Beauty in made landscapes

Posted by Unknown Minggu, 24 Juli 2005 0 komentar
Updated - Stanford stupidly took the site down, here's Burtynsky's own site.I saw the Burtynsky exhibition at Stanford today. He takes haunting pictures of landscapes transformed by industry into scenes of devastation and strange beauty. Quarries that look like stacks of boxes or an auditorium, then you see a tiny vehicle and realise the scale.Shattered Ozymandian fragments of ships in Chittagong,...

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The rush to judgement

Posted by Unknown Sabtu, 23 Juli 2005 0 komentar
When I heard radio reports of the London police shooting a suspect in the tube, my heart sank. It sounded like a failure to capture a suspect, it sounded like another possible attack, but most of all it sounded like the last chapter of Blink, where Gladwell analyses closely how easy it is a for a group of armed policemen in hot pursuit to make fatal snap judgements. He summarized in Slate:We tend...

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Digital Freedom in the UK

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At the OpenTech conference today, there was a debate around establishing a British equivalent of the EFF. This seems a very good idea to me - with the UK's ability to push legislation through parliament in a hurry, and the ambiguous situation regarding European legislation versus UK common law, a group prepared to fight test cases and lobby about Bills in parliament. I signed Danny's pledge. My only...

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Apollonian or Dionysian?

Posted by Unknown Rabu, 20 Juli 2005 0 komentar
Apollo 11 landing Google's lunar effort is amusing, but the panorama's shot by Apollo 11, Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 astronauts are the real thing.Unless you believe the Google Ads chosen for the panorama site, that is.You can hear Neil Armstrong's first unscripted words on the moon:The surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered...

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Microformat conversations

Posted by Unknown Senin, 18 Juli 2005 0 komentar
I've been having lots of conversations around microformats recently, with a gallimaufry of thoughtful and interesting people. Deeje has been experimenting, Suw has implemented events, and Danny O'Brien said 'RDF was the LSD of the 90s'Technorati Tags: microformat, t...

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Talking about tags and microformats

Posted by Unknown Minggu, 10 Juli 2005 0 komentar
Back in April, I attended the Microsoft Social Computing Symposium, which included some coverage of tags. they just posted presentations there that only work in IE6 here's a direct links to Windows media files for:David Weinberger's 'From Trees to Tags'Me reporting back on the Tags Birds of a feather discussionLast week at Where 2.0 I was chatting with Chris Pirillo about tags and microformats, when...

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London calling

Posted by Unknown Sabtu, 09 Juli 2005 0 komentar
James Lileks talks of England's spirit revealed through Holst. My internal soundtrack was by Elgar, but reading blogs I heard the sound of The Clash coming through.London calling to the faraway townsNow war is declared and battle come downI heard about the London bombings through wikinews and blogs. I watched people trying to make sense of these attacks together, collecting facts and telling their...

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