Today’s Links
- Mapper’s delight: the London Underground diagrams. ”’If you’re going underground, why do you need bother about geography? It’s not so important. Connections are the thing.’ Harry Beck, designer of the classic Tube map” (via someone).
- The Morning News – A Love Affair With Maps. (Via someone, I forgot.)
- Online articles from Italian architecture magazine Domus. Requires free registration.
- ‘The Tyranny of Structurelessness’ by Jo Freeman. “Why organisations need some structure to ensure they are democratic” (via Clay Shirky).
- City Journal Spring 2000 | After Modernism by Roger Scruton. Via 2 Blowhards.
- Interview of Miroslav Kulchitsky with Nicolas Bourriaud. On “Relational Aesthetics” etc. Can’t remember why I was interested in this, or from whom I got it.
- social beasts: We are not our maps. “[Maps] are abstractions of our worlds, they show and demonstrate processes so that we may better understand things in their complexity. Quite often, someone else is creating this map.” (Via Anne Galloway?)
- The History of Maps. “This article describes how map making has played an important role in the development of mathematics.” (Via Matt Webb.)
- Teaching Japanese Aesthetics. Whys and Hows for Non-Specialists. (Via someone I forgot.)
- Linux for Suits: The New Vernacular. Stewart Brand’s buildings that learn, vernacular vs. “magazine” architecture, Richard Gabriel’s “habitability,” and Unix.
- Freshly Squeezed Software – PulpFiction – Advanced News Reader/Aggregator for Mac OS X. “PulpFiction is a next-generation, easy-to-use, powerful RSS/Atom feed reader.” (Via Mattias Ahlström.)
- SubEthaEdit: Introducing version 2.0. New version; realtime collaborative editing of documents. (Via macpro.se.)
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