Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 809

The Redesign of Everyday Things

*I hope Henry Petroski is egosurfing the web and drops by to see this baby.
He would appreciate this. In fact Prof. Petroski is pretty much the reason
that *I* can appreciate this.

http://noquedanblogs.com/?p=5892

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Solar Impulse

http://www.solarimpulse.com/common/documents/saveTheDate.php

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Lord Dunsany, Fantasist and Chess Champ

"One art they say is of no use;

The mellow evenings spent at chess,

The thrill, the triumph, and the truce

To every care, are valueless.

"And yet, if all whose hopes were set

On harming man played chess instead,

We should have cities standing yet

Which now are dust upon the dead."

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Fordlandia, the Brazilian Detroit

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=596

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/7/shadesoftarzan.php

*Makes one wonder if there is a "Brazilian Torino" somewhere.
There was a Soviet Torino, "Togliatti"...

http://www.expat.ru/forum/togliatti/100772-togliatti.html

"In the summer of 2005 I told my students in Samara that I was being temporarily transferred to the school's branch in Togliatti (Тольятти; pronounced Tol'yatti), which is a lot closer to Samara as the crow flies than as the bus

Carlaville

"Sarkozy, or at least his advisors, wants to redefine the city and its region in a manner unheard of since Baron Haussmann in the mid-19th century..."

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/architecture_and_design/article5934897.ece

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Compression rot

http://vimeo.com/3750507

"Open the last saved jpeg image

Save it as a new jpeg image with slightly more compression

Repeat 600 times"

Generation Loss from hadto on Vimeo.

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Barcode Artist

Thanks for checking out my Barcode Art installation at the SXSW Plutopia Party, and joining my mailing list. (((Heck no man -- thank YOU.)))

BARCODE YOURSELF

Enter personal information to be encoded and find how much you are worth.
http://www.barcodeart.com/Yourself.html

BARCODE JANE FONDA

Semifinalist in the Smithsonian National Portrait Competition!
http://www.barcodeart.com/Jane_Fonda.html

DOWNLOADING PIXELS

Net art piece that captures the flow of downloading images on your co

They just can't keep this guy away from outer space

Please reply to this e-mail if you would like to speak with Space Adventures’ CEO, Eric Anderson.

SPACE ADVENTURES’ ORBITAL SPACEFLIGHT CLIENT CHARLES SIMONYI
OUTLINES MISSION ACTIVITIES AS HE READIES FOR LAUNCH TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

Simonyi Makes History as the First Repeat Private Space Explorer

In preparation for his March 26 launch, Charles Simonyi has outlined the mission objectives he hopes to achieve during his second visit to the International Space Station (

Publishing collapses, Kindle arrives, utter chaos ensues

http://www.slate.com/id/2214243

(...)

"The Kindle is not better than a printed book in all situations. You wouldn't want to read an art book, or a picture book to your children on one, or take one into the tub (please). But for the past few weeks, I've done most of my recreational reading on the Kindle—David Grann's adventure yarn The Lost City of Z, Marilynne Robinson's novel Home, Slate, The New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and the New York Times—and can honestly say I prefer

Programmable Environment theory by, uh-oh, the Herman Miller furniture company

http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/Category/0,,a10-c2130,00.html

*Design fiction.

*Heck of a bibliography, too.

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