January 2010
42 posts
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Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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“One thing at a time. Most important thing first. Start now.”
– from Skelliewag
Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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“A picture is not a thousand words, but more like a million.”
– Nicholas Negroponte, on bandwidth and why not all bits-per-second are created equal. vintage WIRED, June 1998
Jan 28th
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“Are there any women in Apple marketing?”
– Brooke Hammerling, founder of Brew Media Relations, a technology public relations firm, on why iPad is the worst name for an Apple media tablet. via The New York Times
Jan 28th
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“Carrier networks aren’t set to handle five million tablets sucking down 5...”
– Philip Cusick, an analyst at Macquarie Securities via The New York Times
Jan 28th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Renderfarm on Wheels
renderBOXX modules in increments of 5 (80 cores), 10 (160 cores), or more Available in a 14, 24, or 42U Mobile Rack which maintains all hardware and software internally, providing everything you need in one chassis KVM Drawer featuring a keyboard/video/mouse w/LCD monitor Head Node featuring license manager, queue manager, and up to 16TB of Storage 24-Port Switch maintains license...
Jan 25th
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Great Brook Ski Touring Center
Catch the spirit of winter at Great Brook Farm State Park! Located only 25 miles from downtown Boston, Great Brook Ski Touring Center provides over 10 miles of machine-groomed trails for cross country skiing from December 1 to March 20, snow conditions permitting. The trails include all levels of difficulty and explore the beautiful landscape of farmland, forests, streams and ponds at 1,000-acre...
Jan 25th
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“In the end, we all want a wife.”
– Sandra Tsing Loh in an op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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“Tents, tents, tents. That’s the word we want to get out. We need tents.”
– Niurka Piñeiro, a spokeswoman for the International Organization for Migration via The New York Times
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Paper Emergency Shelters
More than 2 million people became homeless when civil war broke out in Rwanda in 1994. The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) normally supplied plastic sheets and aluminum poles to be rigged as temporary shelters. Rwandan refugees would sell the aluminum poles and then proceed to cut down trees to use branches for structural support. Contributing to already...
Jan 25th
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disaster technology
CNN has 360 video up online of the disaster in Haiti which seems to be provided by immersive media. Does better technology make disasters any less devastating?
Jan 24th
Jan 24th
vintage ad browser →
wonderfully thorough collection of bad advertising (with several exceptions) throughout the decades
Jan 24th
“tragedy + nudity = comedy”
– Steve Carell on the red carpet at the SAG awards
Jan 24th
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“what are the inherent properties of the urban landscape that make one surface...”
– Our Augmentable World by Jan Chipchase
Jan 23rd
“the longer this situation persists, the more dire the news for the architecture...”
– via Arch Record
Jan 23rd
typo/graphic posters →
typo/graphic posters is a directory of typographic and graphic posters. a passionate project focused on the graphic design community.
Jan 23rd
Jan 23rd
P.S.1 2010
Published Friday, January 22, 2010. THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART AND P.S.1  SELECT SOLID OBJECTIVES - IDENBURG LIU AS WINNER OF  ELEVENTH ANNUAL YOUNG ARCHITECTS PROGRAM Architectural Firm Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu Presents the Urban Landscape Pole Dance, to Open in June in the Courtyard of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center from P.S.1
Jan 23rd
Jan 23rd
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WatchWatch
Levi Leipheimer, part of Team Radioshack
Jan 22nd
“This is not where I imagined I’d be when I turned 30.”
– Architect, or Whatever via the New York Times
Jan 22nd
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WatchWatch
The Third & The Seventh by Alex Roman crazy computational complexity
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
seafood selector
Make Smart Choices When Eating Seafood Choose fish that are good for you and the ocean, and use our list on the go. Check out our Sushi Selector. from the Environmental Defense Fund
Jan 22nd
Jan 22nd
davidgalestudios →
fine art and ideology since 1978.
Jan 22nd
UNDAC Handbook
United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination The UNDAC handbook is a reference guide for the use of members of the UNDAC team undertaking an emergency mission. The handbook contains a variety of useful information, checklists and a description of coordination structures in the field
Jan 22nd
Jan 22nd
“The best thing about living in a non-isothermal house is that you’re able to...”
– from Wednesday’s New York Times: Chilled by Choice
Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
Jan 21st