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Congress for the New Urbanism | Freeways Without Futures
"the top-ten locations in North America where the opportunity is greatest to stimulate valuable revitalization by replacing aging urban highways with boulevards and other cost-saving urban alternatives."
planning  demo  future  nTopia 
september 2008 by bkerr
University of Michigan CAUP | Global Suburbs
March 7 and 8, 2008. "This conference seeks to examine global suburban development broadly to understand not only the past and present character of suburbia, but also with the hopes of understanding and guiding future development."
umich  events  urban  planning  suburbitude  future  handwavium  etc  via:mahatm 
february 2008 by bkerr
SteamPunk Magazine | A SteamPunk’s Guide to the Apocalypse
"Our Future lies in an honest Technology, a Technology that is within our Reach, a Technology that will not abandon us, a Technology that requires not the dark Oils of subterranean Caverns."
steampunk  apocalypse  fallout  survival  boon-companion  dismal  ruinous  future  end-of-the-war-game 
october 2007 by bkerr
The Nation | Woody Guthrie, by Steve Earle (July 21, 2003)
"As much as we need him right now, I wouldn't wish this post-9/11 world on Woody. He hated Irving Berlin's 'God Bless America' more than any other song in the world."
guthrie  earle  dylan  anomalous  intersection  okemah  oklahoma  dust-bowl  back-to-california  migrant  okies  communist  in-the-red  blue  white  organic  social  conscience  ultimate  hillbilly  autodidact  selfsabotage  nostalgiac  musical  future 
september 2007 by bkerr
The Huffington Post | Alan Gutierrez: When The Saints Go Marching In
"This city of New Orleans is a city of yes and no. Yes, we want you to visit because our economy depends on it. No, we are not okay. I spend most of my time in the city of no."
neworleans  development  future  yes  no  (no) 
august 2007 by bkerr
The Vault -- a Fallout wiki | Timeline
"Much of the following text comes from the timeline in Fallout Bible 0, written by Chris Avellone ... Additionally, this timeline includes all dates mentioned in Fallout and Fallout 2 holodisks, in the dialogues, and in old design documents."
games  fallout  wiki  life-in-the-vault  future  sf  timeline 
july 2007 by bkerr
anonymous cowgirl | ubifarm
"Gardens, farms and markets might have their own RSS feeds. My phone ought to tell me when arugula is available in Davis Square."
ubifarm  pervasive  agriculture  eloquent  markets  communicative  soil  cybernetic  lunch  future  s-s-s-spime 
july 2007 by bkerr
globeandmail.com | William Gibson Pining for Toronto's 'gone world'
College Hostel beckons: "Only the febrile tackiness of Yonge below Bloor preserves something of my past, and I invariably find myself walking there, considering how the cheap, flashy goods of the 21st century resemble the cheap flashy goods of the 20th."
toronto  canada  lost  retro  futurism  urban  cyberkipple  future  nostalgia 
may 2007 by bkerr
Design Observer | Al Gore for President
Yet another Gore 200X meliorism, laden with stirring Bruce Flatware futurological rhetoric: "Is it naive to cast a vote based on the candidate who most believes in the future, everyone's future? Or is it, quite frankly, necessary?"
politics  social  design  future  cost  s-s-s-spime  eco  everythinig  futurism 
may 2007 by bkerr
page of text . com
Like image bucket or tinyurl, but for micro wiki pages.
word-lines  micro  wiki  virus  introducing-your  content-addressable  future 
may 2007 by bkerr
New York Times | ‘The Joy of Drinking’ excerpt, book by Barbara Holland
Quoth britta: "a 'carefree history' tells the story of how 'civilization begins with fermentation.'"
drink  booze  alcohol  history  human  past  future  behavior  two-shots-of-happy  one-shot-of-sad 
may 2007 by bkerr
90% Crud | Detroit Roundup
George on Rep. Walberg's quote: "What's great about this is that the analogy is arguing that 80% of Iraq and Detroit are 'reasonably under control' which means the guy is using Detroit as a point somewhere on the line between IEDs and Broadway musicals."
detroit  detritus  michigan  rustbelt  real-estate  future  combat  employee  compensation  etc 
march 2007 by bkerr
Lion Kimbro’s Blog | Local Names Update
On Lion's agenda: "CLI interpreter -- Write a simple, very basic, single-file CLI interpreter for reading a Local Names 1.5 namespace description, and resolving a search path." This is the biggie for us Mac OS types.
local  names  localnames  hypertext  writing  interface  future  status  sed 
march 2007 by bkerr
steampunk magazine
"...is dedicated to promoting steampunk as a culture, as more than a sub-category of fiction. It is a journal of fashion, music, misapplied technology and chaos. And fiction." Volume 1 out now, free download or $3 by mail.
steampunk  zine  retro  future  tech  nostalgia 
march 2007 by bkerr
Foreign Office | Children of Men
Media + multimedia + interactive media from "Children of Men" -- nice to get a closer look at some of the micro details in a very hectic haptic happening movie.
media  advertising  ui  interaction  design  future  lit  sf  politics 
february 2007 by bkerr
Jack Lessenberry | Essay: Michigan's Future - 2/27/07
"I know some educated and cultured conservatives, and when they want to get away for an interesting weekend, they generally don’t go to rural Alabama. They go to high-tax places like New York City or Los Angeles or Boston."
michigan  rustbelt  taxation  crap  future 
february 2007 by bkerr
Warning Signs - a photoset on Flickr
Larger versions of the "Warning Signs for Tomorrow" (see previous link).
warning  signage  future  spime  rfid  grey-goo  etc  horror  via:beyondthebeyond 
october 2006 by bkerr
Cinematical | Shall We Play A Game... Again?
"This isn't the first time the world has been threatened by a sequel to the 1983 Matthew Broderick vehicle and quintessential 80s flick War Games."
movies  war  games  past  future 
october 2006 by bkerr
Amazon Business Solutions - Fulfillment by Amazon
Bookmarked because I come back to this page every couple of days and think about the future.
amazon  distributed  retail  service  commerce  future 
september 2006 by bkerr
The Goodspeed Update | Michigan Plans ‘Aerotropolis’
Rob reports on student projects from a January 2006 design exercise in developments re: activity around DTW and Willow Run airports. Aficionados of RoboCop will note the similarity of several designs to "Delta City."
michigan  detroit  airport  architecture  urban  planning  future 
september 2006 by bkerr
10,000 Reasons Civilization is Doomed
Well, 928 reasons at this writing (and three days after site launches).
humans  future  doom 
august 2006 by bkerr
for brian on Flickr
Finally, Dan's annotated picture of the future bag.
future  bag 
june 2006 by bkerr
Product - JUMBO Versipack
And here's a one with a few more inches.
future  bag 
june 2006 by bkerr
Product - Fatboy Versipack
Dan's bag, this is incredible.
future  bag 
june 2006 by bkerr
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
"...is a community effort to catalog works of fiction. It links together various types of bibliographic data: author bibliographies, publication bibliographies, award listings, magazine content listings, anthology and collection content listings, and fort
lit  sf  fiction  bibliography  past  future  via:ryanmax 
june 2006 by bkerr
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