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“Then along came the reborn Caesar salad. Invented in a Tijuana restaurant in the...”
– Rise of the modern romaine empire - latimes.com
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“And in disaster after disaster, at least since the San Francisco earthquake of...”
– Rebecca Solnit: In Haiti, Words Can Kill | TomDispatch
Haiti Rewired →
an ongoing conversation about technology, infrastructure, and the future of Haiti
Frederick Douglass on Haiti, 1893 →
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Anarchist"
While things were going on in Europe, Our most used term of scorn or abuse Was “bushwa.” We employed it correctly, But we thought it was French for “bullshit.” I lived in Toledo, Ohio, On Delaware Avenue, the line Between the rich and poor neighborhoods. We played in the jungles by Ten Mile Creek, And along the golf course in Ottawa Park. There were two classes of kids, and they Had...
The ZEROprize →
“Zerofootprint is offering the ZEROprize™ to the design team who can take an older concrete high-rise structure and, using re-skinning along with other retrofitting technologies, reduce its carbon, water, and energy footprint to net zero while also maintaining the highest architectural design standards.”
“How do you pivot from “I don’t want this anymore” to “I...”
– Twitter / Tim Carmody
“Gordon Brown said to me, ‘How should the UK make the best use of the...”
– UK’s free data website ‘is a world showcase’
“The ongoing sequence of flares signals a sharp upturn in solar activity. Before...”
– SpaceWeather.com
app.itize.us →
app.itize.us is a painstakingly curated presentation of the best produced and designed iPhone applications that are available for download via the App Store.
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Tanked Up Beyond All Reason →
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“FRISCO it was called in that affection which prompts expression in diminutives....”
– San Francisco, 1906: The City That Has Fallen
Often called “the best thing ever written about San Francisco” in the first half of the 20th century.
“The operation is called a hemicraniectomy and is often used when the brain...”
– Mind Hacks: Patients with no skull are a window on brain activity
100 Percent Renewable?: One Danish Island... →
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The Tombstones of Dead Virtual Worlds
I found this in the old deleted archives of my last website from June ‘08… I think it explains a lot.
An incredible series of tweets between Sean Bonner and Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin about the Great Friendster Diaspora got me thinking about the death of virtual worlds that are not part of the Internet. In my nerdiest days, I used to frequent bulletin board systems that made my...
