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"SNOW IS EXPECTED TO OVERSPREAD THE REGION FROM STARTING LATE TUESDAY EVENING. THE SNOW MAY BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES ON WEDNESDAY… BEFORE SLOWLY TAPERING OFF WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE POTENTIAL FOR 6 TO 12 INCHES OF SNOW EXISTS. AT THIS TIME THE HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN AREA AND LONG ISLAND."
The red bars are the accelerating rate of job loss during President Bush’s last year in office; the blue bars are the decelerating rate of job loss during President Obama’s first year of office. (via Was This On Slog Yesterday? | Slog | The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper)
Cynfyfyrwyr
This is a word in Welsh.
“As an industry, we need to understand that not wanting root access doesn’t make you stupid. It simply means you do not want root access. Failing to comprehend this is not only a failure of empathy, but a failure of service.”
Exciting news, everyone! Today in my dreadful morning class I came up with a great idea, for thesis.
It sort of relates to my original idea, but I was never sold on the urban housing angle in that. Instead, I want to design the opposite of monuments. That is, instead of things that are of the past, things that are for the future.
A simple example: imagine an aqueduct built in some cold frozen part of Canada. It doesn’t work right now. But in X-hundred years, given predicted global climate change, water will flow, and the aqueduct can be put to use by future generations.
The idea is that things may change/deteriorate such that future generations do not have the capacity to construct such a thing, but would benefit from clean water. So we build them now, knowing they’ll be needed in the future.
The most apt precedent I can think of is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Related, methods of disposing of nuclear waste in “This is Not a Place of Honor,” The Long Now, ruin value theory, The World Without Us, and how Roman infrastructure was used during the Dark Ages.
That is actually awesome. Run with it.
