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Archives for May 2005
Unintended Consequences
Radley linked to this article about a new law passed by the New York City Council that mandates a 2-1 women-to-men bathroom ratio in all new public venues.
I wonder how many of the affected venues will take advantage of the loophole:
Venue owners can circumvent the rule by making all their restrooms unisex.
links for 2005-05-26
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This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read.
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He who always wears a name tag.
links for 2005-05-25
Lack of Artistic Vision
We’re plannning a trip to Biloxi, Mississippi sometime in 2007.
The wife and I are both looking forward to seeing the new Frank Gehry complex for the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum which should open by then.
We shall travel all the way to Biloxi. Because it’s Gehry.
I think the trustees of the Corcoran Gallery have blown it for the museum by refusing to follow David C. Levy’s vision. The Gehry revovation would have put the Corcoran on the map. The trustees should have just gotten out of Levy’s way.
The Corcoran needed it. The institution is still shrouded in relative obscurity, and many of the people outside of Washington who have heard of it usually still only remember the Mapplethorpe fiasco in 1989.
The city needed it. Most of DC’s architecture is derivative. We have bastardized replicas of the Parthenon, the Pantheon, and the Mausoleum of Halikarnossos. We have an Egyptian obelisk and a Florentine dome. The ultimate irony is that the most obvious American architectural form of the 20th-century, the skyskraper, is conspicuously absent from skyline of our nation’s capital.
I’m just hoping someone comes through with the $100 million it will take to save the project.
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links for 2005-05-23
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A cool but freakishly expensive furniture gallery in Soho.
links for 2005-05-19
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It reminds me of “Smell the Glove”
Very, Very Disturbing
I caught the film Five Corners on television last night. There’s a scene where a deranged John Turturro clubs a penguin to death with a baseball bat while a horrified Jodie Foster watches.
It is, by far, the most disturbing scene in any movie I have ever watched. Go rent it.
An Infallible Auto Choice
I received this from Volkswagen today:
links for 2005-05-12
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A study of basic icons used on websites.
The Worst Sounding Instrument Ever Made
This MP3 shows why you shouldn’t build a harpsichord out of LEGOs.
links for 2005-05-10
Creative Destruction
The Berlin Holocaust Memorial was dedicated today.
I really wish they had exercised the vision necessary to go with one of Horst Hoheisel’s concepts instead of Peter Eisenman’s gray concrete slabs:
Hoheisel instead takes on a kind of deconstructive and destructive approach to everything. The object of his design was Berlin’s famous Brandenburg Gate, the imperial bulwark without which, for many residents and visitors alike, there would be no Berlin. Hoheisel’s most shocking idea was to raze the Brandenburg Gate to the ground, crush it to bits and pieces, and make a memorial out of what was left. Barring the destruction or absence of the gate, he also had a design in which the infamous sign at the gateway to Auschwitz–”Arbeit Macht Frei” or “Work Sets You Free”–would be superimposed on the Brandenburg Gate, in forever fashion.
Audiophile on the Cheap, Part II
In the previous post I neglected to mention that I also use an Apple Airport Express to losslessly stream audio to a downstairs radio over an 80211g network. The radio in question is a Tivoli Audio Model Two, an excellent value for the money–and it’s sexy and retro to boot.
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links for 2005-05-05
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Sell digital goods online with PayPal.
links for 2005-05-04
links for 2005-05-03
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PHP functions for Flickr
