Collected posts from the various blogs I’ve contributed to since 2002.
Make yourself at home in Switzerland | Travel | Guardian Unlimited “one little Swiss city is going its own way by creating a Stadt Lounge (city lounge). A public living room complete with sofas, lamps, rugs (they’re actually Japanese gingko trees, but use your imagination here), tables and a great big red carpet rol (tags: switzerland urbanism)
(gs) Ruby on Rails 502 Proxy Error .: (mt) KnowledgeBase Apparently proxied requests on mediatemple time out after 20seconds. That’s fine in normal use, but explains some problems I’ve had with admin functions that involve uploading and processing CSV files. (tags: mediatemple proxying rubyonrails)
Revealed: MI5’s role in torture flight hell | UK News | The Observer Sadly it’s not much surprise that MI5 have been complicit in the CIA’s black ops and extraordinary rendition (tags: extraordinaryrendition mi5 secretservice) Click of the Light / Start of the Dream - Books & Culture David Dark turns his attention to The Arcade Fire’s albums (tags: arcadefire daviddark music) CoffeeGeek - Cafe Culture Downunder Commentary on Australia and New Zealand’s coffee/espresso culture. A good counterpoint to my blog entry on the subject from a few weeks ago. ...
David Byrne: NYC: Knee Plays, Interactivity vs. Storytelling, The Living Rock Interesting thoughts towards the end on whether videogames can ever engage us in the same way as other artworks, and the role of narrative in that. (tags: art davidbyrne emergence engagement videogames) Freed from the ’tyranny of the urgent,’ Julie Lee sings again - Tennesseean Coverage of Julie’s new (self-released) album, which is (naturally) wonderful (tags: julielee music)
Our time in Asia is going very well indeed, but updates and photos may be slow coming as my laptop, temperamental for the past few months, is now completely refusing to boot and the nearest Apple Store is some thousands of miles away. More soon.
BBC NEWS | ‘Single’ euro train fare planned Great news. We’re very much looking forward to being able to travel by train. (tags: environment trains transport) “Bush Commutes Libby’s Sentence” (Harper’s Magazine) “This act can only heighten concerns about the putrid state of justice in Bush’s Administration, and it must heighten our resolve to stand against it.” (tags: abovethelaw georgewbush harpers scooterlibby)
I have a new hero and her name is Mika Brzezinski | Guardian Unlimited What really strikes me in the clip of Mike Brzenzinski refusing to lead with a Paris Hilton story is the refusal of her co-presenters to take her seriously. Sexism is clearly alive and well, and something to be broadcast to the world on MSNBC. (tags: broadcast journalism)
Ghost Cities Of 2100 - Forbes.com Interesting consideration of which cities may disappear, but would be better if it considered potential impacts of oil shortages and carbon rationing. I wonder if such trends could save Detroit as suburbs become more difficult places to live? (via cityofs (tags: detroit ghostcities urbanism)
ongoing · mod_atom Very nice. The atom publishing protocol as an apache2 module. Bake atom directly into your web server (tags: apache app atom) Social websites expose class divide | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology Danah Boyd argues that use of MySpace vs. Facebook is divided along class lines. (tags: forblog myspace) OpenID: Why, how, 37signals Basecamp now supports OpenID and unsurprisingly the 37signals guys are working on communicating OpenId nice and simply (tags: 37signals openid)
For as long as we’ve been planning our current trip we knew we’d only have time for the most cursory of experiences of each place. Driving through New Zealand is a great way to see the country, but it’s also a good way to get a sense of how much you’re missing. In the end it was good that we hadn’t planned to go further south than Christchurch as the far south was largely blocked off by snow, but we now know we very much want to go there eventually. ...