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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus processedlives: There Goes the ‘Hood, by Lance Freeman, 2006 Fair and Healthy Land Use: Environmental Justice and Planning, by Craig Anthony Arnold, 2007 Aesthetics of Equity, by Craig Wilkins, 2007 Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States, by…
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Americans have, at this juncture in our history, become accustomed to conducting our most painful reckonings in public. The balcony of the Lorraine Motel, Dealey Plaza, the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel, and a forsaken driveway in Mississippi occupy a profane corner in the minds of a generation of Americans. Yet the geography of conflict…
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Real Windows 3.0 Solitaire deck of cards
jkottke: Susan Kare, who famously designed the original icons for the Apple Macintosh, has teamed up with Areaware to offer real decks of cards with her artwork from Windows 3.0’s version of Solitaire. Nice example of defictionalization. They’re currently sold out but I’m hoping they restock so I can order a deck. (via subtraction)
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Usage absolutists are the Scalia-esque Originalists of the language-maven set. Their emphasis on “timeless” grammatical truths, in opposition to most linguists’ view of language as a living, changing thing, is at heart conservative; their fulminations about the grammatical violations perpetrated by the masses mask deeper anxieties about moral relativism and social turbulence. Mark Dery in…
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wolfliving: http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/ Put it all together, and you can get some pretty creative results. Take Chinese toy company Dan Dan Man, which created Mon-Mon (user ID: idandanman), a bluetooth-enabled stuffed animal toy that integrates WeChat with the offline world. Parents can use the Mon-Mon official account in WeChat to send personal voice messages and pre-recorded…
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personalfactory: myminifactory: TGIF 🎉 Ready for a relaxing battleship board game with your mates? Nice design!
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Estrecho del rio Magdalena
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salon: 1. Oliver Slams Mandatory Minimums and Mass Incarceration Just last week, Oliver piggybacked off the news of President Obama’s 46 commutations and pivoted to our country’s insane mandatory minimums and their role in making the US the world leader in incarcerating its people. 2. Oliver Blasts the U.S. Bail System for Locking up Poor…
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thegetty: The “Great Wave” by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai has long been the world’s go-to emblem for tsunamis. Thing is, it doesn’t depict a tsunami. Scientists have identified it as a “rogue wave,” a freak occurrence caused by high winds and strong currents in the open sea rather than on the shore. —Why the Iconic…
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One of the most notorious criminals of all time, and also said to be the wealthiest in history, Pablo Escobar inspires yet another television series “Narcos”. Although Escobar has been fictionalized on screen various times over the years – “Blow” in 2001, “Escobar: Paradise Lost” in 2014 – the upcoming Netflix series chooses to focus…