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Inspiration
January 23, 2010 – 11:58 pm
is best when it comes from unlikely sources. Two examples from today.
1. I saw The Road last night (good, depressing post-apocalyptic film) and was googling Cormac McCarthy today, and came across an interview with him done by the Wall Street Journal. Read More
Progress without politics
November 2, 2009 – 2:09 am
This is the vision Mike Bloomberg offers us:
Why not, at the same time: decision without debate! Council without councillors! Might as well do away with elections as well, since all that messy politics stuff just tends to get in the way of our otherwise inevitable progress towards utopia.
Beer in America
September 7, 2009 – 8:59 am
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
