August 2008
4 posts
Whoa, 2020 Is Only 12 Years Away
And look how cool Shanghai (maybe) will look by then! I’ve always been a sucker for maps of all kinds and, by extension, cool scale models like the one seen above. Neatorama pulls together some Flickr snapshots of this cooler than cool scale projection of what the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum believes China’s largest city will look like in 2020.
Any time I see one of these cool...
Some People Hate The Word "Moist." I Hate ...
… the word “mouthfeel.” It just gets under my skin. For the way it sounds. For the combination of two fairly intimate words in a way that just seems unnatural and creepy. But most important, for what it stands for.
I’ve often grouped people who harp on the texture of food into two camps: picky or pompous. There’s nothing worse than someone who refuses to eat...
'The Economics Of Free' Win Again
It’s been difficult to get a straight analysis of Radiohead’s groundbreaking, pay-what-you-want-online record release strategy for its latest effort, In Rainbows. Lots of winking and nodding and declining to comment.
But Wired gives a nice breakdown of a new British study of how torrent downloads affected the sanctioned downloads at the band’s official site. The verdict?...
Today's Favorite Word ...
THE PASSAGE
“Four years is a long time in Beijing, a city frantically reinventing and rebuilding itself. The poplars have filled out into a wall of green that seems no more or less dishonest than the strips of woods I grew up with in America, concealing subdivisions and the interstate from one another.
The air has gotten cleaner, too — not clean, not even close to what most Americans...