After Corbu

…to enjoy the relaunch of After Corbu, now complete with:

consistent posting!
actual discussion of the politics of space + structure!
heretofore unknown brilliance!
more structural engineering nuts and bolts (sorry) than ever before!
more (!) punctuation!!!

So sit back, grab some horchata, and enjoy.

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I couldn’t get video’s to embed properly, so I updated to the new version of Wordpress, hoping that would help. This crashed the site, because the new version doesn’t like advanced cache plugins. Of course. A simple thing to fix…if you know what you’re doing.
Anyway, post-update the site seems to be running […]

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Wherein I explain why I am loathe to criticize posts or comments at the big Feminist blogs.
A history: In an earlier post I suggested that it was sexist to dedicate yourself to arguing against women, and came down hard on a male blogger for it. At the same time I ignored the female blogger, […]

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The abortion-study blowup (with posts by Jill and Mike probably the last gasp), caused me to look into something.
Comprehensive list of woman criticized by John Cain:

Zuzu
Jessica Valenti
Garance Franke-Ruta
Dana Goldstein
Kathryn Jean Lopez
Amanda Marcotte
Deborah Tornello (in comments)
Tania Head

Comprehensive list of men criticized by John Cain:

Gregg Easterbrook
Judah

Note that these lists are based on a very small sample […]

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Now that After Corbu is the #74 Architecture Blog on the web, I wanted to take a moment to congratulate all the readers of this site.  Clearly you are a brilliant bunch, or you wouldn’t visit such an awesome site.
I jest (re: my ego, not your intelligence), but I am legitimately excited when anyone takes […]

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There is a subset of contemporary art that is primarily concerned with self-examination and asks “what is art?” And then asks it again. And again. It’s a legitimate question — Tolstoy has a treatise on the subject — but I don’t see what the visual arts really add to the discussion.
I […]

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So apparently there’s a lot of buzz around Female Urinals — who knew? Even more apparently, my very own little blog has the 4th best post on said topic in the whole internets. I don’t know whether to be pleased or horrified. But my emotions won’t get in the way of self-promotion. […]

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So I am home again, and relaunching Radio Corbu. I planned on posting a but more while traveling, but my host’s computer had this annoying tick where every few minuted the cd drive would open and close and open part way then start to close only to open fully and then close. I […]

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Posting from now until Friday the 24th will be irregular, as I’m traveling to see people I love more than you, my (possibly imagined) readers. In the meantime, read Green Mars. Don’t let the genre and cover art fool you, it’s an amazing piece of literature.
And if you’ve already read said masterpiece, check out the […]

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I realized I neglected to quote Alexander’s actual design pattern about building height during Christopher Alexander Day, so here it is:
In any urban area, no matter how dense, keep the majority of buildings four stories high or less.  It is possible that certain buildings should exceed this limit, but they should never be buildings for […]

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I’ve had company the last few days, and what with all the talk of food, music, wine, and revolution have not fit in much blogging. Now everyone’s gone, and as lonliness sets in, I turn once again to the internets for companionship.

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I’m fairly new to this whole blogging thing, and there’s a lot of things I don’t know. For instance, I didn’t know you were supposed to blog from and efficiency apartment in a bathrobe with a modem while being named Vinny. I feel like a jerk for missing the memo. I also […]

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I knew something about the LGF blow-up (won’t link) over the military & progressives panel questioner earlier today (which will inevitably spread far and wide by tomorrow) struck me as weirdly topical, and then I remembered. We’ve just been treated to weeks of the Scott Thomas Who? There is no such Scott Thomas! “Scandal” […]

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This post of Ezra Klein’s at Tapped, about conflict at a panel on the military and progressives at YearlyKos, really drew the chronically offended right-wingers out of the woodwork, spurred on by our friends at LGF. I wonder if this will have the staying power of “protesters spitted on returning troops and chanted ‘babykillers’” […]

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So I think I’ve figured out what the major topic divisions of this site will be and created a more hierarchal post taxonomy. The straight list was getting a bit unwieldy, and I didn’t want to cut back on my tagging…since more tags gives means I get a greater sense of accomplishment from the […]

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Hell no. Because that’s just how strong I am in my faith/laziness. Generally, I post in the evening on days that aren’t Sunday. My goal is 1-2 posts of entirely new content, with 3-4 commentaries on other blogs or news happenings. I’ll probably re-evaluate everything after a few more weeks, but for now, this is […]

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