akallander.com Archives: Asking the right questions
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30 July 2008
How to See by George Nelson
“It is very revealing that our entire social conditioning pressures us into looking for the exchange values of anything we acquire, whether property or knowledge. Never has anyone asked me if seeing makes my life richer, or more entertaining. It has to be worth something.”
- George Nelson (wikipedia) or GeorgeNelson.org
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13 March 2008
quietly doing the right thing
I found these ACME (what else could you call them?) Workhorse bags described on one of my favorite sites, Kevin Kelly’s “Cool Tools.”
They come in their own pouch (attached so you can stuff them back in & stuff that into your car or handbag/man-purse). They hold 25lbs and the handles tie & untie easily so […]
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22 October 2007
two good issues…
… of magazines that I typically don’t buy. Well, I typically don’t buy any magazines (unless they’re in French so I can’t read them). However…
Good Magazine: the Nov/Dec issue includes titles like “Sustainable Design That Doesn’t Suck.” The fashion in SF for “green design”–a) promoting it as “green” regardless of whether it’s appropriate for […]
