Starting last night, blog.founddrama.net is now served over SSL. Huge thanks to the Let’s Encrypt project for making this possible, and to my hosting provider, DreamHost for making it easy. How easy? Log into the web panel and click a button. OPTIONAL: Add a redirect rule to .htaccess to force ye olde http requests over […]
“It might seem paradoxical that in a world where media and technology are bringing people together in more ways than ever before, the most innovative cities are looking at ways to facilitate in-person interactions. People still crave that physical proximity and the energy and transfer of ideas that happen in these environments; a nod to the enduring potency of local, human-scaled interactions. There’s a balance to be found between high-tech and lo-fi, analog and digital.”
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Katherine Oliver, “Think Global Act Local: It’s More Relevant Than Ever”
I think about what’s happening in my own town (e.g., the efforts to build a “more walkable downtown”), and this resonates in a big way with me. I think about how I work best at the office, and again: a big resonance.
nevver:
A list
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brucesterling:
UFO typologies, 1967
This New Yorker piece by Nathan Heller (“Bay Watched”) came across my radar within the past couple of days. This is the sort of thing that would normally show up here as part of a “linkdump” but I had just a little bit more to say about it than that, so… It took me a […]
If you’ve been following along, I’ve become a huge fan of Prismatic, and have written about it twice: once after 24 hours, and once after six weeks. Now it’s been about six months of daily use, and I would like to reflect on it again. So: some thoughts, critiques, and praises; in no particular order…
About six weeks ago, I started using Prismatic and entered it into my daily 1 routine. It’s like your own personal “best of the web” that gets smarter about your interests as you go along. I’m still feeling as positive about it now as I was after the first 24 hours. Ever since that post, […]
My gift to Amazon: 1 Your review software ought to ask reviewers if they still mean what they said after (say…) 6 months or a year. Think about it: how many reviews are getting posted more/less immediately after the item was received? (“I love it!!!”) Now how many of those folks are equally satisfied after […]
The way I put it yesterday: today I bought a 1987 paperback reprint of Frank Herbert’s “Dune” because I liked the way it smelled Dune, which I’m almost ashamed to admit I’ve never read. I saw it on the shelf at The Crow for $2.95. If I’m to believe the cover price, this paperback (printed […]