Tag Archives: Del.icio.us Links

Feb. 25, 1723: He Built His City With Rock and Rule Short bio of Christopher Wren, who died on this day in 1723. (tags: history architecture)

Nader announces new run for president – Yahoo! News Jesus. What an asshole. (tags: politics asshole split-the-vote-again-moron) Italians hark back to the days of Futurism Futurism is fascizzle, my nizzle. (tags: art italian futurism marinetti-was-a-pimp) YouTube – david lynch “industrial symphony no. 1” pt 1/5 Haven’t seen this in maybe fifteen years. Extremely strange performance/dance/music […]

Stanford drops tuition for some students Free for students whose parents make under $100K; free room and board for $60K or less. Nice. (tags: interesting education i’m-broke-can-i-go?)

cityofsound: The street as platform Excellent post by Dan Hill. If you’re interested in ubiquitous computing — or even the future of how cities work — this is worth your time. (tags: urbanism ubicomp)

Texas Beyond History (tags: history texas)

New Poll Gauges Americans’ General Knowledge Levels Posted without comment. (tags: education survey)

Oscar town: Marfa, Texas? – Yahoo! News Cool story, but it doesn’t mention the Marfa Lights (tags: texas movies post-urbanism)

Borders – Feature – Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (tags: cooking howto bourdain)

Lifestudies: A diary of a rock ‘n’ roll divorce: Music: mensvogue.com Sad story by Dean Wareham (formerly of Luna) detailing his affair with bassist Britta Phillips, his subsequent divorce and re-marriage to Britta. I don’t know the guy, but I hope it works out. (tags: music biographical article)

Last Exit to Nowhere Awesome t-shirt site of fictional movie companies. I want the ‘Overlook Hotel’ shirt. Pity they’re priced in expensive British money. (tags: tshirts design movies funny cool)