Friday 16 May 2003

A team including Pollard Thomas & Edwards Architects and housing associations the Grainger Trust and the Guinness Trust has won a £50m housing scheme in Islington, north London [Building] 2:50:38 PM

Residents of east London housing estate to debate and vote on masterplan using interactive TV and internet [Building] 2:49:21 PM

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." [Quotes of the Day] 2:45:56 PM

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." [Quotes of the Day] 2:45:19 PM

According to the Wall Street Journal, in Iraq last week, "The U.S. Army issued orders for troops to seize Mosul's only television station", after the station began rebroadcasting al-Jazeera for short periods. I'm pleased to report that an officer charged with implementing this order, one Major Charmaine Means, refused to follow orders, arguing that it would be intimidating to the station and would therefore undermine free speech. Good for her. Unfortunately, as might be expected, the Major was relieved of her command, and therefore it seems the order was carried out anyway. [Kuro5hin.org] 1:40:52 PM

Natalie Jeremijenko's new "One Tree(s)" art/tech/science/culture project involves planting 1,000 clones of the same tree in various places and monitoring what happens. She's now accepting proposals from interested potential participants. Got a cool place to plant a clone? Let her know. For those of you in the Bay area, an opening reception with introductory remarks by Natalie takes place from 7-10 pm tonight, Friday May 16th, at Pond gallery on 14th street in San Francisco. Link to opening event information, Link to One Trees website, Discuss (thanks, Alex) [Boing Boing] for those of you not in the Bay area and say in the....... east London area - what a great idea coupled with the web a great education project too. 1:28:28 PM

I was reading something today about how bloggers quite often don't offer the reader any information about themselves at all. I guess it's true, although I don't hide my biases it's probably hard to judge what sort of person I am. So i've added a little bit of biography via the "About Me" button in my right hand link panel. It's a work in progress but hopefully gives more of the flavour (I won't ask which one). [Curiouser and curiouser!] Matt Mower discussing the ins and outs of talking about ones-self on the web. I suppose the reasons behind blogs are the thing - mine is mostly a link of bookmarks i share with friends I think I am too much of a "work in progress" to write down anything more than what I am at the moment of writing. Maybe I'll look into it though. 1:25:04 PM

futileboy writes "There's a great article in the WSJ about how to use technology to avoid work, while giving the impression of working. At the bottom of the ... [Slashdot] 12:26:21 AM

it wasn't so exciting it's just that the code threw the page design - not censorship then - alright? 12:07:04 AM