Getting to this inexcusably late. Combine this becoming scheme with the sort of frameworks I've spent so much time thinking about and you've got a responsively green urban fabric of impressive potential.

Regrettably commerce-oriented, but otherwise absolutely right-on. "Inhabit the city as though it were your house." NB There's no reason why the plug-in services here specified as commercial ventures couldn't be swapped out for free or non-cash-economy alternatives.

Present w/o further comment...except for a big fat "Sigh."

Meejin Yoon's building-scale (and then some) algae-fueled bioreactor. Take that, viridians! See also http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/09/21/reenvisioning-bostons-stalled-project-as-bio-fuel-growing-eco-pods/

Via Migurski, this paper takes a fresh look at the assumptions and structures underlying the capitalist economy. Stoked.

Watts uses these tropes over and over again, generally as a (cynical and defeated?) way to describe flirting, banter and sexual display in social settings.

Rain points straight at the elephant in the room: Kindle *is* Whispernet; service trumps object. This is a point I've tried to make at Big N, to no avail. There will be further pain for competitors when the nicely-resolved Kindle 2 rolls in a few weeks. (Via Timo.)

Great thinking here.

Saffo: “The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded." YES.