Three Good Reads for Wednesday
March 2nd, 2011 § Leave a Comment
A tourist captures the exact moment the earthquake hit Christchurch, NZ. Credit to @GrantyGrant on twitter
“Boxpark basically tells corporations that they can come along and sell to this market without really understanding it or investing in its future. It is a retail smash-and-grab, and will leave no legacy when it leaves beyond another empty site awaiting redevelopment in Shoreditch.”
Kieran Long dismantles the planned Box Park for Shoreditch.
“Some guy will use a phrase that you have never heard before. And when you go on Urban Dictionary, look up “photo wrecker” and read the description—”A retarded or disabled person”—you will sob. Because you’re furious and you’re dejected. And because for the first time in your life, you fear how people may one day treat your son when you are not around to protect him.”
The mother of a child with special needs wages a one woman twitter campaign to fight the R word.
And not so much a read as a morally questionable meme:
