politics Archives - Page 4 of 11

Vote the Machine

by natecooper | Nov 4, 2008 | culture, new york, politics

This brief post from hrrrthrrr sort of sums up my reaction to my first vote (or first three) on the east coast. Here’s how voting in Santa Cruz works (at least for my tenure there). You get a little sheet with a tear off on it and a felt tipped marker. You go to...

Kung-Fu Election

by natecooper | Oct 3, 2008 | cool, culture, humor, internet, media, politics

Ever felt like the election should be decided by a round of Mortal Kombat? Apparently someone did. FINISH HIM!

A Recipe for web 2.0 success (failure?)

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...

Tap Branding

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)

Wealthiest People of All Time

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...

Cities rethink wisdom of 50s-era parking standards

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...