They may be the alma mater, but oh man - what were they thinking spending $4 million dollars for this coach? so they could look like they sent the JV team out?

These are my links for August 26th through August 28th: Lawrence Durrell in the ambiguous white metropolis Peter Porter TLS - A long essay on a book and an author that I particulary like. Needlenose » Blog Archive » McCain’s Vice-President Announcement - A List Apart: Articles: Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer - "Common sense tells us that an architect begins with an abstraction—a blueprint—and creates from that abstraction a concrete structure existing in physical space. The cartographer, on the other hand, starts with concrete structures existing in physical space and creates from that an abstraction: a map." Web sites as maps instead of as architecture? I dunno. Probably need to reread he article. Thoughtful article, though.

These are my links for August 23rd through August 24th: Folding Paper (Great Moments in Science, ABC Science) - Question common wisdom. Arcade Ambience Project - Arcade game sounds from the '80s. Like being back at Pinball Pete's in 1986. DAYTUM - Graphing and charting whatever n you want to. Alas, still in private beta.

These are my links for August 21st from 05:15 to 09:34: Dissent Magazine - "Introducing his design for Atlantic Yards, Gehry spoke about trying to understand “the body language of Brooklyn.” But the only language Gehry has ever been interested in is the language of Frank Gehry. To say he is defiantly noncontextual is to imply that context enters into his thought at all. Gehry might have taken The Life and Death of Great American Cities as an anti-text. With its interior “public space,” its super-blocks, its potential for creating what Jacobs called “border vacuums” and the attendant crime that always accompanies such areas, in the way it cuts itself off from the neighborhoods around it and cuts them off from ...

I've avoided having an automated bookmark posting plugin here, but now that Delicious allows 1000 character comments, it makes a good micro-blogging tool. So some Delicious posts should appear here and I'm going to take them out of the sidebar.