Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei tweets: “If Twitter censors, I’ll stop using Twitter.”
(h/t Xeni Jardin for the rough translation.)
“ For select high-demand games during the 2012 season, most seats in the Upper Bleacher area of the ballpark will only be offered as “digital tickets” rather than printed tickets, and require the credit card used by the primary purchaser to be swiped at the gate in order to gain entry into the park on game day. ”
Red Sox try new initiative for cheapest seats - Extra Bases - Red Sox blog
nice idea! can anyone explain the downside, if there is one?
Popuphood – a new urban initiative and small business incubator in Oakland sets out to revitalize a struggling neighborhood in six weeks by carving out a rent-free space of entrepreneurial spirit.
“ One explanation for these findings is that introverts are comfortable working alone — and solitude is a catalyst to innovation. ”
If January is any indication, this is going to be a PRETTY good year for faux-bragging. Enjoy! (via Harris Wittels on Kanye West, Arian Foster, and the best of the month in Humblebrag - Grantland)
Most of the passengers and crew survived despite hours of chaos and confusion after the collision. The alarm was raised not by an SOS from the ship but mobile phone calls from passengers on board to Italian police on the mainland.
It was a bottom-up, not top-down, SOS!
(Source: reuters.com)
Obiageli Ezekwesili, “Today’s technology can empower civil society, including the diaspora, to collaborate and support the development process. This collaboration is about shifting the emphasis from organizations to people, and empowering them to solve their own problems and develop their own solutions using maps.” (via Official google.org Blog: World Bank and Google join forces to empower mapping communities around the world)
So a couple months ago, some laptops were stolen from my lab, including one of my own. Unfortunately for the thief, I had installed tracking software on one of those machines…
(Source: youtube.com)
In fact, viewing a city just through a technological lens is problematic in itself: cities reflect the values and cultures of the communities that live in them, not the technologies they use. The original assertion that city governance needs to be “faster, better and cheaper”, is therefore utterly flawed: first and foremost, city governance needs to have local representation and citizen participation, which is further enabled by efficient and cheap information infrastructure. (via Is Your City Smart Enough?)
“ Olympic fencer and movie sword master Bob Anderson appeared in some of film’s most famous dueling scenes — though few viewers knew it. Anderson, who has died at age 89, donned Darth Vader’s black helmet and fought light saber battles in two of the three original “Star Wars” films, “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi. ”
“ When compared to the blinding and glamorous light of its international sibling, House Hunters is a depressing glimpse into the mindset of the American homeowner. By and large, the buyers on House Hunters want to purchase what they already have, but larger. And they want it as far away from other people as possible. Without fail I get disgusted while watching. These domestic consumers are mouth-breathing ham-beasts, ooh-ing and aah-ing with their thick fingers up their thick butts about a property’s library’s potential to be a “sweet man cave. ”
