http://www.lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/ work, the "economy," 'technology,' public space, San Francisco past and present, class, books! en-us Copyright 2008 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:32:26 -0800 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:14:09 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.15 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss This is mostly a huge photo gallery, but let me tell you a little about it too... first off, "thank you corkers!" was the surprising refrain we heard throughout the ride as we passed by groups of people corking.... http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/thank_you_corke.html http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/thank_you_corke.html Travel report Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:32:26 -0800 I realized soon after arriving that the last time I was in Vancouver was all the way back in 1986 for a conference called "Split Shift: The New Work Writing" when I came up with several Processed World colleagues and... http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/exploring_vanco.html http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/exploring_vanco.html Travel report Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:18:43 -0800 I had a great visit to Seattle for lots of reasons, but bicycling wasn't really one of them. I cycled around quite a bit, but it's an unfriendly place for cycling, even though I did see a fair number of... http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/nowtopia_in_sea.html http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/nowtopia_in_sea.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:11:22 -0800 On the road for nearly two months, I've been talking a lot about Do-It-Yourself (DIY). I was up horribly early today, Sunday June 22, to be on KEXP radio at 7:30 a.m. in Seattle, and managed to squeeze in a... http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/diy_is_bigger_t.html http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/diy_is_bigger_t.html general musings Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:42:04 -0800 The "Towards Carfree Cities" Conference in Portland this past week was quite a fun time for me. I didn't attend very many workshops but I made lot of new friends, saw many old pals too, and generally was in networking... http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/carfree_in_port.html http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/carfree_in_port.html Travel report Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:27:15 -0800 On Wednesday past Russell, our host Katie, and her big dog Beijou, drove up the Columbia River Gorge to visit the hometown of Michael Med-o, a place called White Salmon that I've been hearing about for 25 years. Finally I... http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/in_the_cascades.html http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/in_the_cascades.html Travel report Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:10:15 -0800 I am in Portland at the "Towards Carfree Cities" Conference, running from Monday to Thursday this week. I took advantage of this to also arrange the northwest leg of my Nowtopia tour, and so on Monday night I appeared at... http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/carfree_portlan.html http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/carfree_portlan.html Travel report Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:46:21 -0800 Came to Eugene and had a lovely visit. It felt a bit weird for different reasons, hard to pin down. Obviously the town is home to Zerzan and the Green Anarchy crowd, and their bizarre enthusiasm for apocalyptic catastrophe as... http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/ugene_ohaysis.html http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/ugene_ohaysis.html Travel report Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:40:26 -0800 On my way north now, heading to Eugene, Portland and beyond during the next three weeks. Unfortunately, Russell H. and I are ensconced in a hotel in Yreka because the car we're borrowing broke down. Hopefully it'll be a minor... http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/a_bit_of_nowtop.html http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/a_bit_of_nowtop.html San Francisco news Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:55:58 -0800 Sunday we all gathered at the Pyramid again, hot sun beating down at midday. By 12:30 or so we started rolling, a straight 25 kilometers south to the beach. It was by far their largest beach ride yet, apx. 1200... http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/al_mare_to_the.html http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/al_mare_to_the.html Travel report Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:20:44 -0800 I ran around snapping shots of t-shirts, trying to grab the breadth of things bicycle that were representing. The first batch went up in the post on Critical Mass on May 30. The black t-shirt referring to $100 barrel oil,... http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/tshirt_gallery.html http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/tshirt_gallery.html Travel report Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:13:36 -0800 Saturday, the “Big Critical Mass” (“Ciemmona” in Italian) began at Piazza San Giovanni in Laterno, where I’d coincidentally visited a couple of days earlier. We started our day by going over to the Ciclofficina “Don Quixote” at SNIA, a former... http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/snia_and_ciemmo.html http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/snia_and_ciemmo.html Travel report Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:42:19 -0800 The big Interplanetary Critical Mass on Saturday May 31 in Rome, followed by the Sunday June 1st 25-kilometer ride to the beach (and following the monthly Critical Mass on Friday May 30), has to be one of the most fun... http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/a_sublebrity_in.html http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/06/a_sublebrity_in.html Travel report Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:12:04 -0800 Just as incredible as you might imagine… maybe more so… Wild bikes, warm people, a sweet scene late in the ride when a woman sat on her boyfriend’s handlebars facing him, with her arms wrapped tightly around him in a... http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/05/critical_mass_i_1.html http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/05/critical_mass_i_1.html Travel report Sat, 31 May 2008 23:54:29 -0800 I had a fantastic night at Flexi Libreria last night. Somewhere between 50 and 80 people jammed in to the beautiful new space, which takes its name from the increasing precarity that its founders, all research and technical workers during... http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/05/great_night_at.html http://lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/archives/2008/05/great_night_at.html Travel report Fri, 30 May 2008 06:49:07 -0800