Orwell the blogger
The diaries of George Orwell are now being published in blog format by The Orwell Prize. The diaries begin in August 1938 and cover the period up until October 1942. They're being timed to appear...
history
Introducing Historiographica
So I've started another website, a kind of ongoing accident, with the idea echoing so intensely during Webstock as I culled together my 8x5 presentation, it just seemed to burst out of my brain and...
By maetl,
18th February 2008
In: webstock
history
information
design
architecture
visualization
literature
mistakes
learning
books
communication
science
projects
New Zealand Design Review
In a 1950 editorial the "New Zealand Design Review" identified the "horrible forces ranged against good design" as Indifference, Cheapness First, Unnecessary Novelty, Mass Production, De Luxe...
Blue Sky Mining
It may not matter whether Australian uranium is exported from three mines or thirty... This proposal, according to Labour leader Kim Beazley should define Australia's uranium policy. But maybe...
Crying Sculpture
Via bTang, I just stumbled across this crying sculpture (.pdf) which explores the theme of communication through tears. Crying is often considered solitary and individual, but here a significance...
By maetl,
22nd July 2006
In: art
aesthetics
history
New Zealand in Ten Movies or Less
I'm not usually one to jump onboard the blog meme wagon, but after seeing the recent proliferation of America in Ten Movies or Less, I started wondering which ten films would best sum up the New...
Youth Gangs and Assumptions About Culture
Opinions have been flowing in local media, regarding the intersect between exploding urban situations in France and some of the serious problems in South Auckland at the moment. One thing I'm noticing...
Nuclear Weapons are Morally Indefensible
INTERJECTION: "Mr Lange Sir, if I may address you as 'mate', perhaps. You talk about the quality of rationality. Now I've heard many reasons advanced for keeping American sailors out of ports...
Links
➔ recursive numeric sequences in africa
➔ Pascal's Triangle - Mathematics and the Liberal Arts
➔ The Influence of Vedic Philosophy on Nilola Tesla
➔ Nathan: Projects: A History of Communications 35,000 BC - 1998 AD
➔ How Websites Learn | Acts of Volition
➔ How Object-Oriented Programming Started
➔ The comprehensive source for photographs of US nuclear weapons systems
➔ X-RATED - Adult movie posters of the 60s and 70s
➔ Life With Alacrity: Tracing the Evolution of Social Software
➔ Slashdot | Rob Pike Responds
➔ Decadence and Depravity as a Theme in 19th and 20th Century Western Culture
➔ Gene Expression: Implications of philosophy: what would Nietzsche do?
➔ The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
➔ science, technology and the ww2 regime
➔ What Really Happened to the Titanic
