January 2012
24 posts
December 2011
34 posts
An Open Letter To Newt Gingrich From A Black Kid... →
I hope you win your party’s nomination. So that poor and impoverished families can at least experience four more years of a man working diligently to help them and the communities they call home that you have proven to know nothing about. President number 44.
Design is Horseshit! (?) →
If you, like @yongfook, still think design is limited to how things look then read this, take his advice, and fail.
yongfook:
In direct response to: http://designerfund.com/infographic I’ve created products / services in the past that have garnered praise for their design. I love good design and I am good at design. But I’ve never called myself a designer. Here’s my pitch. This talk of...
How New York City Won The 2012 Games In the End... →
“Contrary to popular belief, the New York City Olympic plan has largely been implemented,” said Mitchell Moss, director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at New York University and author of the report, “How New York City Won the Olympics.”
New York’s emphasis, according to Moss, was on productive use of infrastructure enhancements throughout the city to meet long-range...
Crowdsourcing Innovation In New York City: Cornell... →
Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal, contest really, is about the City giving away land (either Governors Island, the Navy Yard, or Roosevelt Island) and “up to $100 million in infrastructure upgrades.” The prize, to be announced soon after the New Year, will go to a university with the best plan for bringing a brand spanking new Engineering and Applied Science campus into the heart of New York City.
“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the...”
– ― H.G. Wells
“Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to...”
– Eloi Cole, the young man arrested earlier this week for attempted sabotage of the Large Hadron Collider. He had “travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.”
via: CNet
