Archive: August 2006

• Architecture / Daniel Libeskind’s sauna in architecture, ixd, new york, urban, visual · Aug 26, 02:25

  A few months ago, the NYT Sunday magazine ran a profile of architect Daniel Libeskind and his Tribeca loft. (Incidentally, check out that link to his website; there’s some pretty hot flouting of web conventions. For example, when you mouse over a link, almost everything on the screen disappears, except a few stray words and [...]

• Radio / The best interview ever in ixd · Aug 17, 18:02

  NPR recently did a great story about John Sawatsky, a former journalist who now teaches interviewing techniques to editorial staff at ESPN. Highlights include Sawatsky’s obvious dislike for "hard-hitting" interviewers like Larry King, Barbara Walters and Mike Wallace: "Mike Wallace enjoys … having the question being more important than the answer." Other resources with [...]

• Bikes / Key ingredients for interactive bike maps of the future in bike, ixd · Aug 16, 14:45

  ByCycle and Bikely both bring bike route mapping to the web, and not a minute too soon. Finding bike routes through cities (especially unfamiliar cities) can be a lonely, scary process of elimination. After much experimentation, the best route often ends up being a patchwork of quiet side streets, alleys, and paths that [...]

• Food / Lakes and cheeseburgers along the PCT in ecology, flickr, outdoors · Aug 13, 03:51

  During my hike on the PCT in 2001, my two favorite pastimes were swimming and eating. When I was walking — which was most of the time — cool swimming holes and sizzling cheeseburgers filled my daydreams. When my hiking partner, Nick, and I talked, it was more often than not about swimming and eating [...]

• Personal history / Pacific Crest Trail five years later in ecology, flickr, outdoors · Aug 13, 01:56

  Five years ago today, I was hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail. I spent the summer of 2001 hiking through California, Oregon, and Washington; on the 12th of August, I was chilling out at Crater Lake, Oregon.
  Crater Lake had been a really major destination for me, not because of its legendary, otherworldly beauty [...]