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A few weeks ago I read an entry on the always informative downloadsquad.com blog that pointed me to the Google Co-op project. It was a how-to explaining an easy way to construct a list of sites to include in a custom search engine by importing your XML list of sites from your RSS reader. The [...]

Notes from last week’s Ecobuild conference Some advice: If you’re due to speak at a seminar about the environment any time soon, please, stop to think about what your audience is likely to know already. Ditch the stuff about how we’re all doomed and you’ve got the pie chart to prove it. We know. It’s [...]

And there I was thinking I ruled the roost when it came to sharing architectural images of days gone by. A link by thingsmagazine.net to nastybrutalistandshort caught my eye for another reason when I spotted a Gorden Cullen sketch taken from a book that currently resides on my bedside table*: Homes for Today and Tomorrow [...]

Cambridge Journals Online – arq: Architectural Research Quarterly ‘…arq acts as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge work covering all aspects of architectural endeavour…’ (logged because I just noticed the RSS feed for article titles) (tags: architecture magazine pdf rss journal)

Program | Situated Technologies Podcasts of recent Architecture and Situated Technologies symposium (tags: architecture technology podcast)

Friday’s tutorials with my post-graduate students from BSA introduced me to a new, influential figure in contemporary architecture. I met him some time ago, but until now hadn’t considered his importance. Say hello to 2D_Man_Backpack: He’s one of the default figures in the industry changing software, Google Sketchup. I’ve used him myself in models before, [...]

Submit Response » Separated At Birth – Hyundai + Gazprom From the traffic jam I was stuck in at the start of the day, to my mobile, into Twitter, on to Jack, onto his blog, back to me in my RSS feed, on to my del.icio.us linklog, to my blog at the end of the [...]

Archinect : Features : Architecture’s Second Life ‘…When it comes down to it, from an architectural perspective, Second Life just sort of replicates suburbia…’ I’m slightly embarrassed that the only thing that’s prevented me from making some spaces in SL is that I’m too mean to pay for the land. (tags: architecture gaming software virtual) [...]

A final collection of archive links before accepting the need to get on with 2007 and write something new. The podcast (which so far contains only two episodes): Episode 2 – ArchWeekWalk Annotated walk to my office Episode 1 – Jencks and Erskine Erskine puts the world (and critics) to rights And other topics…This is [...]

Clip/Stamp/Fold THE RADICAL ARCHITECTURE OF LITTLE MAGAZINES 196X–197X (via thingsmagazine.net via anothercompany.blogspot.com) (tags: architecture art design magazine history)