BLDGBLOG: The residual landscape (China) / Burtynsky
Bernard Stiegler: The global mnemotechnical system, there is an odd Bucky Fuller/early media studies feel to Stiegler's writing, but interesting none the less.
The Prudent Investor: History Reserves A Sad Place For The Next Fed Boss
TURING'S CATHEDRAL [10.24.05] by George Dyson, on von Neumann and Google.
"My visit to Google? Despite the whimsical furniture and other toys, I felt I was entering a 14th-century cathedral — not in the 14th century but in the 12th century, while it was being built. Everyone was busy carving one stone here and another stone there, with some invisible architect getting everything to fit. The mood was playful, yet there was a palpable reverence in the air. 'We are not scanning all those books to be read by people,' explained one of my hosts after my talk. 'We are scanning them to be read by an AI.'..
"The best description comes from science fiction writer Simon Ings: 'When our machines overtook us, too complex and efficient for us to control, they did it so fast and so smoothly and so usefully, only a fool or a prophet would have dared complain.'"
Is it me or does Dyson want us to roll over and surrender to the Borg?
Peggy Noonan can't take it any more, does that mean the Republican's long knifes are now angled towards Bush. No matter how much I disagreed with their policies there was always a degree of competence in the Reagan and Bush I regimes. People like Noonan and Scowcroft where pretty good at what they did and they've finally flinched at watching Bush II trash the White House. The big question to me is where is Jim Baker? The Bush I problem solver got Dubya through Florida and into the White House, will they call him back now, or is the internal hate to high?
collision detection: Get your game face on, Clive Thompson is still the best at describing the strange unrealness that emerges when computer animated characters get more "realistic".
BBC NEWS | Technology | Gamer buys virtual space station, for $100,000! A bit shocking except that apparently this real estate has potential to generate loads of real money. The $26,500 island was pure luxury in an online space, this deal has more "economic man" about it...
don norman (24 October 2005, Interconnected), Matt Webb has a good response to Don Norman's excellent anti Google UI rant. Good points on both sides, so I'm left in the middle on this one.
"When people use the term Web 2.0, I always feel a little bit stupider for the rest of the day."
Pew Internet & American Life Project Report: Internet adoption
CommodityMine - Complete Mineral Commodities Information
information aesthetics - search engine comparison
Saranont Limpananont is one of my favorite fellow students at ITP
we make money not art: Takashi Murakami in driver's seat of Pivo
Everyware is Adam Greenfield's first book, look out for it.
Pruned: Naoya Hatakeyama & Geoff's Earth-Fountain©
The Observer | Magazine | The city that ate the world
visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks
visualresistance.org » Blog Archive » Interview with M-City
Linux-Kernel Archive: Re: [PATCH] Re: Move of input drivers, so Eric Raymond schooling Linus Torvalds, of serious geek value only...
Chicago Tribune | Did blogging doom prof's shot at tenure? "And you don't need a PhD to know he writes very well, although that's not necessarily a plus in academia."
Who is JT LeRoy? The True Identity of a Great Literary Hustler
Email 2.0, although personally I think Mike's work is way better than all the 2.0 crap. Especially when you factor in Banapana's The Elephant in the Room, although in the end I do actually like AJAX, really I do.
TheWorldIsSpiky.pdf (application/pdf Object) Richard Florida takes on Thomas Friedman
A Nobel Letdown in Economics, anti game theory in Business Week.
NYC Subway Flash Overlay for Google Maps : Using VGMap by Eyebeam R&D
Yahoo CEO: "We will always be more open than Google"
apophenia: remix is active consumption not production (when media becomes culture, part 2)
Alan Ginsberg: Howl, apparently its the 50th anniversary..
HoustonSoReal: Bun B King of the Trill Mix CD FREE Download
John Battelle's Searchblog: Google-Sun - The Toolbar, Ay, There's the Rub
apophenia: somewhere in-between the ALA and Google is harmony
Oolong - The pancake rabbit. an up close history of a web meme.
Organic Warfare: Tularemia Aerosol Detected Over DC Antiwar Protest
Bicycle sales boom in US amid rising gas prices - Yahoo! News
Beyond Greed and Scarcity by Bernard Lietaer - alternative monetary systems