Why are architecture firm sites always so ass? Great stuff here - Vibronic Environments/PS1, Lobbi-ports - hard to get at.

Fortune famously favoring the well-prepared, Zipcar and its business model seem to have "lucked out" in cash-strapped 2009.

When you're Lebbeus Woods, apparently you can get rockstars like DeLanda to guest-blog for you. But first you have to be Lebbeus Woods. : . )

It's all right here. Double - no: triple - HOOAH.

OK, it's not that I necessarily disagree with any of these ideas: they're, after all, almost exactly how we're doing "The City Is Here For You To Use." But *yet another* cute gimmicky name for something? It can't just be "this is the way we do books now"? (And yes, I know, I of all people should keep my mouth shut about cute gimmicky names.)

In partial fulfillment of the Weiserian project.

Via Timo

A self-evidently indispensable tool I could certainly have used THREE YEARS AGO!

Fabien's final report on the MIT SENSEable Cities Lab event he organized last month.

OMG thanks Liz Goodman! Huge mega-score of "urban media interfaces," interactive/responsive façades, etc.

Nicely resolved. Wonder why they refer to it as "touchless," though?

The preceding three links courtesy of Peder Burgaard - thanks!

Do artifacts have politics? A stutterstep from Newman's left praxis to Davis's scanscape.

Dates to 1999. Prescient, mostly sadly so.

Helsinki fits out its buses with Linux servers. A project filled with Yes...and so very, very timely.

Via mikek: Celebration students, differential permissioning & digitally-mediated access control.

Yes.

"Compact, wireless, throwable 360° mobile display system." As far as I can tell, basically a vision grenade.

"Software- and hardware-based system for real-time monitoring of multiple surveillance devices, known as Strategic Operations Centers"

For reference.

Dislike the word "intelligence" in this context, but nicely executed otherwise. Would have liked a bit more grit and hassle, maybe.

I read that title a little differently than they do. : . )

How could I possibly have missed this?

Looks like we're right on time. : . )

This is what "Cradle to Cradle" was printed on. Would be very interested, if remotely economic.

Via John Emerson. Could not possibly be more timely.