October 2008
Blood and Sand →
“Man on train watching breakdancing videos on his tablet PC, tapping feet to the...”
– Twitter / Michal Migurski
“The corporations are running things now, so it’s not going to make much...”
– Tom Metzger, former Grand Dragon of the the Ku Klux Klan
Why White Supremacists Support Barack Obama - Esquire
“In case we don’t get this chance again, thank you all so much for the...”
– Twitter / MarsPhoenix
“The tiny toy cars’ parent company, Mattel, now has a market capitalization...”
– Hot Wheels Cars Are a Toy Craze Again | Newsweek Enterprise - Global Business
WatchBoxing from a Distance
“Drive until you run out of road. Take the night ferry into the black water. Look...”
– Twitter / kio
“Crawford was an aerial archaeologist in England in the early 20th century, his...”
– BLDGBLOG I think I love you. More for Dollhouse Earth.
BLDGBLOG: Hitting the Books
“To grasp the magnitude of coal’s global impact, we must try to picture...”
– Long excerpt from BLDGBLOG of “Coal: A Human History” BLDGBLOG: Hitting the Books
“The woman used login information she got from the 33-year-old office worker when...”
– Online divorcee jailed after killing virtual hubby - Yahoo! News
“Only 4.4 per cent of the under-25s’ dreams were black and white. The...”
– Boing Boing: October 22, 2008 Archives
“Assuming all these numbers are accurate, then, only 3 percent of US households...”
– 20% of antenna users to let TV sets go dark in 2009
“We need slaves,” my friend says. “We need slaves to build monuments....”
– Fuck. By no means unique to Dubai (United States, I’m looking at you) except for the contrast and the overt national/racial elements. But still fuck.
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad visits the impoverished camps for the men building the skyscrapers of Dubai and Abu Dhabi | World news | The Guardian
“Usually, if you can text a person you can much more quickly and efficiently call...”
– Thumbspeak: The New Yorker
Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic... →
WatchDollhouse Earth: Bathtub III on Vimeo
“The Overview Effect is the experience of seeing the Earth from a distance,...”
– Dollhouse Earth: “Overview Effect” « The National Space Society of Phoenix
“We all know that American elections can be messy affairs. As longtime online...”
– Twitter: An Antidote to Election Day Voting Problems?
Greg Lynn to Joseph Kosinski: “You can go ahead and think that through, an ad in which you’re building a car around a person, because space is on the table. That’s what’s different.”
Paraphrasing Greg Lynn: We thought the world was flat because we drew the world on paper.
Gore Verbinsky: “when the process becomes sterile we must manufacture anomaly”
