Tag Archives: Technology

How Gaudi

NPR had a story on this morning about a tower designed by Antonio Gaudi for the lower east side, but never constructed. It is strange (well, duh!), but far more interesting than what seem to be the front-runners among proposed structures for the WTC site. (I hate saying this, but is that really the leading […]
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I-and-i spelling

An article in the New York Times, entitled “Who Owns the Internet? You and i Do,” dicusses whether the “I” in internet should be capitalized. I have, for a long time, and for many of the reasons Joseph Turrow suggests, thought that capitalization is unnecessary. It is, after all, a part of everyday life. Moreover, […]
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The Cantenna Gospel

Had dinner at a neighbor’s tonight. It was fun, even for an anti-social guy like myself. M is a local attorney who is planning on putting in a wireless system at his firm soon, which just happens to have a sight-line to his roof at home. I think I sold him on playing a bit […]
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Glass factory

Volkswagon is manufacturing its new luxury car in a parquet-floored glass factory. If this catches on, will it mean people are increasingly interested in the economics and ecologies of production? Or will it–more likely in my view–mean that the “dirty” parts of production are forced even further underground, while the final assembly locations are literally […]
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