August 2007
22 posts
Eurozine - No coffee - Jakob Norberg →
Why do we like coffee shops? “What is it about coffee â and coffeehouses â that makes it so agreeable to the bourgeoisie? asks Jakob Norberg in a brief social history of the dark, rich brew. For Jürgen Habermas, the coffeehouse is a place where bourg
How to do Deconstruction →
Easy overview of deconstruction, I am asuming in a Derridean sense. Example:
don’t say:
The Joker is cooler than Batman (reverses notion of the hero).
say:
Batman is a special kind of villain called a vigilante
Picking Locks - The Beginners Guide To Lock... →
Shipping Container House Design Portfolio of Addis... →
Contained in Zurich →
“Switzerland’s Freitag brothers, Markus and Daniel, have created an amazing mini skyscraper office in Zurich from recycled shipping containers.”
Shipping Container building - Freitag Shop,...
NationMaster - World Statistics, Country... →
“NationMaster, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on al
Shipping-Container-Architecture Information... →
A list of shipping container houses and their architects
14.1 - Kolyma - Off to the Unknown - Stalin's... →
’ Ayyub Baghirov’s book, “Bitter Days of Kolyma”, was first published in 1999 in Russian as “Gorkiye Dni Na Kolime”. To our knowledge, it was the first personal narrative by an Azerbaijani author about his years spent in exile in the notorious prison syst
Imagine Earth without people - life - 12 October... →
What would happen if every person on earth was suddenly removed, how quickly nature would recover
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches →