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This Summer, Elastic City (one of my recently launched projects), is giving walks throughout New York City. But these are not your typical tourist walks. These walks are led by artists. Todd Shalom, the founder of Elastic City, realized the idea while suffering from altitude sickness in Cusco, Peru.

The walks intend to make its audience active participants in an ongoing poetic exchange with the places we live in and visit. Artists are commissioned by Elastic City to create their own walks. These walks tend to focus less on providing factual information and more on heightening our awareness, exploring our senses and making new group rituals in dialogue with public space in the city.

The walks have been featured in TimeoutNY, WNYC, Wallstreet Journal, Gothamist, and other publications.

To listen Todd talk about the walks on WNYC, click here, or hit play on the player below

Browse the walks listing and rediscover New York.

Working with Internet Explorer is not fun. Working with WordPress is. For people who use, modify, and work with WordPress in Internet Explorer, you might notice that your blog will look very different in these old browsers.

I found this nice article, which helped me modify this blog for Internet Explorer, but still keep styles I wanted for Firefox, Safari, and well . . . any other browser.

The post suggested I use a different stylesheet altogether for Internet Explorer. So I did. And this is how I did it :

Make a copy of your themes css file (usually style.css) and rename it to iestyle.css (in this example). That file is where our IE specific css and tweaks will reside safely, not polluting any other browser except IE ;’) If you know what changes you want to make for just IE, go ahead and enter them now (in iestyles.css).

Now we’re going to use a conditional comment (as recommended by M$ to address these issues) so that whenever IE version 6 or less (and only IE version 6 or less) comes to our site, it will see our iestyles.css. We need to edit the theme’s header.php file. Open it up and look for where our styles.css is called. The conditional comment has to appear after the existing call to style.css!

Place this conditional statement in your header.php:

And make sure you change the link of your stylesheet!!

Thanks again to Sam at samdevol.com for the great tip and clear documentation!

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For those of us who spend lots of time online – either designing, networking, developing, or “researching video” (watching + distributing YouTube clips) for our blogs, sites, or clients+friends:
Wired has put together a list of “tools” that remind us to get back to work.

My favorite “hack” – the procrastinators clock

The article mainly lists tools either block sites or remind us to get back to our task, whatever that may be. However, it also raises the question – what exactly IS work when you’re working online.

The idea is clear: as you multi-task, your productivity decreases.
You can read Marci Alboher’s blog, Shifting Careers for the research.

How do you define your tasks ? As you go? What about when you are simply developing something from scratch? How do you limit yourself to just one program or one website?