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LOLTherorists

Kellan — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:16:42 +0000

in ur society, bein teh mysteerious 0thr! Also LOLFeeds, and LOLBots (aka robot finds kitten?)

http://community.livejournal.com/loltheorists/

MySpace hacked: Viral vectors mutating and spreading among previously unaffectable communities.

Kellan — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:13:31 +0000

First Warcraft and now MySpace. Apparently all social ventures are susceptible to viruses. (Is that a new law?)

http://fast.info/myspace/

Open seminar on Mieville’s Iron Council

Kellan — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 03:37:58 +0000

I’d been putting off reading IC, but after I saw this I read it on the plane today

http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/003096.html

Think like Gramsci, talk like Debs

Kellan — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:38:29 +0000

Ken MacLeod on ‘framing’, and a left/progressive real politick

http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_kenmacleod_archive.html#110003483936259215

Arthur unpacks the myth of a utopian prefiguration as a necessary condition for Electric Sheep

Kellan — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 02:47:12 +0000

Who knew Arthur had a blog?

http://pissedkid.com/archives/000726.php

Emergence & Jacobs

Kellan — Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:39:00 +0000

I just started reading Emergence last night, and I begin to grasp why Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities, has started popping up on peoples’ reading lists everywhere.

Death and Life is a great book, I found it years ago, digging through my fathers urban planning collection. But until recently I would have thought it was a much cited, but little read classic from an earlier century, and I’ve been puzzled that it was expirencing a reniassance.

Has the recent gaps in the NYC skyline interested everyone in urban planning again? Nope. The book is just getting great marketting from Emergence, and its cheap to pick up at your local used bookstore.

Personally I got more of a kick out of reading her “The Economy of Cities”, which immediately sent me into throws of longing for a game that crossed SimCity and Civiliziation, though it had less to say, and was more speculative.