Jane Jacobs has died. A fuller obit from me will come as soon as I get the time. (via Frances)
Month / April 2006
Well, That and a Sizable Paycheck, One Presumes
This guy (NSFW) claims he can help you take better dirty pictures. Among some of his tips: “Seem complicated? Not at all. You just have to concentrate on a few things… talk to her, remind her to look at the camera, tell her often that she looks GREAT, (yes, that old cliché of a photographer saying. ‘yes, yes, baby… great, great, show it to me…beautiful’, works!. Say it!). Keep moving side to side, closer and closer…That’s it!'” (via D)
And All This Time I Was Thinking That Export Processing Zones Were the Chief Culprit
IHT: “Some 6,500 languages are spoken in the world today. And according to the 2000 census, you can hear at least 92 of them on the streets of New York. You can probably hear more; the census lumps some of them together simply as ‘other.’ But by the end of the century, linguists predict, half of the world’s languages will be dead, victims of globalization. English is the major culprit, slowly extinguishing the other tongues that lie in its path.”
Apple to Profit From Podcasters
So let me get this straight? I labor long and hard over a podcast, and Apple throws ads into it, debases what I’m trying to do and I don’t get to collect any kind of revenue? What an utterly terrible idea.
Call Us Pragmatic But Isn’t an Escort Service a Better Deal?
New York Times: “For fees that range from a few hundred dollars for a two-day class to a few thousand for adventures that can be four weeks long, those willing can pay to be pursued by make-believe assailants, survive hypothetical plane crashes and car accidents, and hunt down guerrillas.”