http://www.schneiderism.com informational omnivore Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:58:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nothing stands in the way of progress. The celebrated decisions of a couple decades ago are today's eyesore, an obstacle to a bright and shiny future. Around this reality has grown the fascinating industry of building demolition. There are a number of ways to remove a building structure from the ... http://www.schneiderism.com/building-delete/ I have been reading and researching more intensely about peak oil and the intricacies and intrigues of U.S. energy policy. I found an excellent resource in the comprehensive blog The Oil Drum, as well as Peak Oil, and the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas. It was ... http://www.schneiderism.com/an-energy-protection-force/ Dan Wieden, founder of Wieden+Kennedy, said that line about being stupid when asked about his job by Polly Labarre of Mavericks at Work. I believe that the full quote was "My job is to walk in stupid every day." His point is that there is no way he could know ... http://www.schneiderism.com/walk-in-stupid-every-day/ Luis de Sousa put together a really interesting piece for The Oil Drum that captures a number of perspectives on the value of human labor power as compared to the power generated by a barrel of oil, and goes some distance in explaining why oil is such an efficient energy ... http://www.schneiderism.com/oil-power-contrasted-against-human-power/ skate - shot on red - 120 fps from opus magnum prod. on Vimeo. Came across this video yesterday and was mesmerized by it. I grew up skateboarding but was not particularly good at it. So, cool on one level by the moves these guys are pulling off, things I could ... http://www.schneiderism.com/cool-on-so-many-levels/ Definitely a highlight of my rather long day today was seeing these images taken by the ESA's Mars Express robotic probe. The images depict the Echus Chasma series of canyons mentioned in the title, and I find them absolutely stunning. Planetary geologists believe that these chasms were formed by flowing ... http://www.schneiderism.com/echus-chasma-a-martian-grand-canyon/ On July 11th schneiderism crossed the one year mark, and is closing in on 250 posts. It has been a great experience. This effort has introduced me to and allowed me to cross paths with smart, cool people from all over the world. As an outlet, researching for schneiderism has ... http://www.schneiderism.com/one-year-later-rock-on/ Catching up on the deluge that is my RSS reader lately, I came across this image from APOD of the Caloris basin (also called Caloris Planitia) on Mercury recently snapped by the Mercury Messenger robotic explorer. It's huge, and one of the largest impact basins from an asteroid-sized object in ... http://www.schneiderism.com/mercury-thats-going-to-leave-a-mark/ One company's vision of the automobiles of the future. Volkswagen recently launched Volkswagen 2028, a website that explores VW's perspective on a number of issues and how those issues might manifest themselves through design twenty years from now, a perspective rooted deeply in Volkswagen's longer term brand strategy (read that ... http://www.schneiderism.com/das-auto-of-the-future/ Matt Dickman recently conducted a really interesting reader poll over at his blog Techno//Marketer to get a sense of what people felt the most influential medium might be. The results are presented in the graph above. I believe it is a safe bet that his readers skew massively to the ... http://www.schneiderism.com/the-changed-landscape-of-influence/