This month Portland Modern, realtor Bob Zaikoski’s website, is featuring a profile that Bob and I wrote about architect Saul Zaik, FAIA. Portland Modern is a sponsor of this site, but this post is not intended to be extra promotion. Rather, I’m writing this to spread the word about Zaik, an 82 y...

As the Issue 14: Architect update for City of Heroes draws closer to release, NCsoft drops new information and screenshots explaining how players will go about adding their own original content to the game. The Mission Architect for City of Heroes and City of Villains actually appears in game within...

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat - good coders code, great reuse - Netcat is often referred to as a “Swiss Army knife” utility, and for a good reason. Just like the multi-function usefulness of the venerable Swiss Army pocket knife, netcat’s functionality is as helpful....

Director : Adrian Lyne Release Date : 7 April 1993 (USA) Genre : Drama, Romance Cast : Robert Redford as John Gage, Demi Moore as Diana Murphy, Woody Harrelson as David Murphy, Seymour Cassel as Mr. Shackleford, Oliver Platt as Jeremy, Billy Bob Thornton as Day Tripper, Rip Taylor as Mr. Langford, B...

All women building firm gets contract for UK's first straw council houses...

[Images courtesy Las Vegas Sun] Starchitecture fail No. 2: A new boutique hotel in Las Vegas from starchitect Sir Normal Foster was slated for 49 stories, but will end up topping off at 28 stories thanks to 15 floors of wrongly installed rebar. Total NIMBY orgasm. [via Curbed mothership] · Wors...

Roger Sessions just posted a new article the titled “Obama's Information Technology Priority�, published as an editorial in the International Association of Software Architects (January 2009). The abstract for the article from his blog: Federal IT projects fail at an alarming rate. The total cos...

Ogun - Checkmate (Architects Recording Studio/Real On Purpose Ent.) This week in the City Paper I reviewed Ogun's new mixtape, although really it's been out for a few weeks already so you should already have it. Last year we named him the best male MC in our Best Of Baltimore issue and I really feel...

So we have another new building in Brighton to marvel at. Well, actually and technically we don’t. I’m lying slightly in the vain hope that somehow that will make you more curious and hence more likely to continue reading. And now I’m self-referentially commenting on the fact. Oh h...

My Tip o’ the hat goes to: The greeter at IKEA Osborne Park in Perth, when I walked in there for the first time this week. Sometimes I like to pretend I’m independent, you see, part of the Human Race of folks who sometimes Go Out and sometimes Buy Stuff. Which would likely be relatively ...