One of my favourite things about living in the States so far is that the bountiful presence of micro-brew beer, and the ease with which it can be obtained. A three-minute walk puts me in the front door of a neighbourhood deli offering some decent standards like Guinness, Red Stripe, and Corona. For a only a slightly longer walk or bike ride, I can be treated to a bamboozling beernocopia the likes of which I have only ever seen approximated when I lived in Chicoutimi, Read More
Some support for Schumpeter
September 2, 2009 – 7:40 pm
The last book I read was Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Social, and Democracy, a book famous for coining the phrase “creative destruction” as a description of the process inherent to capitalism whereby old methods of production and commodities are incessantly obsolesced and replaced–an insight drawn, I believe, from Marx’s talk about capitalism constantly revolutionizing the means of production (compare also Deleuze and Guattari on on de/reterritorialization).
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Smart suburb planning in NYC, 100 years ago
August 27, 2009 – 5:30 pm
I recently moved to New York City (Brooklyn, to be specific) and in an interesting twist came across a Slate magazine slideshow (Forest Hills Gardens) via a tweet from one of my favourite Toronto-based publications, Spacing magazine. The article/photo essay details the principles enacted by turn of the 19th-century Forest Hills Gardens community, a suburb 20 minutes from Manhattan that is transit-oriented, walkable, and features mixed-use zoning and a variety of single-family dwellings, from attached to freestanding.
Roll with rolling razor!
August 25, 2009 – 11:04 pm
Oh my God! I can’t wait to see the advantages! I think I’ll click the link! On second thought, no I won’t!
Paragraph-level commenting for Wordpress
August 24, 2009 – 7:15 pm
The team from the Institute for the Future of the Book team have announced the release of digress.it, a completely overhauled version of the old Commentpress theme for Wordpress, which allowed paragraph-level commenting. Digress.it is a plugin which Read More
Facebook uses browser-specific body classes
August 19, 2009 – 11:00 pm
Having recently worked on a website for which page load and performance was really important, I’ve found myself viewing the source code for more and more sites. Taking a look at Facebook recently revealed that they use browser-specific classes on the body element, so that if you’re browsing with Safari 4, you’ll see something like: Read More
