http://archgfx.net Austin web designer - Adam Freetly Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:50:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/chicago/buckshot-ep-10-feedreading http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/chicago/buckshot-ep-10-feedreading#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:50:19 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/?p=1339

apophenia: knol: content w/out context, collaboration, capital, or coruscation.
Knol is something like a communal blog, it's closest competitor is about.com, not wikipedia.  Actually, with author-based archives, shared categories/tags, and embedded adsense, it's a lot like wordpress.com.  Given google's attrocious splog record with blogspot, i doubt they'll be doing as much competing as they think they will.

via Prunings - Chicago is inverting itself
It's a very interesting article on what's been happening to american cities since the 90's drop in crime.  I heavily doubt their predictions for the future, though.  The factors that drive people to the suburbs are still present, and haven't been entirely outweighed by the price of energy, nor will they be anytime soon.    Also, centralization benefits immigrants much more than it benefits the wealthy.  Immigrants aren't going to be taking over edge cities any time soon.  They'll be taking over other cities that aren't so expensive.

via Ian Dixon - ReadyBoost works.
Cool trick, my laptop runs faster now, much less likely to turn into molasses when I open photoshop and illustrator at the same time.  Nonetheless, making Vista a little bit faster only reminds me how slow it is on the whole.  I'd love to switch to the recently released OpenSuse 11, I just need the free time to do it.

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