It's unrecognizable I didn't think I'd keep reflecting on this day, but somehow I can't. It's been with me for most of my lifetime that I can remember, and perhaps more importantl...
Today's AI is unreasonable. There's an extraordinary amount of hype around "AI" right now, perhaps even greater than in past cycles, where we've seen an AI bubble about once per...
The Death Cult Stages a Coup A while back, when I wrote out in plain words that we have a politically dominant death cult ruling America right now, I worried about the risks of saying my...
Fourteen is Remembering Last week I went and visited the memorial reflecting pools for the first time. I had been to the top of the new One World Trade Center, but had deliberately av...
Thirteen is Understanding They say the best way to see if you really understand something is to try to explain it to another person. I’ll never really understand what happened to my b...
The Sign of the Times Pentagram, the designers of the website, signage, marketing materials, and stationery for the new New York Times building , have a fascinating blog post...
Bay Movies, Bernoulli, Slang at the Pole and KartMatch Sometimes I miss when I used to just share random links with folks. So here’s what’s caught my eye lately. Greencine’s list of movies filmed in the Bay Area...
The Best Subway Stops in the World This fantastic series of photos of subway stations really makes me appreciate mass transit in a way that I haven’t in ages. Look at Stockholm! Any space wh...
G-Cans Project These amazing photos of a japanese storm drain system make it look like the architect behind the system used to work on designing Quake levels....
Emptying My Head A few random thoughts that have occurred to me of late: Whenever I wonder about random things like "Why are commercial toilets shaped differently than...
shutdowns Oh, and I try to avoid current events because the news makes me cry, but if Enron and Global Crossings and, probably, Arthur Andersen can get (effectively or e...
Jones Diner Jason ‘s mention of a meal at the Jones Diner brought to mind the recent story that we ran about the threats to its existence that are posed by the inevit...
One of the things I One of the things I thought about a lot when Microsoft’s sites were down the other day was the reason that the flawed, single point of failure architecture was...
At long last, the mystery At long last, the mystery is solved ! The incredibly complicated layout of street numbers and addresses in Queens apparently does follow a pattern. This a...
Interesting article on how there Interesting article on how there aren’t yet any educational standards for becoming an Information Architect ....
The City Review has a The City Review has a nice architectural rundown of Manhattan, I’m surprised how much of the Review I agree with....
Cool thing: Aestheticom, located in Cool thing: Aestheticom , located in the Empire State Building, has as their logo this image , while the logo for the Building itself looks like this ....
comparison of physical and logical architecture Interesting parallels between my area of expertise and the area in which most of my clients work, or Information Architecture vs. Spatial Architecture . I was...
apartment hunting update Another day of apartment hunting, followed by some walking & shopping time in the city around 57th Street . I had forgotten what a hellish tourist trap...
