Posts Tagged ‘design’

Bachelors, Playboy, Cartoons

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Since the girls are gone for a couple of days, I am in Unemployed-Until-January Bachelor mode today.
This means that I slept in, and that upon waking I was allowed to relish the rare opportunity to lie about in bed and read something without needing to rush off to something or other.
Since it is a mini-bachelor [...]

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Parasitic Homes

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Now here’s an SF idea from the post-cyberpunk era–something out of Sterling, Stephenson1, or the Metatropolis guys: parasitic homes.

There’s lots more images and details over at Inhabit.com, but the basic idea is that the ongoing rise of urban density (presumably driven by increased fuel prices and the hollowing of the suburbs) will mean we can’t [...]

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A Guide To Grown-up Thinking

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

I read a lot of magazines–oddly more offline than on. I think this is because my online reading tends to be wide-ranging, shallow, and driven by references from other sources–there are few “online magazines” that I find myself reading “cover to cover”, as it were. Interesting magazines tend to be composed of pieces that are [...]

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Even More Things I Did Not Know

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Science has brought us a permanent, but easily-removable, tattooing ink. Does this change the metatext of tattooing? I mean, the pain is still there, but if the permanence isn’t part of the subtext anymore, what does that mean for the story? Is it to obvious to predict the rise of a serial-tattooing culture, or a [...]

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The Farouche Assemblage

Monday, October 8th, 2007

If you read this blog closely, you will have noticed a few mentions of Matt Hughes, particularly including my mention of being startled at finding out there was a Hughes chapbook forthcoming from a publisher I had previously never heard of.
Well, you can be sure I’ll be paying a lot more attention to Payseur And [...]

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