In the storytelling tradition of Studs Terkel and the photographic spirit of Mike Disfarmer, The Oxford Project tells the extraordinary true tale of a seemingly ordinary Midwestern town through the pictures and words of its residents. Equal parts art, American history, cultural anthropology, and human narrative—The Oxford Project is at once personal and universal, surprising and predictable, simple and profound.
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you said: “Especially given the by-now-clichéd recognition that we’ve decisively become an urban species”
It is indeed very interesting to think about urban systems design given there was a major move toward cities. That said I have the feeling that this move comes with, at least, three issues:
1. access to the “thought” urban environment,
2. the space left where 50% of the population is still living,
3. the space of this growth
There are many areas in the world where the growth of the cities is made by people without access or a limited access to the thought urban environment. Poor people living in slums or just in a space which is not part of the work of urban planner per say. In a recent exhibition about slums I went, it was very interesting to see that the organic structure of the slums was making possible for the individuals to create a rich and meaningful space, driving sometimes to less criminality than more traditional areas of the city. The slum is a forced collective creative space for survival.
The rest of the population, the 50% living in deserted areas are the forgotten of this story. It’s indeed more “fun”, interesting for researchers, sociologists to observe and think about the density in urban space (richness of interactions) more than the low level of activities in the “countryside”. Though there are equal challenges there in terms of design and space organization, access to services, etc.
Finally, is it really cities which are growing? What we call urban space often relates to the city center, but I have the feeling that the growth is happening in the in-between space (suburbs), which is again a complete disaster in terms of design, even more so in rich countries. The private space is becoming a space of non-creativity, dead areas of non activities. Someone, who wants to start a small business in between two buildings on the grass of a random suburb of a rich city, will not last for very long. Complete different dynamic than the slum where unregulated areas give the opportunity of creative solutions for surviving or living.
A couple of good things to remember here: #1 resolving 1 bottleneck can open another bottleneck that is much worse. #2 is to understand that not all API’s are created equal. Additionally the configuration and setup that works well on one system may not work well on another. Because of this people often leave lots of performance on the table. Don’t just trust that your current API or config is optimal, test and make sure it fits your application.
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gigantismeEven more likely, they were gawking at a very, very large scoreboard — the 160-foot-long, 1.2 million pound, Mitsubishi Diamond Vision true HD display, that is the centerpiece of Cowboys Stadium. This is a spectacular object, this scoreboard. It cost, by itself, twice as much to build as the previous Cowboys Stadium. It is maintained via a ten-level internal scaffolding system and its use requires the services of a full-time, highly trained operations team. Its display capacity is equal to 4,920 52-inch flat panel televisions, and it is illuminated by 30 million pulsing light bulbs. In short, it makes your typical Jumbotron look like a 13-inch TV/VCR.
The way to find needles in the immense haystack of Amazon.com is through constrained search. Amazon's search function, like most others, claims to use a logical AND operator on keywords. That is search results for "Amazon Warriors," for example, should contain both "Amazon" AND "Warriors." In fact, you will find that, all things being equal -- "Amazon" AND "Warriors" results will appear higher than "Amazon" OR "Warriors" results. You need to "drill down" through the thousands of Amazon Categories to find the results that meet your criteria. I could go on and on (there really are thousands of categories) but I think this small sample will illustrate how different your results can be for a single search term
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Coverflow in Javascript !!Strictly proof of concept!! * Tested in Firefox 3, Opera 9.5 and Safari 3 * Only works for images of equal width and height (250px x 250px in this example) * Utilizes scroll wheel and left/right keys * You can have custom labels and onclick events for center image * I have tested it with other javascript libraries like jQuery, MooTools, Dojo and Prototype
Coverflow in Javascript !!Strictly proof of concept!! * Tested in Firefox 3, Opera 9.5 and Safari 3 * Only works for images of equal width and height (250px x 250px in this example) * Utilizes scroll wheel and left/right keys * You can have custom labels and onclick events for center image * I have tested it with other javascript libraries like jQuery, MooTools, Dojo and Prototype
another (pixel) animation lesson by ben2theedge << there are two rules you MUST remember when animating: 1: Bodies in motion tend to stay in motion, and bodies at rest tend to stay at rest 2: Every action causes an equal and opposite reaction For almost any animation this is all the physics knowledge you need. You can make an animation more or less "stylized" by exaggerating or downplaying these laws. >>
Of course, this is causing some people to ask whether it was a good idea; all other things being equal, it’s better to maintain compatibility than to break it, and if the break doesn’t seem to offer anything really major or impressive over the previous compatible version, then it’s natural to ask what, exactly, made this necessary. Jens Afke has rather notably posted some thoughts along those lines, and this post is an attempt to respond and explain, as clearly as I can, why I think Python 3.0 is and will be a good thing even though it’ll create a staggering amount of work for me, my co-workers and my friends and colleagues (since I deal with two large Python 2.x codebases on a daily basis, the migration is not going to be simple or short for me).
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We wrote a script to "equalize" the heights of boxes within the same container and create a tidy grid — with little overhead. Creating the visual effect of equal-height columns or content boxes has been a challenge ever since we abandoned table-based layouts. When developing complex web applications or site designs we've found that it often makes the most sense from a usability and performance standpoint to use a simple JavaScript workaround: our equalHeights() function determines the heights of all sibling elements in a container, and then sets each element's minimum height to that of the tallest element. When JavaScript is disabled, the boxes or columns appear with varying heights, but the content remains legible and the page is still completely usable.
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OpenDisc is a high quality collection of open source software (OSS) for the Microsoft Windows operating system. The two main goals of the project are: * To provide a free alternative to costly software, with equal or often better quality equivalents to proprietary, shareware or freeware software for Microsoft Windows. * To educate users of Linux as an operating system for home, business and educational use. The majority of programs featured on OpenDisc are also available on Linux.
A dry ounce is equal to 28.3495231 grams A fluid ounce is equal to 29.5735297 milliliters
Il suffit juste de rentrer votre nom d'utilisateur Flickr et choisir de quelle manière vous voulez que vos photos apparaissent equal smile En voici un exemple:
If the distance between you and me = the distance from me to utopia, and distance between me to the abyss = the distance bwteen you and the abyss, then the distances between me and you and utopia and the abyss are all equal. www.itwasaloveaffair.com All rights reserved Lily Lin 2008
This post on Granular Social Networks has been years in the making and is a follow-up to one I previously made in January 2005 on Granular Social Networks as a concept I had been presenting and talking about for quite some time at that point. In the past few years it has floated in and out of my presentations, but is quite often mentioned when the problems of much of the current social networking ideology comes up. Most of the social networking tools and services assume we are broadline friends with people we connect to, even when we are just "contacts" or other less than "friend" labels. The interest we have in others (and others in us) is rarely 100 percent and even rarer is that this 100 percent interest and appreciation is equal in both directions (I have yet to run across this in any pairing of people, but I am open to the option that it exists somewhere).
A 14-year-old girl with a scythe cutting circles around a tractor equipped with a mowing machine! Far-fetched? Today - perhaps. Tomorrow - the use of simple hand tools will make increasing sense in direct proportion to the rising costs, economic and otherwise, of operating oil-dependent machinery. Long live the power of human bodies! There is no trick photography in this video; it is a genuine documentary of the efficiency of this ecological tool, the scythe. Not all scythes are created equal, however, and many viewers may wonder how the heavy old scythe hanging in the shed could be used like the one in this video. For more information, please visit http://scytheconnection.com
Double Digit Math Addition : This program will make a new double digit worksheet (with no carrying or regrouping) each time you enter the page. Type in your answers and the computer will mark your work when you press the check work button. Learn How to Carry: Practice carrying numbers as you add. This games will come with audio that instructs you on your mistakes. Timed Math Drills Practice carrying numbers How many questions can you do in 60 seconds. Choose the difficulty of the questions and have your work marked by a computer. Add Them UP: Practise adding three numbers at once in this fun interactive game. Takes awhile to load on slow lines but well worth waiting! Equal Math Sentence: Practise adding single digits and visually see how to regroup the numbers. Visual Double Digit Adding and Subtracting: Practise adding and subtracting double digits and visually see how to regroup the numbers. Addition Drills Game: Practise adding and subtracting with math drills. Your choose the number range. The computer will mark your work with cool sound effects. Math Worksheet Generator: Make your own math addition worksheets. Teachers, this program will make the sheets with the numbers you want. Single to Triple Digit Adding: Try some adding drills with audio comments to cue you on mistakes. Visual Simple Fractions Adding and Subtracting: Try some adding and subtracting simple fractions with visual pictures to help you understand. Addition Game: Try making 3 numbers add vertically and horizontally. Good problem solving. Pick the card: Pick the right card that equals the adding question. Questions cover addition of numbers 1 to 20. Addition and Subtraction Game: This game will give you an addition or subtraction questions and mark your work, even talk to you. Uses the range of 1-20. Doubles Adding Game: A great way to memorize addition facts is to do it with doubles such as 1 + 1, 2 + 2 etc. Turn the cards in this fun game to match the math sentence with the answer. eg 3 +3 matches 6 . Lots of cool animations! Minute Math Game: Can you do these kids math worksheets in a minute? This program gives lots of math worksheets of addition, subtraction, multiplication or division math worksheets and marks all your work. A great tool for teachers. This program will mark work as either right or wrong but unfortunately it sometimes makes errors. Great for giving kids worksheets online to do with a specific number range.