by natecooper | Sep 30, 2008 | aesthetics, art, cool, culture, digital media, internet, politics, technology
Near Future Laboratory has a great article about the problem of trying to integrate everyday things into a computing paradigm. “There’s a weird conceit in here, that the activities and practices of normal human beings will involve data processing and...
by natecooper | Sep 30, 2008 | aesthetics, cool, culture, food, politics
Here’s an idea. Brand tap water in order to compete with the market-saturated and unnecessarily wasteful brand waters. All for a good cause as well. we want tap (via Inhabitat)
by natecooper | Sep 26, 2008 | architecture, cities, culture, san francisco
Seeing these pics just makes me long for San Francisco a little. (via Inhabitat)
by natecooper | Sep 23, 2008 | culture, digital media, internet, technology
About a year ago (wow! I’ve been blogging pretty consistently for over a year now with nary a hiccup!) I posted about the overabundance and annoyance of Facebook invites due to their inclusion of an apps interface. A year (and a Facebook redesign) later the...
by natecooper | Sep 22, 2008 | culture, politics
Found this interesting article of the top ten richest people of all time on wikipedia. Lest you think this impossible to actually qualify this they have a pretty straight-forward system: “The ranking process is done by the percentage of the total GDP of the...
by natecooper | Sep 21, 2008 | aesthetics, cities, cool, culture, media, politics
Yes yes yes yes!! This article by yahoo news (I know! wow.) enumerates a number of issues I’ve been meaning to gather into a thoughtful, drawn-out post. Basically the public subsidy of cars is destroying any possibility for modern American cities to develop more...