"study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt"

2009 summit. can we please be over websites that are images. lame. good speakers, tho.

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.

Wrong on so many details, but point taken. "Thirty years after the premiere of Star Wars, the strange chimpanzee crossed another threshold. For the first time in fifty-five hundred years of building cities, more of humanity now lives in them than in rural settlements. In the coming years there will be countless master plans for new mega-cities in Africa, Asia, and South America. We can only hope that these plans will be drawn by disciples of Jane Jacobs, students of Robert Morris, admirers of Robert Smithson, and fans of Star Wars."

Geoff finds alienation exciting.

"For example, Cimicchi is hoping to install electronically controlled access gates in Orvieto, which would grant entrance exclusively to city residents."

Protect culture || embalm culture (via tmonkey)

As in Cheap Fast and. Full text of a techno-utopian potboiler by fmr exec ed of Wired. Notable bc I read a chapter in the library 10 years ago, forgot the title, then found it again by googling 5 common words.

Santa statue in St. Nick's hometown of Demre, Turkey. (he displaced a Russian Orthodox version)

"A 'bolo' is the basic agreement (between individuals), a direct personal context for living, producing and dying." // plan for collectivist communism in groups of ~500.

"The REAL hot 100 are young women who are smart, savvy, and actively trying to make the world a better place. They contradict the popular notion that sex appeal is all young women have to offer. "