Take an exclusive hard-hat tour and meet the city architect of the spectacular new Pompidou Centre in Metz by Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastine.
Originally found: wallpaper.com
reCaptcha Hacked on Time Inc. Poll
This morning Time.com published the final result for their annual TIME 100 Poll. Time reports that the new owner of the title ‘Worlds’s most influential person, is moot’. What TIME doesn’t say is that their poll was so totally manipulated that the results of the poll are not an indication of who is the most influential, but instead they stand as a monument to Time’s incompetence.
Read the original and in-depth article on MusicMachinery.com:
http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/
And naturally/ironically, if you have any comments, please enter them below and don’t forget to enter the reCaptcha. 🙂
The MTA’s Financial Posture
In April 2005, I sent an email to the NYC’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (or MTA) with a suggestion for helping them be more green.
You may or may not know that the MTA has 5,800 subway cars that run on 656 miles of track through 68 bridges, 14 tunnels and four boroughs, and carry 4.7 million people (1.7 percent of the US population) each weekday though 468 stations. You also may not know that the MTA, like most of NYC, runs off of electric power generated by oil-heated, steam-powered generators. So while the impression is that the MTA is green (because it’s not diesel-powered), it still consumes oodles of fossil fuel each day.
This is what prompted me to write them back in 2005, and to resend my letter on the four-year anniversary of it’s lack of a response. Read more
Benoit Godde
Take a look at the incredible illustration work by Benoit Godde, Parisian artist and designer:
http://www.porte-voix.com/
Stamen Design
I came across this site when Sean McDonald forwarded me a link to SF MOMA’s brilliant new site “SF MOMA ArtScope”. (Which, while, functionally, it takes a little while to figure out, the feature-packed design makes it an absolute pleasure to navigate and learn about the collection of modern art on the left coast).
Windows 7
Get a sneak preview of Windows 7 from their web site:
Over the past few years, you’ve asked us to make some changes to Windows. We listened closely. Now it’s time to share an early look at how we’ve used your feedback. Windows 7 is faster, more reliable, and makes it easier to do what you want. Both the everyday things and the killer “is that really possible?” things. Dig into this site to see what’s coming.
Sensory Integration
My mom forwarded me the below statistics and, while I’m unable to validate them or find any proof that they’re correct, I still find them fascinating. If anyone else knows something about this, please feel free to interject.
- The brain needs movement every 20 minutes or it starts to disengage.
- The child’s brain needs vestibular movement (spinning, twirling, rocking) in order to develop properly.
- Brains that developed after 1980 are often referred to as the “digital brain”. These brains have developed completely different from brains that developed prior to the electronic explosion.
- Brains developed prior to 1980 are able to problem solve and apply knowledge stronger than digital brains.
- Digital brains (after 1980) are able to multi-task stronger than brains developed prior to 1980.