February 2011
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A tale of transoceanic communications cables, by... →
“Shortly after touching down in Tokyo, we were standing in KDD’s landing station in Ninomiya, Japan. I’ll describe it to you.
A surprising amount of space in the station is devoted to electrical gear. The station must not lose power, so there are two separate, redundant emergency generators. There is also likely to be a transformer to supply power to the cable system. We think of optical...
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Microaggressions →
This blog seeks to provide a visual representation of the everyday of “microaggressions.” Each event, observation and experience posted is not necessarily particularly striking in and of themselves. Often, they are never meant to hurt - acts done with little conscious awareness of their meanings and effects. Instead, their slow accumulation during a childhood and over a lifetime is in part what...
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The City is a Battlesuit →
“A city can’t be too small. Size guarantees anonymity-if you make an embarrassing mistake in a large city, and it’s not on the cover of the Post, you can probably try again. The generous attitude towards failure that big cities afford is invaluable-it’s how things get created. In a small town everyone knows about your failures, so you are more careful about what you might attempt.”
—David Byrne
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Escena →
“La industria, de alguna manera, intenta prediseñar la escena, el mapa antes del territorio. Quizá la mejor forma de decirlo es que una escena se crea en los bares y una industria se crea en los despachos.”
La pesadilla de los City Tours →
El city tour es una maquinaria presta a confirmar prejuicios: los del turista que espera encontrar en París una ciudad romántica -y no otra cosa-, en Roma una ciudad histórica -y no otra cosa- y en Buenos Aires la ciudad más europea de Latinoamérica -y no otra cosa. Y aunque París no sea tan romántica y a Buenos Aires le quede poco de europea, el city tour hará sus mejores esfuerzos (mentir...
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