December 2010
13 posts
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Dec 30th
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Cyclists, cars and fault →
Another day, another angry thread with generalizations based on transportation mode running amok. I’m feeling fired up about this again. *bike rant ensues* Yesterday, I was riding downtown during rush hour. I should really take one of those cycling commuter courses, because rush hour scares the bejeezus out of me. What am I supposed to do if I’m traveling down the bike lane on...
Dec 19th
ListenWhat does one do with an earworm? Share it, of...
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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“[…] Places remain great accumulators of value. New technologies may...”
– Malcolm McCullough (2007), Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing. (OK, I promise this is the last one. It also happens to be the closing paragraph.)
Dec 17th
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Puzzling over the mathematics of bittorrent
I don’t use BitTorrent much, but I’m fascinated by the mathematics of it. [Disclaimer: I Do Not Do Math.] Here’s an example: I’ve been downloading a file, 205.9 MB, the discography of an American band that was once popular and isn’t much anymore. Transmission tells me the Torrent file was created August 2006, and I started downloading it November 27th of this...
Dec 17th
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“Homo faber, the maker of things, usually tends to add value by means of...”
– Malcolm McCullough (2007). “Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing and Environmental Knowing.” p. 206.
Dec 15th
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“The implementation of digital infrastructure is a vital component of community...”
– Sirkku Wallin, Liisa Horelli. “The methodology of user-sensitive service design within urban planning.” Environment and Planning B, 37(5). (I’m seriously in love with this paper. It is the kind of planning I want to do, and — sad to say — not really the planning I am being taught....
Dec 15th
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It’s taken an absolutely obscene amount of time (i.e. over a year), but I think I finally know what I want to say about Twitter and urban planning.
Dec 15th
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“There’s one version of the story that goes: There is someone out there....”
– Ellen Ripley Saved My Life | The Awl
Dec 13th
How can I hold the part of me that only you can carry? It needs a strength I have not found. — Toad The Wet Sprocket, “I Will Not Take These Things For Granted”
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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“Much as by the 1960s, dissenting writers like Jane Jacobs and Aldo Rossi were...”
– Malcolm McCullough, Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing and Environmental Knowing (p.12)
Dec 4th