Article name: "Armstrong's biggest worry: Basque fans." This is "special coverage" indeed. My favorite photo from stage 13. If the competition doesn't end up giving Lance a run for his money until the bitter end then you can always count on a few crazy Frenchmen. The passion and the determination. You won't see this in the Superbowl.
Steve Jobs is making news for something other than his business dealings.In what could become America's highest-profile tear-down, Mr. Jobs, the Apple and Pixar chief executive, is seeking this town's permission to hit the delete button on the 1926 Daniel C. Jackling estate, a moldering manse designed by George Washington Smith, the architect who created the look of Montecito and Santa Barbara in the 1920's.
The house, built for Mr. Jackling, a copper magnate who died in 1956, sits on six wooded acres that Mr. Jobs, then 29, purchased in 1983. Preservationists have deemed the house historic, an important example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, one that currently stands empty and derelict at the end of a stone-lined cul-de-sac. Mr. Jobs, however, can't abide the place. He recently described it publicly as "one of the biggest abominations of a house I've ever seen."
Organized by Terence Riley and Guy Nordenson, "Tall Buildings" documents 25 projects designed between 1991 and the present. An Industrialized Housing System designed by Richard Rogers in 1991-92 for a South Korean manufacturer is the oldest work in the show. The most recent is the Central Chinese Television (CCTV) Tower in Beijing, a triumphal arch remodeled in the style of M. C. Escher by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren/OMA.""Tall Buildings" is at the New York Museum of Modern Art until Sept. 27.
I/O Brush is a new drawing tool aimed at young children, ages four and up, to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, children can draw with the special "ink" they just picked up from their immediate environment.tmg | PROJECTS | Tangible Bits Exhibition
My friend Joel pointed this out to me, it's a great laugh. It's awesome. NPR had a great story this morning about a British street artist who creates graffiti by using cleaning solution to clean his graphics into dirty surfaces.
British authorities aren't sure what to make of the artist who is creating graffiti by cleaning the grime of urban life. The Leeds City Council has been considering what to do with Moose. "I'm waiting for the kind of Monty Python court case where exhibit A is a pot of cleaning fluid and exhibit B is a pair of my old socks," he jokes.From NPR : Artist Draws 'Clean' Graffiti from Dirty Walls
Eight of the nation's largest high-technology companies, consumer electronics makers and movie studios are to announce today a system for licensing and distributing movies and other content produced with the latest digital media technology.They're calling it "Advanced Access Content Systems" and it could be good or really evil. Based on the players involved, Intel, I.B.M., Microsoft, Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, Walt Disney and Time Warner I'm very skeptical, but you should make up your own mind.
Hacktivism, as defined by the Cult of the Dead Cow, the group of hackers and artists who coined the phrase, was intended to refer to the development and use of technology to foster human rights and the open exchange of information.From Wired News: Hactivism and How It Got Here
Note, they are only thinking of tagging the school children's clothing and/or schoolbags, nothing permanent, a few select schools, mostly sounds like a trial. This is also not the first attempt at RFID tagging children, last month Legoland Denmark started offering RFID tracking service to parents. (RFID Journal) Also, today the BBC had an article on using "electronic chips" to track things like ATV's and farm equipment BBC.
The rights and wrongs of RFID-chipping human beings have been debated since the tracking tags reached the technological mainstream. Now, school authorities in the Japanese city of Osaka have decided the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be chipping children in one primary school.From Japan: Schoolkids to be tagged with RFID chips - News & Technology - CNETAsia
For our third Chicagoist rip off of the day, check out this plan for a new Rockin' McDonalds. For those of you who don't know it's right in the heart of the Chicago tourist district by the Hard Rock and Rainforest Cafe.
Chicagoist also has the low down on bike-cabs coming to Chicatown. This wouldn't be such a big deal, after all many cities like San Diego have fleets of taxi-cabs, but Chicago has nada. I'm happy Chicago is getting another form of alternative transportation, but I give it until winter. If Chicago was really behind bike-taxi's they'd have them on Michigan Avenue already.
Chicagoist has the scoop on the new IKEA.
Ever since Scandinavian furniture retailer IKEA opened its Schaumburg store in 1998, it's been looking to add a second one in the Chicago area. Next fall, fans of affordable "Euro chic" home furnishings can flock to a new 310,000-square-fooIKEAea in Bolingbrook.Just remember your IKEA addiction training.
"Schaumburg is one of the highest-performing stores in the world," An Ikea spokesman says, although he wouldn't provide store-specific sales figures for the Midwest anchor located next to Woodfield shopping center. Ikea's 18 U.S. stores brought in $1.3 billion in sales last year, accounting for nearly 11% of the company's $12.2 billion in sales for 2003.Chicagobusiness.com
Signal vs. Noise there are many articles featuring Chicago in "green cities" articles including Metropolis and NPR. One thing not mentioned is that there is a "green exhibit" going on at 224 S. Michigan Avenue in the Santa Fe bulding.
