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Posted in: Uncategorized- ethnographic study about vacuum cleaners :: hyperexperience
an object-centered analysis of how people adapt to new types of things. she gave some families roombas and others regular vacuum cleaners, and she observed significant differences in how people accepted them. - Goodbye to the Mall | varnelis.net
The Economist carries a story on the end of the indoor shopping mall. It reflects on Victor Gruen’s role in the creation of the mall and suggests that malls are dead, offering the rather surprising statistic that there will be not one new indoor mall cons - La dolce vita turns sour as Italy faces up to being old and poor – Times Online
“The problem is that a country like Spain sees immigrants as useful workers, whereas in Italy the headlines tell us they are all criminals who go round robbing and stabbing Italians,†Carlo Bastasin, an economist, said - Dialogue trumps monologue: Click Opera comment counts in 2007
"The subjects that got you commenting: America, Hitler. The subjects that left you mute: Art and design." ha! same here, more or less. readers comment on border issues but ignore art stories - USA / Yemen: Secret Detention in CIA "Black Sites" | Amnesty International
Documents the cases of 3 Yemeni nationals who had "disappeared" in 2003 and who had been kept in isolation in a series of secret detention centres apparently run by US agents. In May 2005 they were flown to Yemen and transferred to Yemeni custody where th - Artdaily.org – Television Delivers People
Exhibition gathers together video works from the 1970s and 80s + more recent examples, which examine the relationship between television and the viewer. The exhibition, organized by curatorial assistant Gary Carrion-Murayari, went on view recently in the - YProductions – Row, Row Your Robot
Roboat is a new research project designed for "protests on or near aqueous points of interest." Perhaps the M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I during the RNC and the UnConvention?
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