Links

2blowhards.com: Guest Posting—Salingaros on Tschumi. On Bernard Tschumi’s New Acropolis Museum.
Robert Saunders: An Evolutionary Architecture. A summary of John Frazer’s book (via Håkan Kjellerstrand).
Unconventional Inspirations For Creating Software Interface Metaphors. “[N]ew inspirations are sought from Dnyaneshwari [...], one of the best Indian saint literatures [which] uses numerous metaphors for depicting complex and abstract philosophical information” (via Håkan Kjellerstrand).
Nik Boyd: Using Natural Language in Software Development. “This paper describes techniques for transforming natural language into rhetoric suitable for conceptual modeling” (via Håkan Kjellerstrand).
Nik Boyd: Software Metaphors. “Software is an unique form of literature. Software is useful, usable fiction” (via Håkan Kjellerstrand).
Paradigmskifte: Hur påverkas arkitekturen av övergången mellan industrisamhället och nätverkssamhället? (PDF; via Håkan Kjellerstrand.)
The Next Move in Programming: A Conversation with Sun’s Victoria Livschitz. “What do you see as the big problems in writing software?”
Chapter 11 from Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene. “[T]he best short introduction to, and the text that kicked off, the new science of memetics” (via Håkan Kjellerstrand).