The Almanac

via fixasampa.files.wordpress.com

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:10:13 -0800

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2010 North American Handmade Bicycle Show

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:04:36 -0800

2010 North American Handmade Bicycle Show

Why Eating Meat-Shaped Vegetarian Food Is Like Having Sex with a Blow-up Doll | A Primer on Analogues

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:45:58 -0800

Why Eating Meat-Shaped Vegetarian Food Is Like Having Sex with a Blow-up Doll | A Primer on Analogues:

“Most vegetarians liked the taste and texture of meat. It’s just that liking the taste of something cannot justify killing an animal. People don’t kill their dogs or cats, even though they would also taste good, and ethical vegetarians have simply gone an obvious step further and decided it’s not okay to kill other animals because they taste good.”

Tofu Burger with Chard? Hell yes.

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:33:00 -0800

Tofu Burger with Chard? Hell yes.:

Photo

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:36:07 -0800

Bike wheels as a storefront display

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:34:30 -0800

Bike wheels as a storefront display

Windows Phone 7 Series Demo

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:54:00 -0800

Windows Phone 7 Series Demo:

If you’re an IX or UI designer, definitely check this out. And yes, it’s even worth installing the Silverlight update to do so. What MSFT is doing with their Zune interface (which is now extending into the mobile space) completely schools Apple. There are some really great details in this otherwise simple design.

Fuggit.

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:23:07 -0800

Fuggit.

Chris Hedges on the Zero Point of Systemic Collapse

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:42:39 -0800

Chris Hedges on the Zero Point of Systemic Collapse:

“The cultural belief that we can make things happen by thinking, by visualizing, by wanting them, by tapping into our inner strength or by understanding that we are truly exceptional is magical thinking. We can always make more money, meet new quotas, consume more products and advance our career if we have enough faith.”

This article is pretty much the antithesis of my previous post, and way more real.

What record digging in South Africa looks like. Via [TMN]

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:20:00 -0800

What record digging in South Africa looks like. Via [TMN]

via www.preserve.co.nz

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:09:32 -0800

via www.preserve.co.nz

Is There an Ecological Unconscious?

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:17:25 -0800

Is There an Ecological Unconscious?:

“When you narrow down your epistemology and act on the premise ‘what interests me is me or my organization or my species,’ you chop off consideration of other loops of the loop structure,” Bateson wrote. “You decide that you want to get rid of the byproducts of human life and that Lake Erie will be a good place to put them. You forget that the ecomental system called Lake Erie is a part of your wider ecomental system — and that if Lake Erie is driven insane, its insanity is incorporated in the larger system of your thought and experience.” Our inability to see this truth, Bateson maintained, was becoming monstrously apparent. Human consciousness evolved to privilege “purposiveness” — to get us what we want, whether what we want is a steak dinner or sex. Expand that tendency on a mass scale, and it is inevitable that you’re going to see some disturbing effects: red tides, vanishing forests, smog, global warming. “There is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecology of weeds,” Bateson wrote, “and it is characteristic of the system that basic error propagates itself.”

“It’s called Digital Analogue and was directed by Lu Sisi,...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:06:35 -0800

“It’s called Digital Analogue and was directed by Lu Sisi, a Glasgow School of Art student who made this beautiful stop-motion video out of over 6,000 photo stills. Not only that, but all of the sounds you hear in the video are taken from cameras, edited together to create a soundtrack of sorts.” Via KN | Kitsune Noir

Photo

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:00:45 -0800

AlterNet's Archive of Zinn Articles

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:51:41 -0800

AlterNet's Archive of Zinn Articles

Howard Zinn 1922-2010

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:49:05 -0800

Howard Zinn 1922-2010:

From DL, via the work inbox, “a great example of breaking...

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:35:29 -0800

From DL, via the work inbox, “a great example of breaking down a design problem, prototyping the idea & executing on design.” The final video brings it all together. I love this.

A few kids take a bike trip in the summer of 1979

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:49:00 -0800

A few kids take a bike trip in the summer of 1979:

iaminlikewithmybike / fcg: Arlenis Sosa x Harper’s Bazaar

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:41:46 -0800

iaminlikewithmybike / fcg: Arlenis Sosa x Harper’s Bazaar

The Cove

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:20:38 -0800

The Cove:

Whoa, I must see this.