The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

December 1, 2013

The Magic of Fabric: Future Beauty | North Shore Art Throb My review of the Peabody Essex Museum’s show, Future Beauty. QUOTE Currently on view at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum is an exhibition that might just discombobulate you: Future Beauty; Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion. The show consists of almost one hundred garments, gorgeously displayed on a […]

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The day after Thanksgiving. No, wait. Thanksgiving.

November 29, 2013

In this brief rant I explain why I think the Left, with its critique of Thanksgiving as a holiday rooted in the white man’s oppression of Native populations, helps to enable hyper-capitalism’s 24/7/365 shopping encroachment on this holiday. Together, we’re in a race to the bottom.

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

November 24, 2013

Your Long Commute Is Sapping Your Will to Care About Politics – Emily Badger – The Atlantic Cities No doubt there are some flaws in this study, but the conclusions are intriguing. Is it the commute? Is it the isolation that commuting often entails (sitting singly in one’s car, or avoiding eye-contact on public transit)? […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

November 17, 2013

Project MUSE – Reconstructing the Subject: Modernist Painting in Western Germany, 1945-1950 (review) Reread this great review of my 1995 book the other day; had to bookmark it, even if I am tooting my own horn here! QUOTE Inside the deliberately circumscribed limitations of her topic, Yule Heibel makes a profoundly sophisticated contribution to scholarship […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

November 11, 2013

Mobile Computing Puts the Location Back in Retail | MIT Technology Review The whole article is super interesting, but this bit especially: QUOTE Yet the offline environment is actually more important when consumers connect through a mobile device. With colleagues including Sang Pil Han of the City University of Hong Kong, we studied 260 users […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

November 3, 2013

10 Most Bada** Comic Book Heroines (IMAGES) | Mike Madrid Love the illustration for Betty Bates, Lady-at-Law (ha!). As she slugs a perp (knocking his gun out of his hand in the process), she tells him,”I’ll teach you to lie to a reputable attorney!” Needless to add, not one of her hairs is out of […]

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In memoriam: Jim Falck, artist

October 15, 2013

A memorial to the artist Jim Falck (1928-2013), resident of Beverly Massachusetts, native of Fargo North Dakota. He was a terrific friend, gardener, and painter, who unabashedly developed to his own ends the great tradition of Abstract Expressionism.

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Started a Tumblr

September 27, 2013

Tumblr post on Happiness.

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Lebenskunst

March 15, 2013

From my breakfast perch, I can see a beautiful heritage house across the street. The lovely owner runs a home-based daycare. This morning I watched parents in various makes of cars hurl themselves to the curb, gently and with apparent attention shepherd their children inside, …then run back nearly headless to the cars that would […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

March 10, 2013

The Transportation Planning Rule Every City Should Reform – Eric Jaffe – The Atlantic Cities More on the transportation bias (it’s pro-car and pro-vehicle speed): QUOTE The weight of this hidden hand doesn’t fall on San Francisco alone. “Intersection LOS [level of service] is one of the most widely-used traffic analysis tools in the U.S. […]

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