Lev Manovich

http://wiredstore.net/about_us:

“The WIRED Store is not just a shopping destination – it’s an interactive experience that allows you to touch, test and tinker with the most “wired” products out there for the digital gentleman, gadget girl, gastronaut, smarter upstarter, adventure capitalist, maker, or culturazzo in your life. Stop by to shop and share what you find with friends and family.

The WIRED Store is located at 692 Broadway in New York City. We are open Wednesdays through Sundays, November 19th though December 26th, between 11am and 7pm. We are closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas.”

LM comment: the opening hours Wednesdays-Sundays reference an art gallery as opposed to a normal store );

http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624812674967/
Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot is 25 people. Data from Census 2000.

what: article.subject: why “newly developed world” (Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East, etc.) embraced design even more than “old west.”written: Fall 2007.download PDF: Designing Shanghai

“A characteristic issue of megacities is the difficulty in defining their outer limits and accurately estimating the population.”
Wikipedia: Megacity, accessed March 28, 2008.

Reading on the plane from San Diego to Mexico City - full-page magazine ad:

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