Matthew Fuller and Usman Haque, with illustrations by David Cuesta: This document proposes that another lesson can be learned for architecture from computing: the way in which software is made. Here, we want to concentrate on the current most significant mode of software development—Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)—steering clear of ubicomp fantasies that [...]
Information architecture: Cal PSC dox online
Jul 8, ’08
12:07 AM
Citing the Veeck decision (7 June ’02), Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.Org have posted the building, fire, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical Public Safety Codes for the state of California. In itself, this may excite a handful of people, but the following statement makes its importance clear: The courts have long held that the law is public [...]
Not so stealthy
Jun 10, ’08
8:56 AM
When (and why) did the US Air Force become so open? Video footage of a B-2 (a/k/a “stealth bomber”) crash in Guam on 23 Feb 2008. Bombastic propaganda video (Universal Newsreel 20-85, 23 Oct 1947, from the National Archives) for a “maiden” flight of the Northrop B-35, which, like the B-2, had a 172′ wingspan [...]