An Alternative to War
Statement by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter: An Alternative to War ATLANTA, Jan. 31 (AScribe Newswire)—Despite marshalling powerful armed forces in the Persian Gulf region and a virtual declaration of war in the State of the Union message, our government has not made a case for a preemptive military strike against Iraq, either at home ...
Gong Xi Fa Cai
Happy Chinese new year! Here’s to the year of the ram. Note: if you heard reports that the year of the ram is bad luck on the mainstream American news, don’t believe it. It’s not true.
HTML’s Time is Over. Let’s Move On.
Ultimately, I don’t see a long term future for HTML as an application development solution. It is a misapplied tool that was never meant to be used for anything other than distributed publishing.” “The reality is that we are trying to do too much with a language that was never meant for such heavy-duty applications. ...
SF 02
A new project called etc. – bits of remembrances from trips, people, places, and other such extraneous stuff. This first set includes paper bits from a San Francisco trip from 2002.
Invention isn’t magic: it’s mess and mistakes
Celebrated inventor Dean Kamen (best known recently for his creation of the Segway Human Transporter, a personal transportation gyroscopic scooter) says there’s no magic in invention, just mess: “It’s not some fundamental magic. The invention process is incredibly messy. It’s incredibly frustrating. You go around, bump into the wall, try another place, bump into another ...
In the end, it’s all about relationships
Don Tapscott, business consultant and author of “Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs,” says that it’s a mistake to discount the power of the Internet based on the bursting of the tech bubble: “There is a real danger that people will decide to throw out the Internet baby with the dot-com bath water. ...
Planet X
Find the multiple paths through our alter-ego world.
Wikipedia
I just came across the wikipedia and I’m completely hooked. Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate open content encyclopedia. We started on 15 January 2001 and are already working on 98972 articles in the English version. Visit the help page and experiment in the sandbox to learn how you can ...
red room, blue world
A view of my desk from sometime in the late 90’s when I was in grad school. You can see a model of a piece that I was working on – the blue light environment housed in the silver tv casing – one of the moments when I realized how digital the real world can ...
The Rashid Brothers
I discovered today that the work of two “designers” whose work I greatly admire are actually brothers. Industrial designer, Karim Rashid, and Hani Rashid of Asymptote architecture. “Karim Rashid answers… what are you afraid of regarding the future? I have no fear, I love evolution, I’m looking forward to the day when we’re 50% synthetic ...
New e-cards
Added the e-cards section with an initial selection of images. Go have a look and send a card while you’re there. If you’re a designer or artist and want to contribute some of your own images, email me.
Self in winter
dayglo
New site sections
Site update: I’ve been busy developing new site features and redoing the organisation and architecture of several sections. “artcodes collective” will be launched shortly. Stay tuned for calls for submissions to the first two curated projects – digital detritus and on location. Soon you’ll be able to send artcodes e-cards to friends. I’ll be inviting ...
Good Things
Dolce & Gabbana’s light blue perfume, never mined (art book from the netherlands) and Hillman Curtis’ latest book, MTIV.
One way
At this time in 1972, I was ten hours away from being born.