entries is time-consuming, and the blog software I was using eventually became outdated. The design was impersonal, cookie-cutter. The format encouraged long-form expression and polished gems of thought rather than off-the-cuff observations and linking. It was for people who...