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Twitter Links Interview with Umberto Eco: 'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'
"What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible" The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature.…

March 21 2012, 9:35am | Comments
Portfolio Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean

July 31 2011, 10:28am | Comments
Link The Pathology of Collecting
What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled…

July 11 2011, 4:54am | Comments
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May 15 2011, 6:19am | Comments
Link James Gleick’s History of Information
Gleick makes his case in a sweeping survey that covers the five millenniums of humanity’s engagement with information, from the invention of writing in Sumer to the elevation of information…

March 20 2011, 5:41am | Comments
Link Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter…
Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information…

March 6 2011, 4:43am | Comments
Link ‘World Wide Mind’
Imagine it: a flower blossoming inside the brain, nanometer stalks splitting away from a micrometer stem. Expanding into every available capillary, touching every cubic millimeter of the brain, collecting terabytes…

February 17 2011, 4:40pm | Comments
Link Frameworks for citizen responsiveness, enhanced: Toward a read/write…
Provided that, we can treat the things we encounter in urban environments as system resources, rather than a mute collection of disarticulated buildings, vehicles, sewers and sidewalks. One prospect that…

April 27 2010, 6:35am | Comments
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January 26 2010, 4:30pm | Comments
Link Divine Wilderness
PLANNING IS SOMETHING that people learned from God. The lesson might be said to have begun with the prescriptions God laid out for His earthly habitation among the Israelites: the…

January 8 2010, 10:02am | Comments
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December 8 2009, 1:12pm | Comments
Link Stunning Images of Herds from Above [PICS]
Though the term “herd behaviour” today is most often used when talking about financial markets, it originally described individuals in a group acting together without direction – for example an…

October 4 2009, 5:16pm | Comments
Link Way more about paths at UC Berkeley than…
How architectural and design choices are mediated and ultimately over-ruled by user choice, reflexion, repetition and desire.

May 25 2009, 12:21pm | Comments

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