Amazing: http://kottke.org/15/03/the-algorithmic-sea
Computer Science
Technology
Life
People
Marcy Borders, made famous as the subject of ‘The Dust Lady’ photograph by Stan Honda, has died following a year-long battle with cancer. As a 28-year old Bank Of America employee, she’d barely escaped from the 81st floor of the North Tower before it collapsed, saved in the end perhaps by someone who pulled her […]
Bits & Bobs
History
Technology
Found these while poking around the warehouse earlier. Windows 95 installer, all thirteen disks! Twenty years young.
Arts
People
Photography
Interview with Joel Meyerowitz where he discusses the way he approaches his work. “When I think about my photographs, I understand that my interest all along has not been in identifying a singular thing, but in photographing the relationship between things. The unspoken relationship, the tacit relationship, the impending relationship. All of these variables are […]
Government
Military
The new 10 year Defence white paper is to be published today – “Government plans to strengthen Defence Forces” (RTÉ): The Government is to provide new and upgraded equipment for the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps, including new aircraft, naval ships and armoured personnel carriers. The plan also commits to doubling the number of […]
Computing
Technology
“Happy Birthday, Linux!”, announced slashdot today. I’ve been a user for a long time, my first direct experience of Linux was with a tiny district that shipped on four floppy disks, which even back in 1996 (I think, maybe 1997) was tight. I still remember being amazed that it could read from floppy while doing […]
Advertising
Environment
Jesus Wept
“Irish Water accused of endangering Lahinch’s Blue Flag” (Irish Examiner)
Politics
Privilege
Amanda Marcotte makes an link between GOP nominee hopeful Donald Trump and the ‘Sad/Rabid Puppies’ over on the Slate: As Jeet Heer at the New Republic notes in a piece about Donald Trump, this kind of reactionary rhetoric is often framed as populist, but it is in fact “the voice of aggrieved privilege—of those who already are doing […]
Cities for People
Cycling
Transport
The FT contradicts itself a bit here I think: The works-traffic is being compounded by large construction projects, many of them residential, such as those at the Nine Elms area in south-west London and Elephant and Castle, a symbol of the rampant property market in the capital. More capacity is also being taken up by […]