Effects of real estate market structure on the built environment: "short term
strategies, rather than a higher quality, longer-term approach robs investors of the heart of real
estate’s financial power" and creates a bland, repetitive urbanism

19th C. horror. "The color yellow signifies the decadent and aesthetic attitudes that were fashionable at the turn of the 19th century... suggested that yellow represents decay/disease/mental illness."

30+ pages of of ideas about software design. don't forget to click back to the writer's hilariously overworked flash page. I bet you wanted someone to invent a new, superannoying navigation system, right? me too!

"the name invokes awe among all students of alchemical wisdom." "A true son of Hermes", an even truer son of Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola aka Balthus.

"As a living force the past is ever remade. Heritage cannot be stored in a vault or an attic; the true steward adds his own stamp to his predecessors'."

gegendenkmal

The Counter-Monument: Memory against Itself in Germany Today by James E. Young [jstor lock-out, get ye to NYPL]

Autobio of the great genius.

Political essays going back to 03.