Al Shaw
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The porthole windows seemed like a good idea. But now the house appeared to be leering at them, distinctly ominous.
(Photo: Philip Newton; Dwell, March 2004)
Is social media a fad?
It was unclear how her life had become so riddled with obvious metaphors.
According to [Michel] Bauwens, the emerging long wave will be characterized by renewable energy and green technology, distributed peer-to-peer credit and microlending, relocalized networked manufacturing, a version of small-scale organic agriculture that applies the latest findings of biological science, and a mode of economic organization centered on civil society and peer networks.
However, … it seems unlikely that any such new paradigm can function on anything resembling the current corporate capitalist model.”
Isolation had become their survival strategy.
(Photo: Roger Davies, Dwell, October/November 2004)
Jobs for the Boys?
Obama appoints three major donors to ambassadorial posts.
The things that once so defined him — shag carpeting, Room & Board sofas, monogamy — now suffocated him.
