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art  science  writing  telegram 
6 days ago by fakeisthenewreal
Curious Rat - Home - I'm Giving Up Reading for a Year
This reminds me: I'm going to give up thinking for a year.
internet  satire  writing 
26 days ago by fakeisthenewreal
How I met my wife by Jack Winter
"It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate."
writing  humor  language 
6 weeks ago by fakeisthenewreal
Are Women People? | The Hairpin
Why We Oppose Pockets for Women

1. Because pockets are not a natural right.
2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did they would have them.
3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them.
writing  history  feminism  funny 
january 2012 by fakeisthenewreal
Goblinbooks: I Was Shitting You People - A Message From Ayn Rand
flagged as fantastic
"We laughed for twenty minutes. I was tearing up, and Ronnie was wheezing like he was going to stroke out. I didn't even know where I was going with this idea. But it felt just so fucking wrong. In a good way. In a great way."
writing  humor  politics 
january 2012 by fakeisthenewreal
A Modest Proposal - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic
on white gentrification in black neighborhoods
satire  writing  urban  usa  race 
august 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Finding the Potential in Vacant Lots - In the Garden - NYTimes.com
fenced.lots  via:kio  news  writing  vacant  ecology 
august 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Gowanus Canal: A rancid canal runs through it - latimes.com
gowanus  writing  nyc  brooklyn 
august 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
36 Hours in Portland, Me. - NYTimes.com
maine  portland  travel  writing 
august 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
The Four Kinds Of Pro-Electoral College Arguments | The New Republic
"Because the electoral college is terrible."
usa  electoral  writing 
july 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Paris Review – Harvard and Class, Misha Glouberman
Harvard undergrad unhappy that he had to live on campus, couldn't participate in the "life of the city." NOTE TO HARVARD UNDERGRADS: Cambridge does not like you, does not want you around.
harvard  usa  writing  city  canada 
july 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
A Reporter at Large: TO THE POTTER'S FIELD : The New Yorker
1993 story on the Hart Island Potter's Field.
writing  nyc  death 
june 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
The New Yorker Hearts Suburbs | The New Republic
"Cities versus suburbs? Get over it. Welcome to the metropolitan century."
urban  density  writing  usa 
june 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Revamp rezoning for city's new age | Crain's New York Business
"By building on an antiquated framework, however, we have created a conflicted, confusing document (which, for instance, still regulates blacksmiths and requires special permits to build a health club—often requiring years for approval and entailing thousands of dollars in consulting fees). As a result, the discussion of what the city of the future should look like is often restricted to those with the expertise to understand the zoning resolution, not those who are most affected by it."
zoning  planning  writing  nyc 
june 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
An 'Economic Burden' Google Can No Longer Bear? - James Fallows - Technology - The Atlantic
Abuse of Google Translate is rendering it ineffective because it's relying on its own products to learn languages.
writing  language  internet 
june 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Tales From the Database - Mile High Comics, Chuck Rozanski
Column by Mile High founder, ran 01-08.
comics  writing  archive 
june 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
The High Price of the New Beijing by Ian Johnson | The New York Review of Books
planning  preservation  china  beijing  writing  from instapaper
june 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Op-Ed: Sticks and Stones; Ai Weiwei and the Uses of Architecture | Features | Archinect
known  writing  china  architecture  from instapaper
may 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
LRB · Will Self · The Frowniest Spot on Earth (print version)
writing  technology  future  planning  bad_ideas  from instapaper
may 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Bike Lane Battle: Role Of Senator's Wife, Ex-DOT Boss, Unclear - City Limits Magazine - CityLimits.org
bike  nyc  brooklyn  writing 
may 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Reconsidering Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of American Planning: Places: Design Observer
Tommy Camp lays out the sad decline of physical planning and the marginalization of a profession. 
urban  planning  writing  profession  from instapaper
may 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
S O L I L O Q U Y
"why don't you read the way i write?"

Kenneth Goldsmith
poetry  writing  long_searched_for 
may 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Of timeshares and tenements - Op-Ed - Domus
By Cassim. Hot-bunking, granny flats, and the speculation on the future housing in NYC.
nyc  housing  known  writing 
may 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
How to disappear completely
"As another example, I worked with a woman who, if you entered her name online, the only thing that was known about her was that her father was selling his company for $45 million. That was a big threat. We took her name and took similar slices of information about her and built all these characters, fake individuals around her. Thats becoming something more in demand with clients."
identity  technology  social  writing 
may 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Profiles: A Pryor Love : The New Yorker
Each time someone asked why “that nigger was crazy,” Pryor upped the ante by posing a more profound question. On a trip to a gun shop with David Felton in the early seventies, for example, Pryor asked the salesman, “How come all the targets are black?” The salesman smiled, embarrassed. “Uh, I don’t know, Richard,” he said, shaking his head. “I just—” “No, I mean I always wondered about that, you know?” Pryor said.
writing  comedy  profile  from instapaper
may 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
A Detail About Mob-Pizzeria Connections That New York Magazine Missed - New York Restaurants and Dining - Fork in the Road
well i'll be hornswoggled. and here i thought it was because they were being dicks and/or noble about the whole pie.
nyc  pizza  crime  writing  from twitter_favs
april 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Guernica / Detroitism
detroit  writing  art  photography  urban  from instapaper
april 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
How To Fix the El | Feature | Chicago Reader
In-depth look at making the Howard and Linden lines faster.
chicago  transport  writing 
march 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Is New York really 'too New York' for cycling? | Matt Seaton | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Excellent roundup of the 'bike backlash' around PPW and Central Park.
bike  nyc  writing 
march 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
nuclear  energy  environment  writing 
march 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Snapshots from a rock 'n' roll marriage - Life stories - Salon.com
known  writing 
march 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Under the Gowanus Canal, Flushing Out the Stench - NYTimes.com
“The mussels, syringes, crabs, condoms — this is dirty”
gowanus  brooklyn  nyc  writing  favorite_industrial_waterway 
february 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
Urban Omnibus » Moonlighter Presents… Bjarke Ingels, Neil Freeman and Anthony Graves
nyc  math  architecture  writing  re:fitnr 
february 2011 by fakeisthenewreal
http://www.info2.uqam.ca/~walsh_t/papers/Polychrome.pdf
Read's chromatic polynomial algorithm shown to have worst-case time-complexity of O(n2B(n)), where B(n) is the nth Bell Number. Fun fact: c^n < B(n) < n! for any c, sufficiently large n.
math  combinatorics  research  writing 
november 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
n+1: Claire Denis
"boredom can be oppressive or dominating. It tends to endurance and submission—the brutally long take, the exhausting slow pan, the excruciatingly slow zoom. When a film is boring it bores with its whole soul."
film  writing  france 
october 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
Op-Ed Columnist - The Rage Is Not About Health Care - NYTimes.com
"It’s not happenstance that Frank, Lewis and Cleaver — none of them major Democratic players in the health care push — received a major share of last weekend’s abuse. When you hear demonstrators chant the slogan “Take our country back!,” these are the people they want to take the country back from."
usa  politics  writing  racism 
march 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
FACT OVER FICTION
Kio has a new blog and it looks like a keeper
blog  known  writing 
march 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
H. G. Wells on "Metropolis" (1927)
Review from Time. "There is not one good-looking nor sympathetic nor funny personality in the cast; there is, indeed, no scope at all for looking well or acting like a rational creature amid these mindless, imitative absurdities." i have to say I've always agreed, but have been afraid to admit it.
film  history  writing 
january 2010 by fakeisthenewreal
"Hoboken Daylighting" In Lieu Of Bump-Outs | Planetizen
"vengeful sect that attempts to summon the spirit of Robert Moses every December 18th by smashing two chunks of macadam over a flaming can of Pennzoil"
transport  hoboken  writing  urban  planning  new.jersey 
november 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
California's deficit of common sense -- latimes.com
Solnit speaking truth: "California is rich. Even in the midst of a drought, we have lots of water, and in the midst of a recession, we have lots of money. The problem is one of distribution, not of actual scarcity."
california  economy  water  writing 
november 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Open Data: Coming to a City Near You? | Planetizen
data  writing  planning  urban 
october 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Meandering around something idea-shaped but not quite touching it | Dangerous Precedent
been trying to ignore this wretched "cities are battlesuits" meme. This post is mostly spot on: "It's not a battle."
urban  via:sevensixfive  writing 
october 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
trays
the gsd student journal has a new design. much better.
gsd  writing  known  blog  design  planning 
september 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
Urban Omnibus » The Brooklyn Typology Project
A piece I wrote about my Typology project. Check it out!
brooklyn  planning  art  photography  re:fitnr  nyc  writing  a_gray_veil 
august 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
IDEO’s Urban Pre-Planning // Metropolis Magazine
From 2006 >> Can its “Smart Space” practice shake up the lumbering world of infrastructure, zoning, and public process?
design  marketing  sf  writing 
july 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
fenced lot
kio's new blog for fiction-in-progress
blog  fiction  known  writing 
april 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
SPACEWAR - by Stewart Brand - Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums.
great 1972 article about the great game by the notable Brand. I have this collected in little volume with an essay about Gregory Bateson, somewhere.
game  writing  history  computer 
march 2009 by fakeisthenewreal
sevensixfive: Soft Sites: Masonville Cove
"If Masonville Cove is anything, it is a place without original conditions"
baltimore  writing  landscape  urban  industrial  hidden_patterns 
december 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Star Wars: A New Heap - Triple Canopy
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."
urban  art  culture  writing  criticism  architecture 
december 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Cabinet Magazine Online - Fragments from a History of Ruin
history  ruin  art  writing 
november 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
The Last Traffic Jam by Stewart Udall – The Atlantic (October 1972)
Relying on Middle Eastern oil will be an economic and political disaster! Start building smaller and more efficient cars & public transit.
If only.
depressingly_correct_prediction  energy  writing  magazine  transport  the_sadness 
november 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
"Time, Work-Discipline & Industrial Capitalism" by EP Thompson [PDF]
got it.
via:kio  time  capitalism  work  history  writing 
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
We All Pay for Leona Helmsley’s Bequest to Dogs - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Pleasant little op-ed about limiting tax-deductions for charitable bequests. This is the best part:
"Ray D. Madoff, a professor at Boston College Law School, is writing a book on immortality and the law."
news  writing  law  money  policy 
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
American Murder Mystery
Programs to deconcentrate poverty blamed for higher crime rates in smaller cities. to read.
urban  crime  magazine  writing  planning  policy  housing 
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
RealClearMarkets - Articles - Pols Remain Masters of Domain
Rightist economic critique of public-private development & eminent domain, from a Manhattan Inst. fellow. Invokes JJ, convention center failures, Kelo.
urban  planning  economics  writing 
june 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
The Control of Nature by John McPhee - newyorker.com
"[T]his is not some minor navigational challenge, like shooting rapids in an aircraft carrier. This is the Atchafalaya River."
louisiana  writing  water  atchafalaya 
june 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
The Stupidity of Dignity by Steven Pinker // the New Republic
President's Council on Bioethics: "Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone--a catlike activity that has been made acceptable in informal America..."
stupid  the_sadness  writing  politics  religion  magazine 
may 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Israel’s Unexpected Spinoff From a Holocaust Trial - New York Times
"Stalags, pornographic Hebrew books that mix Nazism, sex and violence"
bizarre  israel  writing  news 
april 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Triple Canopy
brooklyn  art  magazine  internet  writing  reading  culture 
april 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
The Monks of Kublai Khan
"THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND TRAVELS OF RABBAN SAWMA, ENVOY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE MONGOL KHANS TO THE KINGS OF EUROPE, AND MARKOS WHO AS MAR YAHBH-ALLAHA III BECAME PATRIARCH OF THE NESTORIAN CHURCH IN ASIA"
china  history  europe  writing 
march 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Luc Sante : The Unknown Soldier
death  writing  via:kio  nyc 
march 2008 by fakeisthenewreal
Pudd'nhead Wilson Homepage
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins. text and commentary
writing  race  usa  missouri 
december 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Guernica / Riding with Critical Mass
bike  nyc  writing 
december 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
The Degentrification of Red Hook -- New York Magazine
You can't rent a storefront for 2500 in RH
brooklyn  nyc  real_estate  writing 
november 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
The Dudley Square Retail District
Report from the rappaport on Dudley Sq retail health
corestudio1  writing  roxbury  boston 
october 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
"South of Heaven" by Ann Marlowe [Village Voice, August 18, 1992]
Pretty good summing up of God Is My Co-Pilot [altho i don't agree that they're overtly religious]: "I bought black Flag's Damaged and Fred Frith's solo guitar record on the same day & wondered why they weren't the same band"
music  writing  nyc 
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Bush's Amazing Achievement - The New York Review of Books
GWB achieves near consensus from Scowcroft to Chomsky: he sucks. Good run down of a creaking empire.
usa  end_of_rome  war  writing  politics 
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Paleo-Future: Sinclair Lewis Will Be Read Until Year 2000 (1936)
should read: 'most likely to be read in 2000.' Just bought Babbit, so useful to know. Of the 9 other authors listed as most likely to have this distinction, I'd only heard of 6.
future  history  writing 
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Surviving a Month Without Internet by Stephen Elliot [Poets&Writers]
"The urge to screw around is always strongest when the work's not going well. And if you work at a computer, screwing around is only a click away."
internet  writing  sf  time  web 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
"Dear Kergie,

I just found out they used to call you Desolation. That’s funny, because desolate is how I feel when I’m away from you."
writing  island  funny 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
The Thoreau Problem | Rebecca Solnit | Orion magazine
Thoreau picking huckleberries after getting out of jail, the connections between city and country, landscape and politics and why "a passion for justice and pleasure in small things are not incompatible"
writing  politics  landscape  viauntitledprojects  monopoly_on_violence  environment 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Zero News Datapool, MANUEL DE LANDA, MESHWORKS,HIERARCHIES AND INTERFACES
From 1000 yrs of nonlinear history, which has been tagged toread for at least a couple years.
internet  philosophy  ai  writing 
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface
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!
css>flash  writing  toread  viakottke  software  design  development 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Electronic version of esoteric alchemestic hermetic incunable. Features orgasming buildings, paganism. via Peter Lamborn Wilson.
architecture  writing  history  art 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
The Horror at Red Hook by H. P. Lovecraft
"The soul of the beast is omnipresent and triumphant, and Red Hook's legions of blear-eyed, pockmarked youths still chant and curse and howl as they file from abyss to abyss, none knows whence or whither"
writing  fiction  brooklyn 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity, JR Gillis, ed. – (book review) Journal of Social History
I'm going to bookmark a bunch of articles now Ceci, watch out! [review of
ff_paterson  memory  writing  history 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Tom Moody on Sol Lewitt, conceptualism & irrationalism
art  writing 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
FEED SPECIAL ISSUE | Documentary: I, Spy by Kio Stark
Kio explaining Reality TV 3 months before Survivor premiered. Follow link at bottom for an MTV producer misspelling Virilio.
via:kio  writing  known  tv  fake 
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
Joe Milutis
team joe from brown. 'Theogeny of Wal-Mart' is excellent
art  writing  consumption  person 
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
TomDispatch - Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit on Not Forgetting New Orleans
Great/chilling. Filled with amazing details. (scroll past extended intro for article).
writing  new.orleans  katrina  via:criticalspatialpractice 
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal
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