I recently started skating again… at the old abandoned mental institution – Brook Run. DeKalb County has since seen the value in the property and converted the empty lots into dog trails and crowded playgrounds with colorful plastic monkey bars. But in the back, beyond the No Trespassing signs and ramshackle
Why The Web Is Hitting A Wall [http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_12/b3976103.htm?campaign_id=bier_tc] – The Luddites Strike Back or simply saturation point? I’ve actually been considering taking a break from all the tech stuff for a few weeks (aside from mandatory work
Ladytron – Witching Hour My brother found this band for me on low-and-behold…myspace. They also did a version of Like Eating Glass on the Bloc Party remix record. Their name is fitting – two girls in low, icy harmony, alluding to that blue-light sci-fi movie from the 80s. High Rise opens
Since progress has pretty much come to a dead stop in the endeavor [http://www.daydalus.net/book2k5/], I might as well make the most of it and do some form of wrap-up. Perhaps it was a mistake to begin reading Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire. The series
Paul Saffo Interview [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/02/19/BUG86H9O6N1.DTL] : Stanford Professor and future-tech watcher. Lots of interesting stuff on media, technology and culture – a number of issues I’ve brought up before in this blog. Choice quote: *Take cyberspace as an