March 11, 2009
Coding Horror: Why Can't Error Messages Be Fun? - Chrome is a joy to use, and in my opinion at least, it's the first true advance in web browser technology since the heady days of Internet Explorer 4.0. Chrome is filled with so many thoughtful details, so many reimaginings of web browser functio...
Vinny Carpenter's blog
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Vinny Carpenter
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A designer in Holland has revamped the interior of Amsterdam ad agency Nothing with interlocking cardboard. The office redesign by Joost van Bleiswijk used 500 square meters of reinforced cardboard and did not to use any glue or screw to interconnect the 1500 separate pieces. More Photos on Jaachim ...
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Piers Fawkes
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March 10, 2009
The Prada Transformer is a huge four-sided open-air building whose floor can be any one of its radically different sides. Massive cranes rotate it into place, leaving the other three to compose its ever-changing ceiling. This isn't some neat concept, it's an actual construction, penned by Rem Koolha...
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Wilson Rothman
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There’s a charming old picture of the hoary Universalist church in Oxford, Massachusetts with retail space on its ground floor and the meeting-space above. Wise, that. Empty churches — by which I mean the buildings — are bad stewards no matter where or when they are, and these days...
Boy in the Bands
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Scott Wells
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March 09, 2009
Wow, isn't this home striking? It's a green house and a house meant to act like a true greenhouse -- the steel-framed structure is enveloped in alternating layers of insulated transparent glass and translucent polycarbonate plates, so when the sun comes through the glass and heats up the interior,...
Green Building : Jetson Green
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Preston Koerner
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March 07, 2009
If you were looking for a great example of a collaborative map-reduce, then you don't have look much further than the amount of feedback and commentary that the earlier 'Collaborative Map-Reduce in the Browser' post received in a short span of twenty four hours. After making appearances on Slashdot,...
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Ilya Grigorik
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March 06, 2009
Hearing the word "bunker," one most likely thinks of the Cold War, of protecting oneself and one's valuables from destruction, specifically nuclear destruction. Cold War bunkers ranged from individual shelters buried in one's suburban backyard to the US government's many real or mythological subterr...
A Daily Dose of Architecture
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John
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Filed under: Europe, South America, France Last week we announced a new partnership between Gadling and the self-styled "independent travel" specialists over at BootsnAll. Every Friday we'll be taking a look at some of our favorite BootsnAll content from the past week, along with a few choice words ...
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Jeremy Kressmann
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Some time back, D Mac over at the wonderful Creative Minority Report did a piece on a distinctly disappointing proposal for a west-coast shrine to the Divine Mercy. Note the picture above. While mildly traditional--cruciform plan, check; domes, check; crucifix, check; rose-window, check--the design ...
New Liturgical Movement
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noreply@blogger.com (Matthew Alderman)
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March 05, 2009
In her new book “An Altar in the World,” bestselling author Barbara Brown Taylor writes about “the practice of paying attention.” She explains: The practice of paying attention is as simple as looking twice at people and things you might just as easily ignore. To see takes ti...
World of Psychology
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Therese J. Borchard
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