The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

March 4, 2012

“Over It” – The rant of an angry, Agnostic, British, Indo-Pakistani woman of Muslim heritage. | . Brilliant “rant” (not really a rant, more like good old common sense)! QUOTE I am over members of my community putting pre-pubescent girls in a hijab when they are not even old enough to understand or give consent […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

February 26, 2012

Why Alleys Deserve More Attention – Design – The Atlantic Cities Alleys as tight urbanism – great way to characterize them. QUOTE In America, by the way, it’s rare that you find a shop in an alley, but this is common in Melbourne, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka. Even major department stores have cut storefront windows into […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

February 19, 2012

What’s Behind the Urban Chicken Backlash – Arts & Lifestyle – The Atlantic Cities If I kept chickens, I wouldn’t want to slaughter them myself (much less slaughter mammals), nor would I like to have neighbors who do so. At the same time, I see some value in children “witnessing grisly scenes,” because everyone should […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

February 12, 2012

The American Scholar: Uncommon Sense – Paul Goldberger Lovely essay from 2006, Paul Goldberger on Jane Jacobs: QUOTE Jacobs was never as eager as Mumford for acolytes, though she ended up with plenty of them, and she saw right through many of the things that were presented as consistent with her views. She didn’t even […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

February 5, 2012

TEDxVictoria – Garth Lenz: Provincial Distance in a Tar Nation – YouTube I love this presentation by Garth Lenz – and (sorry, but it has to be said) I hate Canada very much for condoning the tarsands. Canada gets away with pretending to be better than the US, but the tarsands show otherwise. QUOTE A […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

January 29, 2012

At Lincoln House: Teardowns and the value of land Lincoln Institute comments on teardowns: QUOTE …teardowns in established neighborhoods with good density can be a green concept — better than building something new in a cornfield miles away, smart growth advocates would argue. Teardowns take advantage of existing urban infrastructure. And while embodied energy is […]

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New tricks

January 25, 2012

Last night I took my first drawing class in decades. It was a blast – and a real mental work-out. I left feeling positively cross-eyed, my brain having gotten a rewiring to remember. The last drawing class I ever took was in Munich, with Peter Zeiler, …in the late 1970s. The late 70s, people, happened […]

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You asked: Usana is my vitamin supplement of choice

January 24, 2012

The other day, Raul Pacheco-Vega asked via Facebook whether any of his friends recommend taking vitamin supplements, and if ‘yes,’ which ones. Instead of just replying on his wall, here’s a quick post about my supplement of choice, Usana, and why it works for me. As the company’s corporate blog notes: USANA Health Sciences is […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

January 22, 2012

Landscape Absurdism: An Urban Prairie in St. Louis – Arts & Lifestyle – The Atlantic Cities Not as powerful, perhaps, as photos of Detroit’s ruins, these aerial shots of nature overtaking formerly built-up urban areas is startling in its own way: QUOTE As with many industrial cities in America at the time, post-war St. Louis […]

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Stop SOPA + PIPA

January 18, 2012

In lieu of changing code in my header template (not even sure I can do that with a multi-user [MU] WordPress blog like this one) which would black out this blog completely, I’m instead posting a small badge as a reminder to keep pushing Congress to do the right thing. As the Oatmeal points out, […]

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