February 2011
Green Building →
At the heart of the landscape urbanist agenda is the notion that the most important part of city planning is not the arrangement of buildings, but the natural landscape upon which those buildings stand. Proponents envision weaving nature and city together into a new hybrid that functions like a living ecosystem. And instead of pushing people closer together in service of achieving density, as...
January 2011
“Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.”
– Voltaire (via tmblg)
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“I don’t like the Olive Garden. They treat me like family.”
– Sheldon Cooper (via listenupnerds)
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Watchmikegetout:
ayoungpioneer:
Click the squares.
this is one of the coolest things i have seen in a while. i have been mesmerized for the past several minutes
Owlsome.
findout: aja:
Your Rocky Spine - The Great Lake...
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Watchpeterwknox:
Marc Maron guests on Conan. And it’s amazing.
I like the part about the bookshelf.
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the ragbag: today in german words with complex... →
ragbag:
according to jimmy wales, gemütlichkeit means »
… “coziness”; however, rather than merely describing a place that is compact, well-heated and nicely furnished (a cozy room, a cozy flat), Gemütlichkeit connotes the notion of belonging, social acceptance, cheerfulness, the absence of anything…
See also: hygge.
The World Is Too Much With Us
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.—Great God!...
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WatchMA Men 2. The Skankening.
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Watchericmortensen:
The Simplicity and Elegance of Arc.
Can minimalist controller design make even two knobs into a digital instrument? We’ll soon see. The arc, the new controller from monome designer Brian Crabtree, contains just two high-resolution encoders (known to us in everyday usage as “knobs”).
Read Peter Kirn’s interview with the creator @ CDM.
Holy. This.
Tech support just came by to record my (admittedly...
Key word: former.
get a hot load of this word
ragbag:
aread (verb)
to divine the meaning of obscure words, interpret a dream, (or) solve a riddle or enigma.
these are my three favourite activities! if only aread also described working out on a nordicflex, i wouldn’t need to use another verb again ever.
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source: the oh ee dee
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