Who is writing Victoria 2020? And why call it that, given that DV2020 already exists?

May 19, 2008

Edit/update (8:12 pm): see end of post. Second update (May 22/08, 7:30 am): see end of post. Here’s something that’s rather upsetting, and totally contrary to 21st century solutions to political discourse. There’s a new site in Victoria that calls itself Victoria 2020, which in turn happens to copy the name of an already existing […]

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Diigo Bookmarks 05/20/2008 (a.m.)

May 19, 2008

The Big Sort – Bill Bishop w/ Robert G. Cushing – Book Review by Scott Stossel – New York Times – Annotated Informative review of Bill Bishop’s new book, The Big Sort. It’s intriguing to juxtapose this to the Knute Berger article that discusses transumerism, which I also bookmarked today. It’s almost as if two […]

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Hypnotized: I think I need a vacation…

May 19, 2008

Musical interlude for this holiday Monday…. I realize that Hypnotized by Fleetwood Mac (here on YouTube) is about something as stupid as UFOs & paranormal shit, but …oh man, I just LURVE this song (words & music)… I can still remember where I first heard this song: in somebody’s suite (bed-sit) somewhere in Fairfield, a […]

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Diigo Bookmarks 05/19/2008 (a.m.)

May 18, 2008

“Pay your voluntary carbon taxes: Move into the fashionable high-rise city,” by John Barber (globeandmail) Barber’s article links the ideas expressed around the demise of suburbs due to rising fuel costs, the benefits of densifying the cities (by building up, not out), and discussions around carbon taxes. “Meanwhile, the free market is applying its own […]

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Diigo Blog » China Earthquake ~ A picture is worth a thousand words

May 18, 2008

Maggie Tsai of Diigo has kept the Diigo community up to speed on her and the Diigo team’s experience of the recent earthquake in Sichuan province. Diigo is headquartered in Reno, Nevada, but also has a development team in Chengdu. Maggie herself has been traveling in the area, and it has been reassuring to hear […]

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Steven Pinker on “dignity” (Diigo Bookmarks 05/17/08)

May 16, 2008

The Stupidity of Dignity, by Steven Pinker This is a great essay by Steven Pinker, which skewers the conservatives’ “latest, most dangerous ploy,” namely their “defense” of “dignity.” Pinker proceeds from bioethicist Ruth Macklin’s 2003 challenge to the conservatives, her essay, “Dignity Is a Useless Concept.” From his essay: The problem is that “dignity” is […]

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Diigo Bookmarks 05/16/2008 (a.m.)

May 15, 2008

At The Churchill Club: The Top 10 Tech Trends (Tech Trader Daily – Barron’s Online) – Annotated An article by Eric Savitz that sums up the panel presentation by Steve Jurvetson, Vinod Khosla, Josh Kopelman, Roger McNamee, Joe Schoendorf, and Tony Perkins on the top 10 tech trends to be aware of. Lots of buzz […]

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MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU on Vimeo

May 15, 2008

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU on Vimeo Click on the title (above) to see a stop-motion animation of some fantastic graffiti carried out by BLU in Buenos Aires.  Amazing. Found via Cool Hunting (click through for their description/ commentary).

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Diigo Bookmarks 05/15/2008 (p.m.)

May 15, 2008

Nomads at last | Economist.com – Annotated Published on the same date as The new oases (which I bookmarked at the time), I missed this story the first time around (April 10). Saw it now via Wendy Waters’s blog, All About Cities. Like “The new oases,” this article is also about mobile computing, and its […]

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“Techne” and “Arte”: Qualities.

May 14, 2008

It’s one of those long-buried texts in the back of my mind: Adorno’s dissection of techne and “art” (both of which he of course spelled in Greek letters, so tough luck for you if the Greek alphabet wasn’t something that tripped off your eyeballs easily…). I won’t embarrass myself by trying to recapitulate what he […]

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