December 2010
“Most of America’s cities have (or had) a dominant newspaper, and that paper had...”
– LRB · John Lanchester · Let Us Pay (via Instapaper)
“One of the signs of a damaged ego is absolute certainty. Schools encourage the...”
– (via Instapaper)
WatchGreg Lynn’s brilliant presentation on calculus and architecture. I had forgotten about this work, but I think I forgot it through the process of metabolizing it into my brain.
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A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation →
Emerging from sleep and genuine downtime. I had to re-read these grafs a few times, and found new layers within them on each reading. Now on to the article.
In fact, West is so satisfied with his urban research that he’s already becoming a little restless. Recently, he and Bettencourt, led by this impatience, began exploring yet another subject: the corporation. At first glance, cities and...
“Everyday carry (EDC) refers to various items, usually small, that are worn or...”
– https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Everyday_carry
“This is the heart of the game. I wanted each ghostly enemy to have a specific...”
– GameInternals - Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior (via soxiam)
Brilliant.
(via dpstyles)
“Motto: Oro en Paz, Fierro en Guerra
(Spanish for “Gold in Peace, Iron in War”)”
– San Francisco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via ericrodenbeck)
Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: fuck tha world →
I’m not sure what this is or how it came to pass, but it feels like some kind of unlikely and precious find, like someone else’s cell phone in the back of a cab.
pitchforkreviewsreviews:
on valentine’s day, me and my ex-girlfriend emily went to dinner at this restaurant in williamsburg and then after dinner we took a cab home and as we’re going over the williamsburg bridge in the...
“We are now living in a global state that has been structured for the benefit of...”
– Motherfucker, I’ve been trying to find the right words to express this for ages. Now I have to find something else to be at a loss for.
Charles Stross
via moleitau
(via plsj)
“The place to begin is silence, so you can hear your soul speak in (her) unique...”
– —Chrystos on advice for new writers. (via theredtree)
“Coming back to capitalism is like walking into a brick wall. It’s like being...”
– Aurora Levins Morales from Shock. (via theredtree) (via deltafoxtrot)
A long time ago, today was the future →
I think often about games and how they are a model for the world. When I do, I think often about luck, and how its role in games is a kind of exorcism, an effigy, for the real world.
Children’s games — including most notably the Checkered Game of Life — are almost entirely luck. It’s one of the first lessons. Chess comes later, and models a world in which merit triumphs....
Lost At E Minor: Sagmeister streams live from... →
Always. Brilliant.
lostateminor:
I suppose it should come as no surprise that Stefan Sagmeister, renowned graphic designer, has done something new and brilliant. But that should almost go without saying. The new Sagmeister website features a live webcam streaming footage of the New York studio from above, with the menu…
“In fact, forget about Wall Street or LaSalle, it really doesn’t matter the name...”
– via Frank Pasquale, Speech by Commissioner Bart Chilton before the High Frequency Trading World USA 2010 Conference, New York
http://www.cftc.gov/pressroom/speechestestimony/opachilton-35.html
“Every zombie war is a war of attrition. It’s always a numbers game. And it’s...”
– Klosterman in today’s NYT explaining why the internet is a zombie attack (via fimoculous)
