Earlier this week, startup incubator Y Combinator made a bit of a splash by hiringa lolcat entrepreneurto work on its “New Cities” program. The entire endeavor appears to be completely ahistorical. So, in an effort to help them out, here’s a reminder of the last time someone (the ...
Already it seems to me that single-family homes are unaffordable for a typical family because the cost and challenge of bringing contractors in to maintain all of the systems has been growing every year. Adding an electricity generation plant on the roof makes this problem worse. Related: “Tes...
In addition to the full-service, general-line ad agency, there are also firms that concentrate on certain kinds of advertising and marketing: employment, help-wanted, medical, categorized, industrial, financial, direct-response, retail, yellow pages, theatrical/entertainment, financial investment, trav...
new economy, New Urbanism, Peoples Temple, profit motive, Ralph Nader, rent control, Ronald Reagan, San Francisco homelessness, Savings and loan crisis, Silicon Valley, South of Market, San Francisco, strikebreaker, union organizing, urban planning, urban renewal, very high income, young professio...
Some of the caregivers discussed that they were planning to actively engage with their local neighborhoods to trap and sterilize stray cats with the support of the program. The following quotes give context to this: “…I make sure that I say, oh, there’s this program that, you know, ...