“Jane Jacobs, a world-renowned writer on urban planning issues, died in Toronto on Tuesday morning. She was 89.”
Spacing Wire has more on the story.
The Death and Life of a Great Urban Visionary
The Death and Life of a Great Urban Visionary
“Jane Jacobs, a world-renowned writer on urban planning issues, died in Toronto on Tuesday morning. She was 89.”
Spacing Wire has more on the story.
I hate moms, sorori-sluts and nachos
This man deserves your scorn. If ever you catch me on a rant about how I hate arrogant hipsters, you’ll know the kind of person I’m talking about. For someone who says “don’t judge me” at the top of his post, he does a whole lot of judging. Prick.
Apple to little girl: drop dead
Third-grade girl thinks up cool ideas to improve iPod Nano. Third-grade girl writes letter to Steve Jobs with ideas as part of class assignment. Apple douchebag lawyer responds with smackdown letter, telling girl to stuff her ideas.
Postscript: Apple douchebag lawyer calls little girl to apologize. Apple changes policy to avoid sending douchebag letters to little kids in future.
Girl probably still not impressed. The end.
angels twenty: required reading (if you’re in California)
This has to be the strangest referrer find yet: a basic English college class at California State University Bakersfield links to angels twenty. It’d be awesome if I got cited in some freshman’s bird course paper!
XP on Mac—officially
I grabbed the hacked package that allowed people to run XP on their shiny new Intel Macs because I figured one day it’d come in useful. Well, looks like I was wrong, because another unthinkable has happened: Apple has released an official solution. Boot Camp is a new dual booter that will eventually be included in Leopard, the next OS X release, and comes with everything you need to run Windows XP (and possibly earlier versions like 2000, though this is unclear) on your Intel Mac except a copy of Windows.
The cynic in me thinks this is a bad idea. Apple is opening a pandora’s box by officially supporting a tool that puts Windows on your Mac; what about the legions of home users who want Windows, install it, and find things that go wrong? Will they call Apple tech support? And what happens when Apple tells them they can’t do anything? Can you imagine if you called Dell and asked for help with Windows, and they told you to shove off? (well, actually, I wouldn’t put it past Dell to fuck over their customers, but that’s another story.) If Boot Camp was an unsupported tool, or at least not packaged with the next OS X release, Apple would have some breathing room, and I think they’re going to need it.
The little kid in me is pleased as punch, wants a Mac again, and will be paying very close attention to the next Macbook/iBook release.
We’re the kids in America
A Florida high school marching band had to turn down the chance to play in London’s New Year’s Day 2007 parade because of the danger they might be attacked by terrorists. Compare and contrast the comments of school board officials and student reaction:
What happens if kids get on a train that blows up? We don’t have trains blowing up in America.
—Herb Wiseman, high school consultant for Lee County
It’s more probable to be struck by lightning or be murdered in your sleep, than to fall prey to an attack by al-Qaeda terrorists.
—Ethan Lapham, member of the Fort Myers High School marching band
CBCR3: How the mighty have fallen
I just had the misfortune of trying to listen to a live set posted to the CBC Radio 3 site. You might remember CBCR3’s previous incarnation as a cutting-edge web magazine that delivered interesting content in an innovative format. It won tons of awards, gained a big cult audience, earned lots of praise from the higher-ups, and was finally shut down and rejigged. I haven’t been to the site since the reorganization—until today, that is.