Dec
19
Claude Beelman, architect. Eastern Columbia Building, Hill and 9th, Los Angeles. Photo by Don Howe.
25 Times a Second
A feast in a time of plague.
“The discovery of a 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, human-kind’s oldest known ancestor, was the greatest scientific breakthrough of 2009, the prestigious journal Science said on Thursday. The fossil, known as Ardi, topped a list of the 10 greatest scientific advances for the year, which also featured the discovery of water on the moon and the use of ultra-thin carbon atom sheets in experimental electronic devices.”
via Yahoo! News, seen first at the excellent daily update Archaeological News.
The single best food blog in the world, bar none. EatingAsia: Piong Ayam.
“Hollywood Glamour Photography: Photographs by Roman Freulich, George Hurrell, Ernest Bachrach, Robert Richee, Six and other greats! “
New beta for a site that will rip Youtube vids direct to MP3 via WFMU. That’s cool.
Steve Gunn & Marc Orleans, c/o the mighty, mighty Root Blog.
“Just as labor migrants around the globe struggle to access a sense of belonging in alien territories, so too do virtual laborers, many of whom are East and South Asian, confront hostility and xenophobia in popular gaming worlds and virtual “workshops” such as World of Warcraft and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Do these users have the right to have rights? This presentation considers the affective investments and cultural identities of these workers within the virtual worlds where they labor.”
MIT Comparative Media Studies: CMS News Archive
The Wright, a New Restaurant, Launches at the Guggenheim, via Artdaily.org.
“In a world of hypothetical architecture contests and imagined landscapes, one does thrill at the possibility that all these deft exercises in computer rendering might one day be actually built. “
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