Great post about Christopher Alexander’s work and influence via The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, originally published at the Metropolis […]
The hype about the “neuron brain model” Spaun made me think of my skeptical FringeWare Review piece about storing or
For the last two decades I’ve been preaching about the limits of “community management” – no one can “own” a
Jeremy Grantham has been doing the math, and is convinced that world resources are way insufficient to support the current
Genius architect Pliny Fisk of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems is featured in a GE Focus Forward short
I’m posting this here because someone saw my post about it on Twitter, and wondered why there wasn’t more about
Amazing video of starling swarms. Murmuration from Islands & Rivers on Vimeo.
We just watched the excellent documentary “Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story” on TCM, and it inspired a cascade of
Animation compiled from NASA satellite images shows evolution and movement of the massive Hurricane Sandy: Check stats and images at
Dr. Richard Dawkins challenges global religious superstition and anti-science fundamentalism. In this video from Slashdot, he makes a point similar
Steven Levy wrote the book on Google (In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives); now Google’s
In 1998 I wrote a piece about Winsor McCay’s surreal comic, Little Nemo’s Adventures in Slumberland, for the webzine version