Apple 1984 Commercial

“Why 1984 won’t be like 1984…”.

An original Mac Ad–now nearly 12 years old.

Add comment Datestamp: November 21st, 2005

CommonCensus Map Project

CommonCensus Map Project
The CommonCensus Map Project is redrawing the map of the United States based on your voting, to reveal the boundaries people themselves feel, as opposed to the state and county boundaries drawn by politicians. View the maps to see how the country is divided into ’spheres of influence’ between different cities at the national, regional, and local levels:

Add comment Datestamp: November 21st, 2005

The Million Dollar Homepage - Own a piece of internet history!

The Million Dollar Homepage - Own a piece of internet history!

Anyone who blogs this should get a cut…

And it reminds me a bit of this relic, Save Karyn, from 2002.

Add comment Datestamp: November 17th, 2005

:: Gordon Matta-Clark: Odd Lots at Queens Museum

:: Gordon Matta-Clark: Odd Lots
Gordon Matta-Clark and Fake Estates
In the early 1970s, Matta-Clark discovered that the City of New York periodically auctioned off “gutterspace”—unusably small slivers of land sliced from the city grid through anomalies in surveying, zoning, and public-works expansion. He purchased fifteen of these lots, fourteen in Queens and one in Staten Island. Over the next years, he collected the maps, deeds, and other bureaucratic documentation attached to the slivers; photographed, spoke, and wrote about them; and considered using them as sites for his unique brand of “anarchitectural” intervention into urban space.

Add comment Datestamp: November 15th, 2005

Environment Factoid

From Greenwatch:

“NRDC and many others have long called for stronger vehicle mileage standards, since automobiles represent 40 percent of U.S. oil consumption. “Raising fuel economy performance standards for SUVs and other light trucks by just 1 mile per gallon per year over five years would save a million barrels of oil per day by 2020,” reads an NRDC press release in response to Barton’s call for more drilling.”

Add comment Datestamp: November 15th, 2005

BBC NEWS | The Fate of ICANN

Internet showdown
The US is headed for a showdown with much of the rest of the world over control of the internet at this week’s UN summit in Tunisia.

And then visit Free the Net, an individual’s attempt to break the US government’s control over the internet.

Add comment Datestamp: November 15th, 2005

BBC NEWS | Business | Google searches for the future

Does Google know what it’s doing ?

Probably not. And therein may lie its genius.

Add comment Datestamp: November 15th, 2005

The Wal-Mart Movie is Out

WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price
Everyone has seen Wal-Mart’s lavish television commercials, but have you ever wondered why Wal-Mart spends so much money trying to convince you it cares about your family, your community, and even its own employees? What is it hiding?

WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel… and shop.

Add comment Datestamp: November 14th, 2005

US Soldiers Killed in Iraq

A Look at Those Who Died in Iraq

The number of US soldiers killed in Iraq now exceeds 2000. The New York Times creates an interactive document of the soldiers who have died in the war.

Add comment Datestamp: November 13th, 2005

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Zapped! Video in Exit Art’s show Traffic.

Add comment Datestamp: November 13th, 2005