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...time to work on a book to be titled “Rethinking Urban Space, From the Bottom Up.” She will focus on the Los Angeles dynamics of street vending, garage sales, and vacant-lot transformations. “Even if they may appear to be trivial, they actually are significant in the way they rethink urban space,” she said. “We’ve been working on this project for 10 years, so now I’m going to sit down and write...
...aesthetic aspect,” he says.In exploring the relationship between gaming and art, HIMG is part of a larger trend among Harvard students—the search for a way to healthily incorporate increasingly addictive and complex video and computer games into their lives. The pursuit may seem trivial to non-gamers, but for a growing section of the Harvard population, it’s an incredibly difficult balancing act.DIGITAL EVOLUTIONLi agrees that the term “interactive media” covers a wide spectrum, but he also notes that the Review’s interest rests primarily...
...instant message, tiny snippets of personal information: what you're doing, what you're about to do, what you just did, what your cat just did and so on. Twitter does the Internet equivalent of splitting the atom. It creates a unit of content even smaller and more trivial than the individual blog entry. Expect the response to be suitably explosive...
...Preaching Tolerance re your report about the age-old divide between Sunnis and Shi'ites [March 12]: It never ceases to amaze me that people kill one another over trivial religious differences. Religious wars will be with us for a very long time. Isn't the Shi'ite-Sunni battle the same religious trivia as the Northern Ireland Protestant-Catholic mess that has been going on for so many years? How could these issues be so important that one can kill one's neighbor over them? Jeff White, Kilchberg, Switzerland...
...Preaching Tolerance Re your report about the age-old divide between Sunnis and Shi'ites [March 12]: It never ceases to amaze me that people kill one another over trivial religious differences. Religious wars will be with us for a very long time. Isn't the Shi'ite-Sunni battle the same religious trivia as the Northern Ireland Protestant-Catholic mess that has been going on for so many years? How could these issues be so important that one can kill one's neighbor over them? Jeff White, KILCHBERG, SWITZERLAND...