“… [L]ook at the cities with stable and recovering home markets. On this coast, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and San Diego come to mind. All of these cities have fairly strict development codes, trying to hem in their excess sprawl. Developers, many of them, hate these restrictions. They said the coastal cities would eventually price the middle class out, and start to empty.
It hasn’t happened. Just the opposite. The developers’ favorite role models, the laissez faire free-for-alls — Las Vegas, the Phoenix metro area, South Florida, this valley — are the most troubled, the suburban slums.
-from here.
Bean burritos, which are high in protein and low in saturated fat have been touted for their health benefits. Black bean burritos are also a good source of dietary fiber and phytochemicals.[14]
- here.
its no lie! if wikipedia says it then, it must be true!
“Cocaine is gods way of telling you, you make too much money.”
- Robin Williams
Tortoise performing in their home turf, Chicago.
“It is the use of ‘rock instrumentation’ for non-rock purposes. Practitioners of the genre’s style typically produce instrumental music.”
or, essentially, ‘Post-rock music is rock instrumentation used for non-rock instrumental music.’
- from here.
After millions of taxpayers dollars were put to hard work, it turns out that the brain can tell when human skin is be stroked by human skin.
Put in other words, we know when we are being touched.
And that it feels nice.
from here.
in a recent article from the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), the past years net of roughly 62 trillion spam emails have sucked and drained the equivalent of the power needed to run 2.4 million homes over the course of a year.
thats a lot of spam!
link here.
“Beyond the English language paradigm, computer programming codes are written in a special dialect that often suffers from legibility. It is the well-tabbed program codes that are known to be the sign of an enlightened mind.”
hey, is that my code? really? and so well tabbed?
from John Maeda – The Laws of Simplicity
March 7th, 2009
code,
QOTD
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A 14 year old boy was discovered masquerading as a police officer AFTER 5 assignments and 2 hours behind the wheel of cop car. Apparently, the kid just walked in (“infiltrated”) a station, dressed in a cop uniform (“disguise”) he purchased from costume shop.
from here
“Attack and defence, invasion and repulsion… it was as if breasts were little pieces of property that had been unlawfully annexed by the opposite sex – they were rightfully ours and we wanted them back.”
from hornby’s classic tale of the self-loathing male, addictive yet sheepish. surprisingly, the movie rendition uses most of rob’s – or, for that matter, dick and barry’s – best quotes word for word, even using the intended intonations and pausing. really a very nice book and highly recommended.*
*note: just dont use my copy – its apparently been once owned by a messy-eating, clumsy-bathing, page-tearing type, and is either full of character, about to fall apart or both.
“Persuasion, in the form of logos, ad campaigns, and the ever-broadening array of activities known as branding, has attained the status of Necessary Evil to many of us. Designers–as we repeatedly tell each other in school, in the studio, and at conferences–are all about function, emotion and progress; persuasion is for shills.”
-from here
necessary? perhaps a stretch; i suggest ‘assumed to be needed because, since its invention, its necessity & validity has never been questioned, its pertinence to every day life never analyzed – so long as profits remain.”
in the wake of the our current (and looming) world economic situational adjust, superfluous activities and practices will begin to reveal themselves, gradually (but temporarily) stealing the limelight from – but then redirecting to – the still-profitable and relevant.
when absolute need begins to take precedence, the facade built by marketing & branding will slowly become useless and irrelevant. when the grip of absolute need is irrefutable, product & service design will realign to the constraints of base human activity while simultaneously prompting an evaluation of the ‘need’ concept.
“Amar Bose believes that imperfect knowledge of psychoacoustics limits the ability to adequately characterize quantitatively any two arbitrary sounds that are perceived differently, and to adequately characterize and quantify all aspects of perceived quality. He believes, for example, that distortion is much over-rated as a factor in perceived quality in the complex sounds that comprise music, noting that a sine wave and a square wave (a hugely distorted sine wave) are audibly indistinguishable above 7 kHz. Similarly, he does not find measurable relevance to perceived quality in other easily measured parameters of loudspeakers and electronics, and therefore does not publish those specifications for Bose products. The ultimate test, Bose insists, is the listener’s perception of audible quality (or lack of it) and his or her own preferences.[22] Unlike other major speaker manufacturers, Bose does not publish specifications relating to the measured electrical and objective acoustic performance of its products.[23] [24]. This reluctance to publish information is due to Bose’s rejection of these measurements in favour of “more meaningful measurement and evaluation procedures”…” – aka, the listeners ears.
-from the wiki article on Bose.
