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Reyner Banham (1922-88) was one of the most influential writers on architecture, design, and popular culture from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s.
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a prolific architectural critic and writer best known for his 1960 theoretical treatise “Theory and Design in the First Machine Age”, and his 1971 book “Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies”
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Reyner Banham most famous book: Theory and Design in the First Machine Age – (still in print with The MIT Press after forty years), was central to the overhaul of Modernism, and it gave Futurism and Expressionism credibility amid the dynamism and change o
June 26, 2008
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Tags: design, history, machine, production, theory
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The Lifeboat Foundation was formed with the ethical premise that decreasing the likelihood of human extinction is the activity with the most positive utility on the planet today
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THE SECOND COMING — A MANIFESTO by David Gelernter – Everything is up for grabs. Everything will change. There is a magnificent sweep of intellectual landscape right in front of us.
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a nice citation and hommage to the sleeve and the ambiance
June 07, 2008
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Tags: article, computing, diffusion, digital, future, hommage, humanity, internet, lifestream, manifesto, music, organization, preservation, representation, research, scenario, science, technology, theory
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beautiful tiny database engine; so tiny it fits in a url bar…
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Blog in french, written by Brice d’Antras – Design Consultant and Contractor.
May 12, 2008
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Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, api, database, db, design, hack, text, theory
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from the comment: The full admin app also scales blog post text by calculating “em” sizes based on the slider value.
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Beyond the “uniqueness” of individual works, he tried to discover their common structural properties after noticing that characters in great fiction evolved in a system of relationships otherwise common to the wider generality of novels.
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An unlikely row has erupted in France over suggestions that the semicolon’s days are numbered
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UNIX pipes (treated semantically as writing to temporary files) are quite similar to monads. Furthermore, at the level of UNIX programming, all i/o can be regarded monadic.
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That’s what you can find here: a wonderful repository of documents related to computer and culture at large
April 10, 2008
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Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, algorithms, animation, archive, art, ascii, book, books, character, code, culture, data, design, encoding, france, gallery, images, inerface, javascript, language, literature, mathematics, newyork, philosophy, pipe, punctuation, research, resource, shell, size, store, structure, text, theory, thumbnails, typography, uk, unicode, unix, utf8, writing, zoom
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The makers of Auto-shop and Auto-illustrator – they made also the FinderMail a marveling application using apple’s finder as an inbox. Their software challenges traditional conception of softwares.
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Karrie Jacobs “From Eternity To Here” – Amandine commented on a R-Echos article, spotting and quoting this text
March 12, 2008
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Tags: 3d, art, ballet, body, bottle, branding, business, cellar, company, customisation, dance, design, email, excel, experimental, fiction, findability, game, generative, graphic, identify, identity, im, installation, instant, interface, messaging, module, object, organise, planets, python, restaurant, rfid, science-fiction, software, stock, technology, theory, to_read, tracking, txt, video, visualisation, web, wine
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an insight – back in the days (2005!) – on how to insert metainformation in delicious’ bookmarks
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a daily selection of website from the french newspaper Libération; via Tex Server who has been linked from them
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it’s good to see there are bigger company exploring new path of doing things – the exact same way ElectroNest decided to explore new way of managing relationship, workflow and business…
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a guide and some explanations on how to setup a FaceBook application
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an application which lets you change your boot image on apple computer
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»Internet art, net art, and networked art in relation.« A collection of conversations and interviews (with: Isabelle Arvers, Marc Garrett, Benjamin Weil, Charlie Gere, Christiane Paul, Cory Arcangel, Jemima Rellie, Sara Tucker , Jon Ippolito and Dirk De
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a semantic approach to “related tags” in delicious bookmark. Applying language algorythms to RSS feed parsing.
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Indexhibit is a web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound. Daniel Eatock is behind this nice project aimed at easily realising online collections
February 24, 2008
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Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, application, business, collection, datamining, delicious, design, development, facebook, feed, filesystem, hack, links, management, marketing, meta, metadata, netart, opensource, organisation, osx, practice, process, reference, research, RSS, semantic, software, tagging, theory, tool, to_read, webdesign, website, zeitgeist
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not your typical “What font should I use” typography but rather your “knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash” typography. Call me a little bit purist but this bothers me.
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Simon Geilfus website; lots of processinf coding – nice typographic (animated?) work
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a nice research: collecting methods, resources, and theories concerning the curation of (New) Media, Internet-based, and Video Art.
February 19, 2008
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Tags: art, blog, coder, curation, database, graphicdesign, legibility, microtypography, processing, research, resource, theory, typography
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