Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Accuracy: Marianne Moore and the FORD Motor Company
The power of wikis is communal knowledge. The accuracy of what everyone knows is almost always greater than what somebody knows. I had a lesson in communal knowledge last week. I was in a meeting and I got a call on my cell phone from a number that I didn’t recognize. I answered and it…
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Craigslist Book Experiment
So I started an experiment a couple weeks ago on the “free stuff” section of craisglist. I posted the following: Free Book: Economics > Poetry & Essays Reply to: dan_x_oneil@yahoo.com Date: 2005-01-24, 10:10AM CST Free book. Published in 2003. Relevant today. I wrote it. Here’s info: http://www.juggernautco.com/offline/books/economics/index.html Just email me & I’ll mail it or…
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Bibiliography of American Poetry told through the Pulitzer Prize
sandburg_complete_poems Originally uploaded by juggernautco. The Bibiliography of American Poetry told through the Pulitzer Prize is a little-appreciated piece of obsessiveness that I started compiling in the early 90s. Looking back, it was my first Derivative Works/ GoogObits-y type of work product in that it is a smart-alecky/ link-laden adventure of tangents. Here’s…
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Boing Boing’s Got It Wrong
I am a huge fan of Boing Boing, but they put their patented Indigant Taser on the wrong target today. On the same day I changed my full-text archive into links to the NYT, they complain that one cannot email the full text of an article any longer. All you have to do is choose…
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Mappr
Mappr is a very cool mapping application that uses the Flickr API to present Flickr photos geographically. Here’s what they say about themselves: Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take. By adding geographical information to the wealth of photographs found on Flickr, it allows new ways of looking…