A secret field that summons lightning. A massive spiral that disappears into a salt lake. A celestial observatory carved into a volcano. Meet the wild—and sometimes explosive—world of land art, where artists craft masterpieces with dynamite and bulldozers. In our Season 2 premiere, guest Dylan Thuras, cofounder of Atlas Obscura, takes us off road and into the minds of the artists who literally reshaped parts of the Southwest. These works aren’t meant to be easy to reach—or to explain—but they just might change how you see the world. Land art you’ll visit in this episode: - Double Negative and City by Michael Heizer (Garden Valley, Nevada) - Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson (Great Salt Lake, Utah) - Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt (Great Basin Desert, Utah) - Lightning Field by Walter De Maria (Catron County, New Mexico) - Roden Crater by James Turrell (Painted Desert, Arizona) Via Podcast is a production of AAA Mountain West Group.…
Some talk about current technology and how it is relevant to you as a programmer
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Episode 001We talk about web services and client vs server side computation.Links:cURL (http://curl.haxx.se)Cairngorm (http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Cairngorm) Cairngorm Diagram (http://cairngormdocs.org/cairngormDiagram/index.html)Yahoo Performance (http://developer.yahoo.com/performance)YSlow (http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/FireBug (http…
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Episode 000We talk about when to use someone else's code and when to write it yourself.Links:Mootools (http://mootools.net) - Javascript FrameworkCodeIgniter (http://codeigniter.com) - PHP4 FrameworkKohana PHP (http://kohanaphp.com) - PHP5 Frameworkتوسط Mutable Programming
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