It rained yesterday and through the night. Much needed and very welcome. This morning I took a walk, passing through clouds of strong scents of pine and dirt, and took a few photos (more can be seen in the photoblog):

The High-Tech Future of Travel – Popwuping
I’m not a skeptic but for me getting lost is part of the fun and the point of travel.

Agreed! Being lost is how I discovered the most interesting places!

Filip Dujardin Digital Art Photography | TrendLand
Somewhere in between reality and fantasy lie the the photographic collages of imaginary buildings made from Filip’s copy & past photoshop skills.

John Pawson speaks about plain rooms (YouTube)

Somebody who calls himself “liebert4evr” is mixing Guns and Nouveau Flamenco – I have such interesting fans!

Cute Lego video called Build Anything (Vimeo)

Marginal Revolution: Guess who is lobbying against marijuana legalization?
Seems pretty logical to me.

Time Magazine article on William Gibson and Zero History – which I am already re-reading. In fact I am currently switching back and forth between ZH and Pattern Recognition.

Speaking of ZH, here is that Air Penguin he wrote about. Beautiful, quicksilvery, and German.

Dictaphone Parcel (Vimeo) – I am with Music of Sound – no way they actually sent a $4,000 Nagra through the mail like that. Cool video though.

Welcome to the creepiness of social networking:

How I became a Foursquare cyberstalker | Technology | The Guardian
Louise is a complete stranger. Until 10 minutes ago when I discovered she was located within a mile of me, I didn’t even know of her existence. But equipped only with a smartphone and an increasingly popular social networking application called Foursquare, I have located her to within just a few square metres, accessed her Twitter account and conducted multiple cross-referenced Google searches using the personal details I have already managed to accrue about her from her online presence. In the short time it has taken me to walk to this pub in central London, I probably know more about her than if I’d spent an hour talking to her face-to-face. She doesn’t know it yet, but Louise is about to meet her new digital stalker.

Thanks for the link, Guy. I am even starting to use email less and less. Instead I am exchanging documents, text files, via DropBox.

Tadao Ando’s Yumebutai & Water Temple (a set on Flickr)