Monthly Archives: November 2004

Mc 900 Ft. Jesus: While the City Sleeps

I was just thinkin’ MC Frontalot reminded me a little of MC 900 Ft. Jesus. Oddly enough, Scenestars has “While the City Sleeps” and “The Killer Inside Me” online right now.

Why people say where they are during mobile-phone calls


Computing for Emergent Architecture


open source project to generate urban forms


Walking in the City: Spatial Practices in Art, from the Mid-1960s to the Present

art exhibition about walking in the city

Walking in Place

blog about walking, urbanism, etc.

The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest


Digital note-passing gains respect among adults


MC Frontalot: indier than thou

Check out this great nerdcore rapper. I really like the song “Crime Spree”
MC Frontalot mp3s.

Me at work today

(from My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable)

DIY book publishing


Gladwell on “office urbanism”


Desktop manufacturing

We’ve been hearing about this one for a while, but it looks like it’s getting close. Bruce Sterling’s got the dirt. What’s the economy gonna look like when we start pirating objects?

Guerilla marketing: tales from the front line archives


Cool kicks

Saw these at Josh Rubin’s a while back.
And via Adam, these very nice limited edition Pumas that I will probably never own.

Adam on Design Engaged

Adam thinks the future of the ‘net may be in web services after all (I’m not sure I agree):

I also find it verrrrry interesting, and not at all coincidental, that at least two of the above-named applications (Konfabulator and Quicksilver) [Flickr is the other above named application] and possibly all three point towards an emergent […]

Leave your masterpiece un-finished

The Suburbs are Killing Us is hosting their name-sake, the My Favorite song “the Suburbs are Killing US.” Find the November 4th entry.

the suburbs are killing us
asleep when we should be dancing
leave your masterpiece unfinished
asleep when we should be dancing

UpdateChris took those mp3s down, there’s an mp3 and some videos at Lost Detective though.

RIP Jhonn Balance

From the Coil web site:

We are greatly saddened to have to you that at about 5.30 pm Saturday Nov 13th, Jhonn Balance, was killed in an accident at home.
Under the influence of alcohol he fell from the first floor landing, hitting his head on the floor some 15ft below.
Key23 has an open thread for posting […]

Make sure to use a big enough truck


Technical difficulties

If you’ve been visiting this site recently you may have run into numerous irregularities. I’ve been trying to install a WordPress plugin to import my del.icio.us bookmarks, with limited success. I’ve had to upgrade to the alpha version WordPress 1.3, and to a different version of Kubrick which I haven’t customized yet.
If you […]