After using PCs for my entire life I’m switching to a Mac. My black 13-inch MacBook should come in about a week. Looks like I’ll even be able to transfer my iTunes library, play counts and all. I got a free iPod Nano through their back-to-school deal on top of their student discount. Aside from […]
links for 2006-07-05
National Coalition for History Action Alert – NARA Budget Needs History group urges funding for the National Archives.
links for 2006-07-04
Web Site Starts From a Memo, Gains Millions of Readers Washington Post on the history of their own website. “In Search of Peace For an Old Resting Place” African American burial ground is now a park in Adams Morgan. W. Bus. Journal: “SW waterfront gets in touch with its Inner Harbor” Developers compete with grandiose […]
D.C. Gentrification and Section 8 Subsidized Housing
This post is second in a series on gentrification in the District of Columbia. Part 1 – D.C. Gentrification and Section 8 Subsidized Housing Part 2 – ‘Gentrification’: The Birth of a Word in D.C. Part 3 – Metro Growth and ‘Gentrification’ Use Part 4 – Neighborhood Revitalization and Displacement I dislike the term “gentrification” […]
Student Housing in Ann Arbor
My friend Dale has just posted a rough introduction to his urban planning thesis to his blog. He is making an ambitious argument — perhaps too ambitious — but I’m interested to see what he uncovers in the process of investigating it. In this thesis, I argue that students individually and collectively were agents of […]
Recent Cameraphone Photos
Nam June Paik’s “Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum The courtyard of the Old Patent Building is a forest of scaffolding. The Futureheads playing the 9:30 Club. Sign posted to Shiloh-owned vacant building.
The Panopticon Cometh
Two examples of the official use of photos caught my eye recently: The Capital Wireless Integrated Network (or CapWIN) is a effort to “develop an interoperable first responder data communication and information sharing network” between Maryland, Virginia, and DC. The system claims 1,754 users from 47 agencies in the region, and provides secure one-to-one and […]