Today’s Links

Vision Stockholm 2030 – en plattform för dialog om Stockholms utveckling. “[Stadsbyggnadskontoret har] beskrivit hur Stockholm kan växa, vilka infrastrukturinvesteringar som krävs och hur vi ska åstadkomma en socialt, ekonomiskt och ekologiskt hållbar stadsbebyggelse.”
Jason Yip: I prefer default over standard. “Instead of standards [for coding, requirements writing, etc.], I’d like to explicitly call them for what they are: default starting points. Defaults are there to assist, not to prescribe.” (Via Brian Marick.)
Waggish: John Barth on Calvino and Borges. (Via rodcorp.)
John Barth: ‘The Parallels!’ Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges. Wonderful. (Via rodcorp.)
heyblog: Structure & Situated Software. “There are some good reasons that urban planners, just like software designers, are unable to see past issues of scalability, and fall back on tree structures for everything.” (Via Dan Hill.)
Scientific American: Draining the Language out of Color. “It is unlikely that the world’s languages are so different from one another that their speakers think in ways that are incommensurable.” (Via 2Blowhards.)
Paul Ford: Interview Extension. “Asked for a few words [about my website], I went on, and on.” (Via Erik Stattin.)
John Massengale on Zaha Hadid’s Pritzker prize. “Since [the 1970s], popular culture has moved away from Modernism as the expression of the times, towards the idea that Modernist art and architecture are just styles.”