Children's Books You'll Never See
was the
Cruel Site of the Day for July 01, 1999. (Thanks to Gordon for the pointer.)
Thomas Friedman : Was Kosovo World War III?
Mr. Friedman defends the
Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention.
Daniel Pinkwater on Mensa.
"I don't think I have to make an argument in support of how cool I am." real audio.
Roberta Smith on The Un-Private House
"Riley's first premise is that the best, most adventurous architecture of the last decade has been domestic. ... His second is that this vitality stems from the way the house is being reshaped on every side, rendered porous and permeable -- "un-private" -- in many ways."
Alistair Cooke : Letters From America
Right here, right now
I've found a fairly significant bug in the code that generates the xml for the
my userland channel, so it may be updated sporadically. :-(
This is a test
to see if
things are working the way
they should be in all possible situations.
Neil Leach : The Anaesthetics of Architecture
"In this culture of aesthetic consumption, this "culture of the cocktail," meaningful discourse gives way to strategies of seduction, and architectural design is reduced to the superficial play of empty, seductive forms." Interestingly, many art schools art trying to re-invent themselves these days by marketing their students as the only ones 'visually literate' enough to make sense of it all.
Chapter one is available as a pdf file.