Weekly Filet #17: Fukushima Is A Symptom. And more.
Proud to be entirely Royals free. Weekly Filet #17 is out. You can view it in your browser or right below.
This week's top recommendation
As media attention on Fukushima is fading quickly, it's time for some real analyses. This comment by Tokio-based Swiss web designer Oliver Reichenstein, a friend of mine, is one of the sharpest I've read on the matter. Not because he's an expert in the field, but because he is not. He takes a unique approach, combining what he knows about designing for the web with key learnings from ancient Greek philosophy, to really add something of substance to the debate. Key statements: "Good technology is technology that doesn’t rely on perfection"; "Giving technology in the hands of people that...don’t know that they don’t know is where things started to get really dangerous."
→ A Web Designer on Fukushima (Information Architects)
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→ The Really Smart Phone (Wall Street Journal)
Emotions laid bare. People's faces as they sit opposite motionless performance artist Maria Abramović at Moma.
→ Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (Flickr Album)
Wikileaks' latest leak offers a concise and disturbing inside view of the workings around Guantanamo.
→ Guantanamo Files: Lives In An American Limbo (New York Times)
A must watch: Impressive and absolutely beautiful short documentary on the making of hand-crafted top end hourglasses in Basel.
→ The Hourglass (Vimeo)