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Thursday, March 17th, 2005
End of the world as we know it
OK. There are days when the items in the news look like a conspiracy. Today was one of those days. There’s a thread of the threat of extinction about it all. The headless and heartless U.S. Senate attached a rider to a budget bill to open the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration, [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Miscellany by pzingg
Tuesday, March 15th, 2005
Visions 1: How to build a computer
Unfortunately for the world, we are losing visionaries at an unacceptable rate. This month marked the passing of Jef Raskin, who believed (against all odds) that computer systems can be built that don’t break and are understandable to users. At his death, he was working on putting into use a way for users to work [...]
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
Another voyage to Italy
Everyone knows how Marty Scorsese should have won at least one Oscar by now. He will probably be in that small group of old timers hung out to wait for a lifetime achievement award. In 2001, he made an extraordinary introduction to postwar Italian cinema titled My Voyage to Italy. In four hours, he excerpts [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Film by pzingg
Monday, March 14th, 2005
p.s. i love you
I spent two nights in ps at the Caliente tropics, lair of the tiki gods and half-price mai tais. The second night, I walked the boulevards under starlight past huge adventist churches and the high school, the mega Ralphs and the frog-filled Tahquitz wash, fresh from Southern California’s wettest winter in recent history, to see [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Architecture by pzingg
Monday, March 14th, 2005
Why another blog?
What the world needs less of is another blog. Nonetheless, I am going ahead just as other bloggers are showing the white flag. I want to try to address some of the things that have stricken me for better or for worse in our decadent, technological, capitalist society. Maybe every noun in this blog should [...]
