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    Video – what we don’t do

    by  • December 5, 2008 • Everything Else • 1 Comment

    City of love HD from Leonardo Dalessandri on Vimeo. This is beautiful. Beautiful is expensive. Beautiful is hard. Beautiful needs the eye and the skill and the gear. We don’t do beautiful. At least, not routinely and often not by intention. Beautiful video costs 10 or 100 times what functional video costs. TV has to [...]

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    Flying deck spar for seasteading

    by  • May 20, 2008 • Everything Else • 1 Comment

    The idea is to extend the mast of the Spar above the deck, and then to hang a lightweight deck as a tensile structure, akin to a bridge, off the mast. This is a good idea because tensile structures are cheap compared to compression structures. The cables would probably be fairly light, and number in [...]

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    Fixiing Wikipedia: Wikipedia.com

    by  • April 13, 2008 • Everything Else • 2 Comments

    So here’s the idea. Two wikipedias, sharing the same infrastructure and databases – in fact, the same site as now, with a special case. Wikipedia.org serves the content without ads Wikipedia.com serves it with ads You can use whichever site you prefer, but one of them raises money for Wikipedia. Thoughts?

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