Today’s Links
- Joi Ito’s Web: Talking to Danny Hillis about Time and Comments from Takemura Sensei about ‘Ma’. “The water clock measures time in terms of the quantity of water. Thus the physical quantity of accumulating water expressed time, which was understood as material quantity.” (Via Heckler & Coch.)
- Genre. “I’m not immediately concerned with whether I am going to be writing science fiction, fantasy, [...] or whatever. I’m just trying to write a Jim Kelly story. As I shape the piece, however, it often becomes clear what genre I’ve wandered into.”
- FTPOnline Special Report: Service-Oriented Architecture.
- Enterprise Architect – Build Software Like Building Bridges. (Reg. req’d.) “Create quality code and consistent architecture with model-driven, pattern-based development.”
- Enterprise Architect – Defining the Role of the Chief Architect. (Reg. req’d.) “A simple model of architect types sets the stage for an in-depth survey of roles and responsibilities.” (Via Nick Katsivelos.)
- Guardian Unlimited | Arts special reports | Skin and bone. “Architects have been designing and planning organic structures for a decade. Now, finally, says Nigel Coates, some of them are getting built.”
- deconstructor: The Imageability of Bilbao. Absolutely brilliant post!
- Amazon.com: Wish List [of Jeff Heuer]. Lots of interesting books.
- Going Dutch – Can Rem Koolhaas hold onto the title of world’s most influential architect? “A slide-show essay on the rock star of architecture.”
- Everett Rogers, Difussion of Innovations, Glossary of Terms. “Diffusion is the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system.” (Via Nick Katsivelos.)
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