January 2011
15 posts
Jan 24th
Jan 24th
In the absence of property rights, parties will...
Observe: And an equilibrium is reached.
Jan 20th
Oh my God: I love watercolors.
“At First Glance,” Michelle Brown (2006).
Jan 19th
There is an urban knitting movement and I like it.
“Territorial Knittings,” Lauren Marsden.
Jan 18th
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The Paradox of Aggregate Demand
From Hayek’s Pure Theory of Capital (1941): But it is alarming to see that after we have once gone through the process of developing a systematic account of those forces which in the long run determine prices and production, we are now called upon to scrap it, in order to replace it by the short-sighted philosophy of the business man raised to the dignity of a science. Are we not...
Jan 12th
“Cache-Cache”, Jun-Yeon Min (2007). Synaptic Stimuli can direct you to some very pretty things.
Jan 12th
Very Cool: "RGB" exhibition
milan-based collective carnovsky (francesco rugi and silvia quintanilla) presents ‘RGB’, an exhibition which showcases a series of wallpapers that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus.  Check out their site to see what happens when you change the light.
Jan 11th
I am in love with a new artist:
“Getting Some Color” Ric Stultz (2011).
Jan 11th
Oh, snap!
From F. H. Knight’s review of Keynes’ General Theory, “Unemployment: and Mr. Keynes’ Revolution in Economic Theory”: The general character of the argument is indicated by the title, which is not “The Theory of Unemployment”, but in contrast, “The Theory of Employment”. In particular, the book is not ostensibly or directly a treatise on the...
Jan 10th
Howard Roark?
Interesting comment I read in the discussion following this article on architecture: I guess the ‘scary scale’ that peturbes some observers is due largely to the top heavy application of a sizable ‘bucket’ amount of water on a residential tower. I would image that, even though this is really a concept, not a final design, such competant students that have the forsesight...
Jan 7th
White House Intelligence Memo Sniffing Out Leakers... →
How could you not leak that shit? Talk about asking for it. An 11-page memo by US intelligence officials detailing the advice has been published by US broadcaster NBC. Correspondents say the Obama administration is trying to prevent more embarrassing disclosures. Agency officials are being urged to find ways to “detect behavioural changes” among those employees who might have...
Jan 7th
Jan 6th
Ok, I thought that I was going to limit myself to... →
I’m going to warn you right now that this photo series is more chilling than you might have initially anticipated. Liability waived.
Jan 6th
Jan 6th
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