by natecooper | Sep 11, 2008 | aesthetics, art, cool, culture, digital media, internet, media, technology, television
Just saw one of the best TED talk videos I’ve ever seen: Peter Hirshberg on TV and the web | Video on TED.com. Basically tells a familiar story of the convergence of web and media that was covered in so many classes I TAed at UCSC and gives a glimpse of what...
by natecooper | Sep 11, 2008 | culture, humor, media
Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jacksonville Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life ha ha ha ha
by natecooper | Sep 10, 2008 | cool, digital media, humor, internet
Step aside Fail Dogs. Domo nom nom is a blog where updates are in the form of edibles for a bizarre monster. This may be not worth explaining other than to say check it out but it definitely turns the concept of a blog on its...
by natecooper | Sep 9, 2008 | cities, cool, culture, food, photography, san francisco
Was browsing through my archives since the website update and ended up on a random tumblr. Something about seeing a picture of a picnic in Delores Park (San Francisco) at the bottom of a tumblog really just smacks of home to...
by natecooper | Sep 9, 2008 | cities, culture, politics
Found this story on Digg US Is “More Communist than China”: Jim Rogers – Financials Europe News Story – CNBC.com. Very poignant discussion if brief on the Mortgage crisis. “This is madness, this is insanity, they have more than doubled...
by natecooper | Sep 7, 2008 | aesthetics, art, digital media, internet, nate, technology
I finally got around to fixing up natecooper.net. It didn’t take that long because I basically just tweaked a standard wordpress template. I thought I might want to build my own from scratch but this seemed like a better way to get a decent looking site up in a...
by natecooper | Aug 25, 2008 | cool, culture, politics
I found this article Libertarian socialism Wikipedia [link] fairly engaging from the perspective of self-identification. I especially enjoyed this line in particular: ‘This is sometimes characterized as a desire to maximize “free creativity” in a...
by natecooper | Aug 22, 2008 | architecture, cities, cool, culture, technology
Heard a podcast discussing the ideas of Christopher Alexander [link] and started digging around for a wikipedia entry. It’s surprising how little there is on this considering his ideas led directly to the development of wikipedia. The most descriptive article...
by natecooper | Aug 21, 2008 | aesthetics, architecture, art, cities, culture, los angeles, new york, technology
natecooper.net is making it appear as if all I’ve been reading is cracked.com and BLDGBLOG. Could be worse I guess. BLDGBLOG’s discussion of “extreme signage” [link] does pique my interest. I don’t know if I fully agree with the...
by natecooper | Aug 21, 2008 | culture, humor
Another amusing article From Cracked.com. Gotta love any top # list where each topic is sub-headed with: “So Where Does the Poop/Pee Come in?”
by natecooper | Aug 19, 2008 | Brooklyn, cities, culture, food, nate, new york
Coffee is a singular experience in New York. Though I have yet to experience the perfect cup of Joe here at the very least it is plentiful and there is a fair amount of independent shops — far fewer per-capita than should be but fair none-the-less. There is,...
by natecooper | Aug 16, 2008 | aesthetics, cities, cool, culture
Eric mentioned to me the unique design ofthis parking garage in Melbourne it’s sort of hard explaining verbally but very interesting to look at. Basically directions/signs for how to enter, exit and move around this parking garage are painted in such a way so...