An early reference book on architecture. cool.

Quoted: An English translation of Book 1 of the de Architectura by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, linked to the Latin text. (Roman architecture)

Get your doodles right here! What'll ya bid?

Quoted: Neurofibromatosis (NF) is a genetic disorder that can affect any family. Half the children born with NF have no family history of neurofibromatosis. 100,000 people in the USA have NF. There is still no cure.

Interesting interview, if you like architecture.

Quoted: New urbanism is in the process of crumbling under its own weight. It's being adopted by mass culture. Now we have home builders in suburbia doing New Urbanism. We don’t even talk about it around our shop. We prefer to do old urbanism.

Dianne came across this.

Quoted: Sea Breeze Journal of Contemporary Liberian Writings is a quarterly peer-review electronic journal devoted to publishing creative non-fiction, original short fiction narratives, poetry, interviews, book reviews, and social and political commentary arising out of Liberian life

Quoted: Landry suggests that there is an art to city making which is about treating the city as a living work of art.

photorealism to the extreme

Why I'm happy to consider myself a postmodernist. I spent hours editing this speech, leaving out all the stuff about Perl, since I think the geekishness put off lots of other people who might be interested in this take on postmodernism. I emailed Mr Wall to see if I could submit it for publication a few places I thought might be interested, but he never responded. bummer.

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