The Flower contrasts a utopian society that freely farms and consumes a pleasure giving flower with a society where the same flower is illegal and its consumption is prohibited.
Monthly Archives: July 2010
On the Street: 1963 Studebaker Lark Cruiser
See the full gallery on posterous This is a car that I can honestly say I’ve have never seen before. When I stumbled across this mid-60s Studebaker the other day, I had absolutely no clue what make or model it was. The chrome ‘Studebaker’ on the trunk gave the marque away, but it was only [...]
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Urban farming on Cathedral Hill
Walking home yesterday, I took a route I’d never followed before. This part of the city, below Geary between Octavia and Van Ness, can be very ramshackle in places, and is very car-oriented. As I was meandering, I ran across this public garden. It’s not the most refined space in SF, but I found it [...]
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Quintron
These little sculptures are crafted in metal using 3-D printing of mathematical models by crafting and math genius Bathsheba. My colleague and friend Lauren likes to bring neat little artifacts into work, and when she started talking these up a month or two ago, I was intrigued. I didn’t quite grok the magical quality of [...]
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Goodbye Transbay Terminal, hello Transit Center
With the impending demoltion of the Transbay Terminal making the news recently, I thought it would be good time to look at the vision of the new Transbay Transit Center. The scale of the new vision is undeniably massive. It starts with the Transit Center itself, but also includes a redevelopment plan that envelopes much of [...]
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Quote: “Windows Phone 7 is the Clay Standard”
If the iPhone is the platinum standard, Android is the gold standard, WebOS is the bronze standard, and Symbian and BlackBerry tie for tin. Windows Phone 7 is clay — a clay pigeon, in fact. via infoworld.com Haha, good one!
Infographic of the Week: Federal Subsidies – Fossil Fuels vs. Renewable Energy
The vast majority of federal subsidies for fossil fuels and renewable energy supported energy sources that emit high levels of greenhouse gases when used as fuel. Fossil fuels (left) garner far greater subsidies than renewables, to the tune of $72 billion over the study period ('02-08). Renewable fuels, meanwhile, saw just $29 billion over the [...]