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The new World Trade Center designs are a vast improvement over the previous set of designs. I don't like all of them, but I like that this set takes risks. I do like a few of them very much; in particular, the Peterson/Littenberg seems to me to be elegant without being boring, and the Studio Daniel Libeskind proposal would be my choice. It maintains certain features of the current site, so that we won't forget, and the shattered crystal feel of the buildings seems really appropriate.
Dec. 19th, 2002
Perceptive souls will notice a Creative Commons license in the bottom of the left hand column. Or, if you're reading the bare bones Population: One, it's at the bottom of the page. I wound up choosing the very liberal Attribution license. This means that anyone can copy, distribute, or display these pages or works derived from these pages, as long as they give me credit. I doubt anyone will, mind you. This is pretty much just a philosophical statement.
I have noted that the entire site is under that license except where specifically noted otherwise. That's because of this entry, which is licensed under the Open Game License. I think the Creative Commons licenses are generally superior to the OGL; the OGL includes several restrictions on material covered by the license, and also adds a complex and confusing Product Identity clause. I don't expect to license anything further under the OGL, unless I have to because I'm deriving from something else licensed under the OGL.
I haven't bothered adding the license to each individual archive page, because I don't want to be cluttered. I may change my mind; if anyone happens to have thoughts on this, feel free to sing out.
When I mentioned imagination in skyscrapers earlier, I was thinking in particular of the skyscrapers of Dubai. Then I realized I'd never linked to those. So: here's a page of drawings of Dubai skyscrapers, which will give you an idea of how inventively wacky and big they are. This page also has drawings. The drawings there aren't as good, but they link to photos of the buildings, which are incredible.
Virginia Postrel commented on Bob Jones University last year. Good stuff, and an interesting postulate which makes a lot of sense. I found the link in a recent post of hers regarding the nature of the Southern Christian right. No perma-link, alas. She says there that "the South-based Christian right is not a racist movement. Billy Graham won that debate. Bob Jones lost it." I tend to agree with that, but I would add the caveat that if Bob Jones University is the sort of place that's producing Southern Republican political candidates (which is her assertion in the earlier piece), then the nature of the Southern Christian right is not entirely relevant to the nature of Christian right-wing politicians.
Notes from the Velvet Crypt is a cool little weblog about eroticism, science fiction, horror, and stuff like that. In other words, stuff I like when I'm not thinking about politics. If she ever says anything nice about Laurell Hamilton, though, I will be saddened.