The Ebb of Memory, Kevin Slavin writing on digital archiving and recollection: 'The sharp upswing in all of this record-keeping – both active and passive – are redefining one of the core elements of what it means to be human, namely to remember. We are moving towards a culture that has outsourced this essential quality of existence to machines, to a vast and distributed prosthesis. This infrastructure exists right now, but very soon we’ll be living with the first adult generation whose entire lives are embedded in it.' Concluding: 'For the next generation, it will be impossible to forget it, and harder to remember.' At EDGE.

Icon's editor takes a lie detector test. Every magazine editor should have to do the same / Lynsey Hanley has a 'miserable day as Le Corbusier' / Underground City, about which more on flickr / Vanity Fair turns against its own, an editorial 180 noted at Transracial / huge, image heavy page of retro futurist concepts, many from the former Soviet Union / the Polygraph Museum / irresistable, old maps of London.

Ctrl-N Journal, a cartographic weblog. Highly recommended. See particularly the link to Windows of the Mind, a recent Guardian piece on the subconscious art of domestic psychology, the way placement of windows or walls might upset or enhance your experience of a space.

The Claremont Institute's MissileThreat.com is rich with Clancey-esque scenarios about possible future ICBM attacks on the US. Essential reading for strategic planners in the Axis of Evil. Includes jittery quicktime movies of the Chinese obliterating Los Angeles, a conservative fantasy if ever there was one.

Conditions Magazine, coming soon / Redub reader repackages key articles in a slick format / What We Do is Secret, actually, what we do is collate enormous quantities of visual material about new architecture in Japan and elsewhere / now that's a toolkit / The dieline tackles new water packaging, with an ethical caveat. Could it be true that 'working on new water brands [has] started to seem tantamount to working on cigarettes'? / art by Richard Galpin / art by Holger Lippmann.

Savage Messiah, a website by Laura Oldfield Ford / the Top 30 Failed Technology Predictions, via experts getting it wrong / Vague Terrain, a weblog / art, imagery, fashion, etc., at Mafia Hunt / the Artylizer, yet more visual sharing / above image from Toronto Scientific and Surplus / who needs Amazon when there's the Cosmic Ordering website?

My Year in Outfits at stickers and donuts (high flight) / art by Nathan Abels / Yolanda Bello's frankly rather creepy dolls (also creator of the my first McDonalds doll) / Have Fun with a Lie Detector / we need to help with this / back in pre-credit crunch times (July 2006), the NYT produced a fine piece on Russian style. Reminiscent of Daniela Rosell's photo series Ricas Y Famosas (also featured in Colors).

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