May 2013
8 posts
Vangelis Vasilopoulos is the chief engineer for a company which builds swimming...
– Greek Tax Avoidance 101: Cover Your Swimming Pool With A Tarp, Fool A Satellite | Zero Hedge (via new-aesthetic)
So what do they do with GE’s historical images?
Instead, the app “seems to broaden who is engaged in civic action, not simply...
– http://datasmart.ash.harvard.edu/news/article/citizens-connected-245
What I worry about are the de facto laws that are being coded in software...
– http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/05/18/the-too-smart-city/q87J17qCLwrN90amZ5CoLI/story.html
Yep. No one told me going into urban design that half my life was going to be...
– http://www.humantransit.org/2013/05/how-sim-city-greenwashes-parking.html
jet engine
April 2013
13 posts
Meanwhile we risk overlooking the much more important story here, the real...
– http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2013/apr/25/forget-big-data-small-data-revolution
The challenge therefore remains the quest for some ‘unity’ of conceptual and...
– Allesandro Aurigi - An agenda for urban-designing the digital city
I spoke at Ragi Burhum’s Geomeetup yesterday, about my recent work on vector...
– http://mike.teczno.com/notes/weeks/1846-ladders.html
Wie mensen spreekt die dagelijks met publieke taken in de samenleving in de weer...
– http://www.groene.nl/2013/13/de-stad-als-branieschopper
March 2013
14 posts
Broken robot II
We posit that this lack of overt, organized resistance is due to the five...
– Highlighted by Simeon Nedkov in Code/Space by Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge
Maar zoals het nu eenmaal gaat: evenzeer als de volwassenen de mogelijkheid...
– Highlighted by Simeon Nedkov in De blikken trommel by G. Grass
Broken robot
Indeed, Manovich contends, such is the pervasiveness of software in the...
– Highlighted by Simeon Nedkov in Code/Space by Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge
While some programmers might claim to have had no formal trainig, their...
– Highlighted by Simeon Nedkov in Code/Space by Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge
Coded space and code/space occurs where the transduction of space is mediated by...
– Highlighted by Simeon Nedkov in Code/Space by Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge
Software divulges and affords agency, opens up domains to new possibilities and...
– Highlighted by Simeon Nedkov in Code/Space by Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge
[…] In short, space is a practical place. Thus the street geometrically defined...
– Highlighted by Simeon Nedkov in Code/Space by Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge
Space (and everything else in the world), they argue, is not ontologically...
– Highlighted by Simeon Nedkov in Code/Space by Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge
In the opening chapter, we proposed that one of the primary reasons why software...
– Highlighted by Simeon Nedkov in Code/Space by Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge
February 2013
6 posts
‘Kanniet ligt op het kerkhof,’ was haar motto, ‘en wilniet...
– Highlighted by Simeon Nedkov in Hoe God verdween uit Jorwerd by Geert Mak
If it’s true that the superstorms of late are a harbinger of climate change,...
– http://m.theatlanticcities.com/design/2013/02/why-modernism-gets-blamed-making-snow-storms-worse/4689/
Controversy has continued to grow over the police shooting last Thursday of a...
– http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/christopher-dorner-authorities-reward
The ultimate IKEA walkthrough →
Everyone is out having a great time — no, not just great, an amazing time — and...
– CouchCachet App Gives New Meaning to Lying on the Couch - NYTimes.com, submitted by Ben S. (via new-aesthetic)
“This is fine!” Taking the piss with liefestyle projections is highly necessary in some cases.
Critical blog posts felt like a full assault on my values. And seeing friends...
– http://sstephenson.us/posts/you-are-not-your-code
December 2012
1 post
Many practitioners would dispute any necessary connection to university...
– http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_informatics#section_4
November 2012
4 posts
The Bible legend tells us that the absence of labor—idleness—was a condition of...
– Highlighted by Simeon Nedkov in War and Peace by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
I know your sister too little,” replied Prince Andrew, with a sarcastic...
– Highlighted by Simeon Nedkov in War and Peace by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
October 2012
21 posts
Talking of my family affairs he said to me, “the chief duty of a true...
– Highlighted by Simeon Nedkov in War and Peace by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
They are free, stable, and mean you can post your code on GitHub and nonrich...
– http://macwright.org/2012/10/31/gis-with-python-shapely-fiona.html
In the popular imagination, writers and professors are liberals, hedonists,...
– http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=1040&fulltext=1&media=
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Even if I cared enough about organic food and worried about chemicals, there’s...
– http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/world/asia/fearing-tainted-imports-hong-kong-squeezes-in-farms.html?_r=2&