The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

February 24, 2013

RIP EveryBlock | Holovaty.com Sadly, EveryBlock was shut down. Its founder, Adrian Holovaty, comments. QUOTE More than six years ago, I wrote a blog post that got some attention about how newspaper (and, really, journalism) sites needed to change. EveryBlock was an attempt at that kind of change — in my eyes, a successful attempt. […]

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I dreamed about my superpower

February 21, 2013

A dream of lost needles in haystacks prompts the author to discover her superpower.

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Trying to write,…

February 20, 2013

…but. I’m trying, halfheartedly only since I’m feeling quite half-dead. But I just can’t seem to make it happen. Not a happy place to be. Maybe I can get started by defacing this blog.

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

February 3, 2013

A 70-Year-Old Documentary About Cities Shows We Haven’t Come Very Far – Arts & Lifestyle – The Atlantic Cities I don’t know… I think Goodyear’s assessment of this film is too generous. It gave me the creeps: both ‘the city’ (which was a polluted, congested hell-hole) and ‘the suburb’ or planned ‘idyllic town,’ which was […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

January 27, 2013

Extremely Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris « Curious Eggs Curious Eggs Simply beautiful… QUOTE All the images shown below were taken using Autochrome Lumière technology. It’s an early color photography process, patented in 1903 and invented by the famous French Auguste and Louis Lumière, populary known as Lumière Brothers. They were the earliest […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

January 20, 2013

In the Wake of Aaron Swartz’s Death, Let’s Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation So many responses to Aaron Swartz’s untimely death by suicide (many posted to Twitter and/or Facebook), and here is the EFF’s piece, bookmarked to Diigo. QUOTE The CFAA’s vague language, broad reach, and harsh punishments combine to create […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

January 13, 2013

How guns became gadgets—lightweight, easy to use, and more effective than ever – Quartz Such a good point… QUOTE The AR-15 shows how guns have become gadgets, thanks to technological change and an army of fanboys connected over the Internet. It’s a military weapon in the hands of civilians, so exquisitely designed that it might […]

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Money money money

January 11, 2013

Two money-related things I have a hard time wrapping my head around. First, Quartz Daily points me to an article by Matt Phillips, The US Fed had a greater profit than Apple and Exxon combined last year, wherein we read that the profit made by the Federal Reserve, which it has to hand over to […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

January 6, 2013

Resilience Is About Relationships, Not Just Infrastructure – Neighborhoods – The Atlantic Cities Resilience is the new (actually, old) black. QUOTE As cities prepare for climate change in earnest, they’re going to need to harden infrastructure, change building patterns, and overhaul government emergency procedures. But they’re also going to have to put a greater value […]

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The Monday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

December 24, 2012

From clicks to bricks: why some e-tailers now want actual storefronts | SmartPlanet The body (and its many-splendored sensorium) isn’t dead yet. We want to touch, not just watch. QUOTE The past decade has seen a non-stop discussion about the rise of online and virtual channels that are replacing physical storefronts. Now, it seems some […]

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