Delicious Bookmarks
"Having a child is now the single best predictor of bankruptcy, and this holds true even for families with two incomes."
Retired, on vacation, between jobs, sick day, not required at the office. Says one: "Face time isn't such a thing anymore. What people care about now is whether you get the work done."
With recommendations on how we can sell and buy bottled water sustainably.
"Those who seek out and use Asian sex toys may be more open to culturally diverse experiences than other types of consumers. Perhaps the popularity of ancient Asian materials reflects the sexual immaturity of American collective culture, searching for a deeper understanding of our own sexuality."
He outlines the recommendations in the book and relates them to Web 2.0 and how we might use the latter to save the world.
Features a track-by-track discussion of their album, Lateralus. (This is the oldest browser bookmark I have, the link sent to me about 6 years ago by a Tool fan friend. I finally read it!)
I read this a while back, and the time is right for a refresher: I'm looking forward to Spring Cleaning in my (tiny) apartment. So much stuff has been there for years.
"Although the sound of the SkyTrain itself [...] can only be heard in the immediate surroundings of the stations, the accompanying changes in the landscape and the soundscape, now filled with transportation noises including cars, buses, heavy trucks, a train and two SkyTrain lines, are for all participants signs of a deterioration of this neighbourhood."
Jaiku founder Jyri Engeström's presentation on the next generation of mobile devices, with the assumption that others' presence and other people's plans matter just as much as yours. My peripheral vision (social and otherwise) could use improving.
Slides and text from his presentation at Web Directions North 2008. This one will be rattling around in my brain for the next two weeks.
To get included, tag your 7-60 second video with either 'passingby-looking-left' or' 'passingby-looking-right'. Why yes, I believe I *will* add mundane video of SkyTrain this way!
The very last thing I would do is name the downloadable file "slides.pdf", however.
"In short, the researchers concluded, many self-styled impostors are phony phonies: they adopt self-deprecation as a social strategy, consciously or not, and are secretly more confident than they let on."
Long essay on polyamory as viewed in the media and in society, as well as on the different between it and BDSM or swinging.
Globe & Mail mini-documentary of a couple living in a Downtown Eastside hotel, struggling to make it back home to Winnipeg to make a clean start.
Some great stuff about storytelling and writing near the end.
Bowden is part of the story: he claims frienship with William Marimow and John Carroll, towards whom Simon holds grudges against. On fiction: "Art frees you from the infuriating unfinishedness of the real world."
Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs and Robert Wilson collaborated on the play. I was dragged along to watch it, not knowing what to expect, upon reflection, I admit to being the better for it. A very high intensity, avant-garde play.
Great responses in the comment section, from young and old, to a study by the University College London into critical thinking amongst youth on the web.
"The biggest problem, of course, had nothing to do with the newsrooms. It was the collapse of an unsustainable business model."