Interesting idea from Kevin Kelly on extending the “free” with advertising through Adobe. (Via IF!)
This Land: Visual Pollution | The New York Times
Fascinating slide show narrated by Kevin Fry of Route 1 (which runs 2000 miles from Maine to Florida), and which is in too many places a godforsaken strip mall. Fry’s argument is that these places, built for cars not people, alienate us from any kind of authentic sense of place, and in turn this alienates us from citizenship, which is (and must be) local and specific. Relates to this article: http://tinyurl.com/2hkf25 too. (Slide show link via pricetags)
24c3: The history of guerilla knitting
This is for Maria over at Small Change Blog! Guerilla knitting — who knew??