Posts from April, 2004

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    Apr
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    What town am I?
    John Massengale is a “recovering architect,” author (New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890 – 1915), and started a popular New Urbanist internet list. He also publishes a weblog called Veritas et Venustas. I like his “Name this Town” photo albums. I didn’t have much luck. Here’s a hint, this one is in the [...]
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    Apr
    1

    Another Damn Acronym: RSS
    You see the little orange boxes labled ‘XML’ everywhere. Or maybe there is a cryptic link, such as the one at the bottom of this page, that reads ‘RSS’. This has to be one of the more widely confusing trends to hit the web in a while. It is actually not even clear what RSS [...]
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  • 2
    Apr
    0

    Quote of the Day
    The students at Yale dress down and slouch like those at IIT, but their surroundings engage them differently. While Koolhaas’s buildings make them look out of place–somewhat ridiculous–as if amiable but clueless barbarians inhabited the constructions of a vanished great civilization. At Yale the students and the architecture are at odds. But there is a [...]
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    Apr
    1

    Kool Thing
    Yo. I said yo! Are you ready for a phat new pack of cigarettes? Are you tired of your brand’s played out, wack packaging? Then get wit this, son. Kool be rocking some dope new cigarettes. Tha Kool Mixx Special Edition cigarettes got tight-ass grafix. We talkin’ dudes reprezentin’, DJs on tha 1s & 2s, [...]
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