Month: May 2002

Is it the end of Wallpaper magazine? See Wallpaper editor bids readers ‘adieu’

One out of fourteen households in the United States has a net worth in the seven digits. See hnw: Sizing Up The Wealth Market

The LA Downtown News carries an article on the newly opened downtown Standard hotel entitled Hip Replacement

I made some more major changes for the web site this morning. Links off the main page have been consolidated to the left so that we have a two column layout. In the near future, these will change a bit more rapidly than they have in the past as more content goes on line. The underlying code that structures the page has also been changed, from layers created in cascading style sheets to tables. The result should be much more broadly compatible with more esoteric browsers. iCab will read the web site correctly, for example, although it still won’t display the proper fonts due to lack of support for css. The random image show at the top of the page should be back for Netscape. Let me know if these changes have caused any problems.

Don’t miss the John Haddock lecture at C Level Saturday a 6.30. John Haddock is simply one of the best artists around today.

According to the New York Times, the Prada NY store is paying off, averaging $54,000 a day of sales since it opened in December and $75,000 a day in the last two months. See Betting on the Luxury Goods Market At the latter rate, it will only take 540 days to pay off the store, minus, of course, salaries, rent, expenses, and the cost of the clothes themselves. [thanks to Paul Wysocan for this one]

A year old story, but this one questions whether there really is a bandwidth glut in cities. CNET.COM’s Sam Ames ‘Cities: Bring Us Your Bandwidth’

Preservation Magazine features a story on perhaps the newest aspect of the postmetropolitan terrain: the Micropolis. You’ll have to read past the typical Preservation ideology, but The Price of Popularity is worth a look.

The BBC News reports on how the Segway scooter is doing, now that it is in use in Atlanta.

The LA Times reports that the Los Angeles City Council approved a $2.4-Billion Downtown L.A. Renewal Plan.