links for 2009-03-16

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  • Park Interactives, 2000
  • "But here's the most important part. In the end, the viewer is likely to leave this film having been sensitized to what is perhaps its strongest invocation (and something I am forever yelling at my design students about): the notion of intention. Sure, you learn about the designers' dreams and desires, their motivations and peculiarities. But at the end of the day, this film is a testament to how damn intentional all of these people are."
    (tags: design)
  • "Doiron spent nine months weighing and recording each vegetable he pulled from his 1,600-square-foot garden outside Portland, Maine. After counting the final winter leaves of Belgian endive, he found he had saved about $2,150 by growing produce for his family of five instead of buying it.

    Adriana Martinez, an accountant who reduced her grocery bill to $40 a week by gardening, said there's peace of mind in knowing where her food comes from. And she said the effort has fostered a sense of community through a neighborhood veggie co-op.

    "We're helping to feed each other and what better time than now?" Martinez said."





  • "Toronto is a city of towers. There are over 1,000 residential apartment towers found all across Toronto. Between the 1950s and the 1980s, concrete apartment towers were the most popular building type. Thousands of units were mixed in with single-family homes, industry, shopping, and vast open spaces.

    Today, these concrete slab towers are aging and inefficient, while the open spaces that surround them are underused and poorly maintained. Mayor's Tower Renewal will combine green technology with neighborhood revitalization to make stronger, greener communities across the city."





  • "However the “place of spaces” was not, as some have argued, superseded by the space of flows. Along with the “smoothness” and the placelessness of the shopping mall, the airport and multiplex, new localities were produced both as sites for work and imagination. The urban became the site for new disruptions and ruses by those rendered placeless in the Smooth City. New struggles and solidarities emerged, once again lacking the mythic quality of the old movements, but adapting, innovating and gaining knowledge through the practice of urban life. Within the new constellation of ruin and danger of the contemporary city, strategies of living, as one of the essays in this volume suggest, often tend to be physiognomic, where detective-like strategies of masking and unmasking help negotiate the urban crowd. "




  • "EnergyIP was designed from the ground up to support all aspects of smart meter network implementation and ongoing operation for the mass market as well as C&I. EnergyIP helps turn utilities into the real-time knowledge-driven enterprises they need to be to handle increasing political, social, and economic demands of a more conscious customer and regulator. EnergyIP captures the complex relationships among assets, premises, customer accounts, users, applications, and services that must be managed in any successful smart meter communications network. Incorporating automated business processes and workflows, EnergyIP maintains these relationships throughout smart meter network implementations and the routine changes in customers, meters, and services."




  • "As a participant walks through the city, wireless networks are sensed by the PDA. Each time a new network is encountered, a new vertical bar is drawn. As each new network is encountered, its marker moves along the color spectrum. The first network is always red and on the left hand side, the last one is always purple and on the right side, and networks along the way get new colors as they come within range. The height of each bar represents the combined strength of the wireless networks currently in range."


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