We are landscape architects coming to grips with digital structures.  The digital geeks do not often venture into the landscape, but this link takes you into an interesting and often amusing 'shoe-on-the-other-foot' discussion at Slashdot on shelter in the landscape.
6:11:49 PM    

From geography to GPS to landscape to urban design to performance art...you name it!

Article from Wired 11:04, April 2003, page 66, by Alison Willmore:

"Imagine walking through the city and triggering moments in time. Imagine wandering through a space inhabited with the sonic ghosts of another era. Like ether, the air around you pulses with spirits, voices, and sounds. Streets, buildings, and hidden fragments tell a story. The setting is the Freight Depot in downtown Los Angeles. At the turn of the century Railroads were synonymous with power, speed and modernization. Telegraphs and Railroads were our first cross-country infrastructures, preceding the Internet. From the history and myth of the Railroad to the present day, sounds and voices drift in and out as you walk."

5:32:11 PM    

Attracting buyers 101: Techs talk. A panel of tech companies including Oracle and Sun give a glimpse into what it takes to attract prospective buyers in this harsh economic environment. [CNET News.com]
4:34:46 PM    

Survey: Turf wars hurt grid computing. Office politics and other social issues are a bigger problem than technology when it comes to the adoption of the "grid" philosophy of pooling computing resources, a study says. [CNET News.com]
4:34:09 PM    

Car mechanics go virtual. Researchers in Germany develop augmented reality systems to replace workshop manuals for car mechanics. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
4:33:19 PM    

At Play With DNA. The 50th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix is now being celebrated visually, with six different exhibitions in Manhattan. By Sarah Boxer. [New York Times: Technology]
4:32:48 PM    

Colonizing Down Under (the Earth). There will never be more land. But there's plenty of undeveloped space underground. Tunneling technologies used in transportation projects like Boston's Big Dig will -- literally -- pave the way. By Fred Hapgood from Wired magazine. [Wired News]
4:31:54 PM    

Mobile snaps getting cleverer. Soon you will be able to share, print and send the images stored on a camera phone. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
4:31:02 PM    

Bluetooth pen's patented patterned paper puzzle. Millions of them. Invisible [The Register]
4:30:15 PM    

Wipro sees clearer skies ahead. The company's product design services unit is stabilizing as it and other Indian technology companies bid for a larger share of product development dollars. [CNET News.com]
4:29:13 PM    

What if Netscape had won?. On the eve of the anniversary of the Mosaic Web browser, CNET News.com's Charles Cooper ponders how things might have evolved had the browser wars turned out differently. [CNET News.com]
4:28:31 PM    

KM's father figure: Robert Buckman. 'Chaos makes serendipity' in the world of knowledge management [InfoWorld: Top News]
4:28:08 PM    

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Alcohol-powered laptops ahead. Toshiba has come up with a cartridge full of methanol which could be used as an alternative to battery power. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

4:27:31 PM    

I saw Stephen Wolfram speak at Watson the other day; I understood his ideas better from the talk than from the first 100 pages of the book. [Hack the Planet]
4:26:18 PM    

Network Guardians Face Thorny Job. Viruses spread faster. Hackers get craftier. And network administrators can hardly keep up with security patches. Executives from the telecom, wireless, cable and satellite industries gather to brainstorm solutions. Michael Grebb reports from Washington. [Wired News]
4:25:05 PM    

50 Years Melding Tech and Sounds. Pauline Oliveros got her first tape recorder in 1953. Since then, she's devoted her life to studying technology's interactions with sound. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]
4:24:44 PM    

2013: What Gadgets Will Look Like. In 10 years of technolust, Wired magazine editors have found plenty of gear that gets their pulse racing. But they always want more. Here's a wish list for 2013. By Sonia Zjawinski from Wired magazine. [Wired News]
4:24:07 PM    

Cyberterror threat overblown, say experts. A panel of experts at the CeBIT trade show said today that terrorists are more likely to use bombs than cyberattacks to instill fear. [Computerworld News]
4:23:05 PM    

Starbuck's isn't everywhere, but McDonald's is. If they went for WiFi access in every store, instead of just those in big cities, they'd have a new business model, and their coffee isn't that bad either. [Scripting News]
4:21:58 PM    

IDC: Tablet PCs off to solid start. The research firm says more than 72,000 of the new, pen-operated computers were shipped last year, and shipments will "grow considerably" this year. [CNET News.com]
4:21:04 PM    

Getting IT spending right this time. Experts at McKinsey Global investigating the relationship between technology implementation and productivity say that smart IT investing does not require a return to the spendthrift ways of the late 1990s. [CNET News.com]
4:20:18 PM    

Knowledge managing. The technology to make KM work is available -- now is the time to reconsider old implementation hurdles and reap the benefits of knowledge sharing [InfoWorld: Top News]
4:19:38 PM