Friday, November 5, 2010

Living in Tunnels, etc.

The tunnel people of Las Vegas

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1326187/Las-Vegas-tunnel-people-How-1-000-people-live-shimmering-strip.html
Over the years lots of people have taken to living in urban tunnels.
Sometimes people turn their home into a labyrinth of tunnels.
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People have used tunnels for various reasons for a very long time.


Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Digital Questions & Possibilities

http://www.kurzweilai.net/your-future-smartphone-and-tablet-will-have-48-cores-intel

datalinks.blogspot.com/2010/09/types-of-computers-portable-devices.html
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http://www.asklaptopfreak.com/laptop-notebook-help/2006/07/29/connect-laptop-to-tv-via-s-video-port

The Function key between life & machines

http://www.kurzweilai.net & http://www.kurzweilai.net/blog

Types of Computers & Portable Devices

Computer_types, categories and their creators.
ARPANET & History_of_the Internet
From the World_Brain concept to the_World_Wide_Web
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John von Neumann
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/von_Neumann.html
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/VonNeumann.html
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/vonneumann.html
http://hans.wyrdweb.eu/about-hole-time-crazy-experiments-nikola-tesla-and-john-von-neumann-created-many-legends-and-movies/
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Alan Turing
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/#Unc
http://www.computer50.org/mark1/turing.html#turingmachine
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Vannevar_Bush
http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/bush.html
Memex: As_We_May_Think
http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/Secondary/Bushframe.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/as-we-may-think/3881/
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/Secondary.html
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http://biorob.epfl.ch/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Alt-Delete
The_beginnings_of_the_personal_computer_industry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_1

The Pocket_PC & Phone

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Urban Tech Links...

Urban Tech Links is about what makes (or allows) some cities to be BIG or remain small, or somewhere in between. Perhaps almost every city or town will have its peculiarities, myths or urban_legends & even some synchronicity.

UTL ranges from referencing old & new tech involving urban things, statistics & legends & sci-fi stories that are connected to the fusion of buildings, inventions & technology in general. An integral part of this blog network is exploring architecture & symbolism , coincidence  and synchronicity. Some of the coolest sites are, http://ancientx.com , www.history.com/shows/ancient-aliens , www.cyberpunkreview.com , www.technovelgy.com , www.world-mysteries.com , www.wired.com , http://io9.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frankenheimer#Film , 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Favreau#Filmography

The Face of Serendipity
"The name stems either from Serendip, an old name for Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), or from Arabic Sarandib, or from Skt. Simhaladvipa which literally translates to "Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity#Etymology,
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=serendipity&searchmode=none

The_Roots & Interpretation_of_Coincidence

The Meaning of Synchronicity
Example:
Larry_Page helped to create a process to link & track each webpage called the PageRank.



This is a basic blog about civilization and urban technology, Etc.

The Terminal Connection

http://www.hudsoncity.net/tubesenglish/hudsonterminalshowingundergroundsection-640.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40045986@N00/3093305042/in/set-72157610917034284/

Monday, July 19, 2010

The Twin Towers of the Royal Liver Building: 1,911

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/The_Royal_Liver_Buildings_-_geograph.org.uk_-_526323.jpg RLB https://rlb360.com/history , 
So, John Lennon started a band in a city where a big building is topped with twin towers. Eventually, he moves to another city that becomes famous for its giant twin towers.
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Driving on the waterfront road eventually reveals the Liver Building complex with its twin towers.
A similar effect was created with much taller twin towers in NYC.
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Before the Liver Building, architect Walter_Aubrey_Thomas had designed the 11 story Tower Buildings. Most accounts of the day that he died state that had occurred on September 13. However, there is one web site that makes a distinction between the 11th & the 13th.
So far, this flickr site seems to be the only place on the Web that states, Walter A Thomas died on September 11, 1934.
It was his obituary that was published on the 13th of September.
The Liver Building Ice Sculpture Liverpool event took place at Liverpool One on 11th September 2009.
The Liverpool Urban Legend of Cease to Exist.
Legend has it that "If the Liver Birds were to fly away Liverpool would cease to exist"
Manson writes Cease to Exist & became an intense Beatles fan in the 1960s.
The Beatles, The Beach Boys & Charles Manson share a strong synchronicity with the #911, among other things.
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You can find a lot of things connected to the #911, it just depends upon how curious people are with coincidence & synchronicity.
"The first public beta of Windows Live Search was unveiled on March 8, 2006, with the final release on September 11, 2006..."
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