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"Based on extensive data collection and the close study of artefacts from museum collections and archives, the book examines the relationship between artefacts, everyday behaviour, and experience. The concept of 'affordances'—features of an artefact that make possible, and incline users towards, particular uses for functional artefacts—is an important one for the approach taken. This concept is carefully evaluated by considering affordances in relation to other sources of evidence, such as use—wear, archaeological context, the end—products resulting from artefact use, and experimental reconstruction. Artefact types explored in the case studies include locks and keys, pens, shears, glass vessels, dice, boxes, and finger-rings, using material mainly drawn from the north-western Roman provinces, with some material also from Roman Egypt.
"The book then considers how we can use artefacts to understand particular aspects of Roman behaviour and experience, including discrepant experiences according to factors such as age, social position, and left- or right-handedness, which are fostered through artefact design. The relationship between production and users of artefacts is also explored, investigating what particular production methods make possible in terms of user experience, and also examining production constraints that have unintended consequences for users.
"The book examines topics such as the perceived agency of objects, differences in social practice across the provinces, cultural change and development in daily practice, and the persistence of tradition and social convention. It shows that design intentions, everyday habits of use, and the constraints of production processes each contribute to the reproduction and transformation of material culture."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How the world’s largest retailer is redefining architecture by organizing flows of merchandise and information across space and time
"Jesse LeCavalier analyzes Walmart’s stores, distribution centers, databases, and inventory practices to make sense of its spatial and architectural ramifications. A major new contribution to architectural history and theory, The Rule of Logistics helps us understand how retailing today is changing our bodies, brains, buildings, and cities."
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Let me start by saying that beautiful websites come in all sizes and page weights. I love big websites packed with images. I love high-resolution video. I love sprawling Javascript experiments or well-designed web apps.
"This talk isn't about any of those. It's about mostly-text sites that, for unfathomable reasons, are growing bigger with every passing year.
"While I'll be using examples to keep the talk from getting too abstract, I’m not here to shame anyone, except some companies (Medium) that should know better and are intentionally breaking the web."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Haute has blurred with homey cuisine in the last few decades, but how did this radical change happen, and what does it say about current attitudes toward taste? Here with the answers is food writer Alison Pearlman. In Smart Casual: The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style in America, Pearlman investigates what she identifies as the increasing informality in the design of contemporary American restaurants."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Visualization Analysis and Design provides a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about visualization in terms of principles and design choices. The book features a unified approach encompassing information visualization techniques for abstract data, scientific visualization techniques for spatial data, and visual analytics techniques for interweaving data transformation and analysis with interactive visual exploration. It emphasizes the careful validation of effectiveness and the consideration of function before form.
"The book breaks down visualization design according to three questions: what data users need to see, why users need to carry out their tasks, and how the visual representations proposed can be constructed and manipulated. It walks readers through the use of space and color to visually encode data in a view, the trade-offs between changing a single view and using multiple linked views, and the ways to reduce the amount of data shown in each view. The book concludes with six case studies analyzed in detail with the full framework.
"The book is suitable for a broad set of readers, from beginners to more experienced visualization designers. It does not assume any previous experience in programming, mathematics, human–computer interaction, or graphic design and can be used in an introductory visualization course at the graduate or undergraduate level."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dunno how big the changes are; the first edition was awesome:
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<item rdf:about="http://sdrtraveller.com/products/d3-traveller">
    <title>D3 Traveller Duffel – SDR Traveller</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-27T19:12:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sdrtraveller.com/products/d3-traveller</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Explanation for tags: There are very, very few people who need a $1000 duffel made from a fabric "four times stronger than kevlar".  I am glad such things exist for them.  (In fact I actually know someone who could have used it in a former profession.)  But those people would not need moody art photos of the bag amidst gorgeous desolation to sell them on it.]]></description>
<dc:subject>luggage conspicuous_consumption conspicuous_to_the_cognoscenti_anyway functionalism_as_a_fetishism design via:warrenellis</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e0131778f97b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:conspicuous_to_the_cognoscenti_anyway"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:functionalism_as_a_fetishism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:design"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20131204.php">
    <title>A Traditional City Primer</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-28T19:31:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20131204.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Look, the eye-candy is great, but let's get real.  There were very powerful drives towards very large cities, in the form of economies of scale in production and infrastructure, and economies of agglomeration.  At the same time, living in a city of great size (say > 500k, a huge metropolis by pre-modern standards) without transit sucks.  Renaissance Florence --- a "traditional city" --- was counted very large at ~100k, or even ~70k, during its peak of prominence.  This is smaller than a modern college town like Ann Arbor or Madison, and comparable to a resort town like Santa Fe.  Show me this scaling up to even half a million and we'll talk.]]></description>
<dc:subject>cities urbanism design architecture via:arsyed have_read nostalgia via:arthegall</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:414298b353ce/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:design"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:nostalgia"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://mitpress.mit.edu/demofun">
    <title>Making Democracy Fun | The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-23T14:23:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mitpress.mit.edu/demofun</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive presentations, alternatingly alarmist or complacent, for or against, accompanied by constant heckling, often with no clear outcome or decision. Is this the best democracy can offer? In Making Democracy Fun, Josh Lerner offers a novel solution for the sad state of our deliberative democracy: the power of good game design. What if public meetings featured competition and collaboration (such as team challenges), clear rules (presented and modeled in multiple ways), measurable progress (such as scores and levels), and engaging sounds and visuals? These game mechanics would make meetings more effective and more enjoyable—even fun.
"Lerner reports that institutions as diverse as the United Nations, the U.S. Army, and grassroots community groups are already using games and game-like processes to encourage participation. Drawing on more than a decade of practical experience and extensive research, he explains how games have been integrated into a variety of public programs in North and South America. He offers rich stories of game techniques in action, in children’s councils, social service programs, and participatory budgeting and planning. With these real-world examples in mind, Lerner describes five kinds of games and twenty-six game mechanics that are especially relevant for democracy. He finds that when governments and organizations use games and design their programs to be more like games, public participation becomes more attractive, effective, and transparent. Game design can make democracy fun—and make it work."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://overview.ap.org/blog/2014/01/algorithms-are-not-enough-lessons-bringing-computer-science-to-journalism/">
    <title>The Overview Project » Algorithms are not enough: lessons bringing computer science to journalism</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-04T16:15:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://overview.ap.org/blog/2014/01/algorithms-are-not-enough-lessons-bringing-computer-science-to-journalism/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[(Makes loud and prolonged noises of approval)
(Looks guiltily at own practices)]]></description>
<dc:subject>data_analysis text_mining journalism programming design data_mining visual_display_of_quantitative_information to_teach:data-mining to_teach:statcomp to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:statcomp"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300176445">
    <title>Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists and Engineers - Frankel, Felice C.; DePace, Angela H. - Yale University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-13T03:01:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300176445</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Any scientist or engineer who communicates research results will immediately recognize this practical handbook as an indispensable tool. The guide sets out clear strategies and offers abundant examples to assist researchers—even those with no previous design training—with creating effective visual graphics for use in multiple contexts, including journal submissions, grant proposals, conference posters, or presentations.
"Visual communicator Felice Frankel and systems biologist Angela DePace, along with experts in various fields, demonstrate how small changes can vastly improve the success of a graphic image. They dissect individual graphics, show why some work while others don't, and suggest specific improvements. The book includes analyses of graphics that have appeared in such journals as Science, Nature, Annual Reviews, Cell, PNAS, and the New England Journal of Medicine, as well as an insightful personal conversation with designer Stefan Sagmeister and narratives by prominent researchers and animators."]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted visual_display_of_quantitative_information art design frankel.felice</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:39f0bcc53c3f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://thirtytwomag.com/2012/06/the-fall-of-thecreative-class/">
    <title>The Fall of the Creative Class</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-29T12:11:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thirtytwomag.com/2012/06/the-fall-of-thecreative-class/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>creative_class geography economics cities urbanism design economic_policy florida.richard madison_wisconsin via:tsuomela to_teach:undergrad-ADA track_down_references</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ef28ea2764ed/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:track_down_references"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://craigmod.com/journal/hack_the_cover/">
    <title>Hack the Cover — by Craig Mod</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-21T18:14:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://craigmod.com/journal/hack_the_cover/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books design via:bookslut</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8a0d157b0df6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:design"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/05/how-do-networks-invent/">
    <title>How Do Networks Invent? | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-30T12:31:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/05/how-do-networks-invent/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The thing that makes this 1968 document hopeful, despite its cynicism, is that at least it’s the dawn of another approach — the approach that led us to this dire situation nowadays, to be specific. This suggests that, somewhere we haven’t noticed yet, there’s a homeomorphic version of this essay — not “how committees invent” but “how networks invent,” and what’s wrong with that, and why things could be very different. I wonder where that essay is."]]></description>
<dc:subject>track_down_references design bureaucracy re:democratic_cognition</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fe872ec08360/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bureaucracy"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/spacesuit-interview-with-nicholas-de.html">
    <title>BLDGBLOG: Spacesuit: An Interview with Nicholas de Monchaux</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-10T13:28:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/spacesuit-interview-with-nicholas-de.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This may well be the quintessence of BLDGBLOG.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>architecture design space_exploration apollo_project history_of_technology history_of_art fashion bldgblog urban_planning cybernetics general_systems_theory nasa clothing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b25d88c0aa1d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:space_exploration"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:history_of_technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:history_of_art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:fashion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bldgblog"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:urban_planning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:cybernetics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:general_systems_theory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:nasa"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:clothing"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=10779">
    <title>Warren Ellis » Travelling, African Dictator Style</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-06T18:55:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=10779</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["And that’s one of the problems with crazy sci-fi design in the real world: it never belongs to the people you want it to belong to, and it carries a completely different and sinister statement about who owns the future.  Versace doing SPACE:1999 set design. It should have been Freeman Dyson’s ride."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky design science_fiction ellis.warren</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c95c3d19efca/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:ellis.warren"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://dowlingduncan.com/dowling-duncan-redesign-us-bank-notes/">
    <title>Dowling | Duncan – Dowling Duncan redesign the US bank notes</title>
    <dc:date>2010-08-30T15:48:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dowlingduncan.com/dowling-duncan-redesign-us-bank-notes/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cute, but I still think Washington should be on the $1.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>design funny something_about_america via:phnk</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4cf9b092bfd7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.slideshare.net/blackbeltjones/the-demonhaunted-world">
    <title>The Demon-Haunted World, or, the past and future of practical city magic</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-19T14:54:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slideshare.net/blackbeltjones/the-demonhaunted-world</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>cities urbanism infrastructure networked_life futurology architecture design magic jones.matt</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:dcce166ea18d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://unhappyhipsters.com/post/586882480/the-armchairs-had-gathered-to-warn-her-but-alas">
    <title>The armchairs had gathered to warn her. But alas,...</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-10T15:07:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://unhappyhipsters.com/post/586882480/the-armchairs-had-gathered-to-warn-her-but-alas</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The armchairs had gathered to warn her. But alas, the ferns were already in formation."  (I'm sorry, but that room looks awesome.)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious photos design architecture unhappy_hipsters</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4e056cc1eac7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.blanka.co.uk/Art/Exergian/Iconic_TV">
    <title>Blanka || Iconic TV</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-01T22:43:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.blanka.co.uk/Art/Exergian/Iconic_TV</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Covers of recent popular TV shows, if they were old Pelican paperbacks.  Many of them are very nice.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny popular_culture design via:unfogged</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9b8a9d170458/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2010/02/hallucinatory-architecture-of-future.html">
    <title>Dark Roasted Blend: Hallucinatory Architecture of the Future</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-24T16:46:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2010/02/hallucinatory-architecture-of-future.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>architecture pretty_pictures design futurology</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://pruned.blogspot.com/2009/01/tarim-desert-highway.html">
    <title>Pruned: Tarim Desert Highway</title>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.viridiandesign.org/2008/11/last-viridian-note.html">
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bookninja.com/?p=4667">
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fascinating history of the roots of modern architecture
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    <title>Laura Spector Rustic Design</title>
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    <title>Why Fight Invasive Vines? Just Turn Them Into Art - New York Times</title>
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    <title>How to Spot a Cylon</title>
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    <link>http://www.quantummechanix.com/HowToSpotaCylon.html</link>
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    <title>CD Cover Meme - Brainiac - The Boston Globe</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-30T02:21:50+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/03/toybreaker-cybe.html">
    <title>Toybreaker: Cyberoptix TieLab | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[These almost persuade me to wear ties.
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~CompThink/seminars/kaufer/index.html">
    <title>Learning to See Rhetorical Design through Computational Thinking (Abstract)</title>
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    <title>The Sciences of the Artificial - Simon (@Labyrinth)</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-27T20:20:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780262691918</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of those wonderful little books which shape how you think about everything.
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    <title>Primer of Visual Literacy - Dondis (@ Labyrinth)</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-27T01:25:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780262540292</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/03/bookshelf_chair.html">
    <title>Bookshelf Chair for Ultra-Lazy Readers | Gadget Lab from Wired.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-26T14:47:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/03/bookshelf_chair.html</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://freshome.com/2008/02/25/30-of-the-most-creative-bookshelves-designs/">
    <title>30 of the Most Creative Bookshelves Designs</title>
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    <title>Modern - Designer Cat Trees-Cat Furniture</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Not _intentionally_ funny, mind you, but nonetheless quietly hilarious.  (Also, in fact, pretty sleek-looking.)
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    <title>Stephen Laniel: William McDonough and Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things</title>
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    <link>http://laniels.org/weblog/2007/12/03/william-mcdonough-and-michael-braungart-cradle-to-cradle-remaking-the-way-we-make-things/</link>
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    <title>Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation &amp; Cognition (Mitchell)</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-19T17:48:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/sale_detail.aspx?isbn=9780262631167</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Really interesting book about cognitive modeling of architectural thought
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    <title>John &amp; Belle Have A Blog: DOES WANT</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-03T15:31:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://examinedlife.typepad.com/johnbelle/2007/10/does-want.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[That is, indeed, a very cool-looking table.
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    <title>Design By Numbers - John Maeda - The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2007-10-29T14:07:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=8525</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Programming for artists (!?!) - looks very cool, but also hard to justify in my book budget. ---Apparently superseded by the Processing programming language/environment.
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