"Amsterdam is undergoing a historic process of regeneration. Much of the city's reserve of social housing is being transformed into luxury accommodation for the growing numbers of "creative economy" employees. Meanwhile, waiting lists for the remaining social housing are flooded by former occupants forced out of their homes and neighbourhoods by renovation programmes. Merijn Oudenampsen describes a process of urban "rebirth" through place branding and social cleansing."

Capital & "Creativity" at work in Amsterdam.

(.org) 17 gb of FOREX data. whoa. nice name.

Response to the Richard Florida piece in the Atlantic. I almost bought the magazine to read the article. The fact that I didn't, and am instead bookmarking a blog post about it, goes to Varnelis' point.

got it.

What, Microsoft is still around?

Think how much better del.icio.us and flickr will be when MSFT owns them!

The first 2 things on the Free-Market Walking tour of the Loop are (a) the reversal of the Chicago River and the many bascule bridges (big gov't x 2). On the next page, the Eastland disaster is somehow blamed on regulations demanding lifeboats (???)

World map of 'countries of origin for clothes in Wal-Mart stores.' visual ref: Boetti's quilt-flag-map

"USA ... promote[d] globalization, whatever its benefits, ha[s] been the most powerful force of political, economic, social, & cultural destabilization ... since WWII; [it] resembles the '... everlasting uncertainty and agitation' forecast by Marx+Engels"

I could only make it through the first verse.

'"This one's for you, Walt," the artist quipped late one night as he urinated on a Winnie the Pooh figure'

logo guidelines: "The clearspace (or “whitespace”) surrounding the Altria Group wordmark and the Mosaic symbol is a part of the Altria Group logo and must not be changed or removed."