vagabondscrawl
shiny bits from my mental wanderings
The Urumqi Mass Incident →
A mass incident occurred in Urumqi (Xinjiang) on July 5, 2009. This is a continuously updated post.
Sun 05 Jul
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The Choice of Cities →
Cities are technological artifacts, the largest technology we make. Their impact is out of proportion to the number of humans living in them. As the chart above shows, the percentage…
Thu 02 Jul
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Painting Over Silence Q and A with Mama Cutsworth →
What was the last great concert you saw?
That would be the Danny Michel show at the new West End, with my dear
friend Jo Snyder [Sixty Stories/Anthem Red] opening for him. Both of their
sets made…
That would be the Danny Michel show at the new West End, with my dear
friend Jo Snyder [Sixty Stories/Anthem Red] opening for him. Both of their
sets made…
Thu 02 Jul
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The War-driver's delight: WiFi treasure hunting in Aspyr's Treasure World →
The most important thing you need to know about Treasure World — the just-released DS game from developer Aspyr — is that it, and by it I mean the actual DS cart that you snap in and…
Thu 02 Jul
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Teen Totes Walkman, Trades iPod for Embarrassment →
The BBC convinced a 13-year-old boy to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week. How do you think that worked out?
Mon 29 Jun
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toppled →
At around 5:30am on June 27, an unoccupied building still under construction at Lianhuanan Road in the Minxing district of Shanghai city toppled over. One worker was killed. According to…
Sun 28 Jun
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Japan hand →
“Japan hand” is a term I dislike. There’s something colonial or corporate about it, something (let’s drop the false distinction between those historical phases) colonial-corporate. It’s used in…
Sun 28 Jun
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Two Augmented Reality Technologies That Are About To Change The World [Futurism] →
Augmented reality is a technology futurists and scifi authors like Vernor Vinge have been talking about for decades. Now the tech has matured and is entering the market. Two videos of new…
Sat 27 Jun
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Never land. →
(First published on Click Opera March 13th, 2005.)
One of the reasons the Michael Jackson trial is so unfortunate is that the world of Either-Or will pass judgment on a creature of Yet-Also. The…
One of the reasons the Michael Jackson trial is so unfortunate is that the world of Either-Or will pass judgment on a creature of Yet-Also. The…
Fri 26 Jun
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HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? By Lera Boroditsky →
Instead of words like “right,” “left,” “forward,” and “back,” which, as commonly used in English, define space relative to an observer, the Kuuk Thaayorre, like many other Aboriginal groups, use…
Thu 25 Jun
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