Word: pods
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...think we're heading into a video-game version of The Matrix world with everyone plugged into his own pod. Quite the contrary: gamers appear to be more engaged with reality than other kinds of couch potatoes. According to a comprehensive survey by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA--whose members, of course, want you to think video games are wholesome), gamers spend an average of 23 hours a week volunteering and going to church, concerts, museums and other cultural events. Hard-core gamers who play 11 hours a week or more spend even more time out in the cultural world...
Finally, the group discussed making a tribute to the consumer culture phenomenon of the Apple I-Pod. If the group were to choose this project, they would recreate a huge I-Pod replica, complete with “a giant click wheel that might light up at night.” Duher says it might include “earpods in the ears of the John Harvard statue...
...perhaps the most pressing issue for Rosenblum is not how chocolate came to Europe, which company prepares it better, or where to get the best mole. It is how cacao is grown and the way the chocolate market functions from cacao pod to couverture. To answer this question, Rosenblum travels to the most common sources of cacao—including Venezuela and what he calls West Africa’s “chocolate coast...
...merely sane and rational but that acknowledged and accommodated human desires, even if imagine was all they could do. So "Archilab" opens with a section called "The Pulsating City," full of models and drawings based on organic forms or made from flexible materials, like David Greene's witty Living Pod. The point of such work was to unlock the imprisoning grids of Modernism, to make the soap bubble as plausible a standard for construction as the cube. For their 1967 Villa Rosa project, the Viennese architects who call themselves Coop Himmelb(l)au proposed a dwelling made of attachable spherical...
...religion (see godcast.org) filmmaking skinnybones.net) cover songs coverville.com and tech talk engadget.com) Traditional radio outlets like NPR, the BBC and Air America are increasingly posting podcasts as well. If you want to get a handle on it all, PodcastAlley.com is emerging as an easy-to-use guide to the pod world. The site features ratings, discussion groups and lists of some of the newest and most interesting podcasts. --By Matt Kettmann