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23rd March 2004

Excerpts from The Moonlight Chronicles

“Drawing requires a keen eye and a free hand, to recreate objects and people not as we see them, but as they are. An interview with artist, author, and publisher Dan Price, and a gallery of images from his journals.” Thanks City of Sound

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23rd March 2004

He Measures Oakland’s Beat, and Parks Bloom

“Mr. [Walter] Hood, who likes to call himself an ‘urbanist,’ is a pioneer in a new approach to landscape design in which streets, squares, plazas, playgrounds and parks are fused into a jaunty new urban form, one resonant of a site’s past.”

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23rd March 2004

Road Map of the Human Body

Very neat illustration of the human body in the style of a road map. Arteries and veins are major routes, the heart is a city, etc…

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23rd March 2004

Copyfight: The politics of IP

“Here we’ll explore the nexus of legal rulings, Capitol Hill policy-making, technical standards development and technological innovation that creates ó and will recreate ó†the networked world as we know it. Among the topics we’ll touch on: intellectual property conflicts, technical architecture and innovation, the evolution of copyright, private vs. public interests in Net policy-making, lobbying and the law, and more.”

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