December 2011
10 posts
After-Hours in Los Angeles →
icons and their vinyl →
60 ways to make life simple again →
Zaha Hadid's Extension of Ordrupgaard Museum in... →
read up and come out to play
http://www.sfbg.com/slowhands
http://www.facebook.com/events/272509986119011/
dance dance dance
A Nation's Education Left Behind →
In a book published last year, I said that I was wrong. I was wrong on every count. Testing should be used for diagnostic purposes, to help students and teachers, but it has turned into a blunt instrument that is used to reward and punish teachers and schools. Charters should serve the neediest, but, with some notable exceptions, they have become aggressive and entrepreneurial. Instead of...
Out of a Writer’s Imagination Came an Interactive... →
When he was asked, toward the end of lunch, where he thought computing might be headed, he paused to rephrase the question. “I’ll tell you what I’d like to see happen,” he said, and began discussing what the future was supposed to have looked like, back in his 1960s childhood. He ticked off the tropes of what he called “techno-optimistic science fiction,” including flying cars and jetpacks. And...