November 2008
23 posts
“However, giving in to cynicism and failure isn’t an option either....”
– The N-Judah Chronicles: This Won’t End Well: More MUNI Budget Cuts = Even Worse Service, Politicians Respond With Collective Yawn In Their Hybrid SUVs
A little boosterism, a little grassroots, a little bright spot.
Watchbstriddy:
“Dawn and dusk in mini San Francisco”
This is great work; really, really beautiful (and of course I love me some Reckoner.) I only wish it ran longer.
It reminds me of other great time-lapse treatments of SF & the bay area:
Hi-Def San Francisco’s bay views from Sausalito
The View at UCB Lawrence Hall of Science (check out the archive of highlights)
tumbledore:
SF + tilt-shift...
“…arguably the biggest winners of the Nov. 4 vote are located at the...”
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The Triumph Of The Creative Class | Newgeography.com
Heartening if overly optimistic editorial on the impending rise to power of the creative class, and the crumble of bloated, outmoded economic sectors and “old business” hierarchies, based loosely on the theories of Richard...
tumbledore:
Vampire Weekend - “The Kids Don’t...
Amidst all the hope and change and possibility, a... →
California says yes to high speed rail, Obama supports an enriched midwestern passenger rail system out of hub city Chicago, Joe Biden loves Amtrak, and Denver sees property values rise directly proportionate to new light rail lines. Here’s hoping the new administration can provide the policy and resources to support the sorely-needed efficient network of rail transit nationwide. In other...
“Pour la 1ere fois de ma vie, j’aimerais être américain ! L’Amérique vient...”
– Comment in Le Monde, the major French newspaper. Translation: ”For the first time in my life, I would love to be American! America has come to prove why she is America!” (via katelosse)
The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed
I...
Webster's Word of the Day : extricate
bstriddy:
Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day November 4, 2008 extricate \EK-struh-kayt\ verb Meaning 1 : to distinguish from a related thing 2 : to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty
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Mmm hmmm! Message received, crafty word wardens!
this is one of my favorite words.
“The idea of creating an urban space inside the shopping mall seems to be de...”
– New Malls, Old Ideas - MetropolisMag
A perfect, concrete example of why American public policy errs in not considering historic architectural examples “important” enough to warrant skilled regulation (as in Europe’s ministries of antiquities, or, you know, YES ON PROP J!) . As the...