April 30, 2007

April 29, 2007

Adam's Urban Computing round 1 wrapup is well worth perusing for interesting ideas
Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River - see bigger
April must be Asshole Month: Rush Limbaugh created a song entitled, Obama the Magic Negro & features racially charged songs about Rev. Sharpton
your modern GOP
More discussions about the Jabbour NYC Subway map: Helpful distortion at NYC & London subway maps
Say it with me: pretty colors and 3 magnitudes additional lines a good map does not make

How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran
What they said before the Iraq War
notice how each one of those presented have had exactly zero damage to their careers or any ramification for words and ideas which were so blatantly wrong
McCarren Park Pool, Highbridge to reopen (Curbed asks, Where will the Hipsters go?)
The nest architecture of the Florida harvester ant
Video frames printed onto transparency film with an inkjet and cut down and projected
A fairly accurate description of Cincinnati & Cincinnati Sports: Cincy looks for virtue amid the Bengals' vices
Alternative history: CODE Guardian: Nazi robots attack! (part 2)
Via Shanghaiist, check out this CCTV report, Uniqueness of 10 hot female stars in China, which is a "devastatingly" in-depth review of Chinese women; sample: Huang Shengyi has a horse face, and big nose. When she smiles, she is fatally attractive.
I can't tell if this is straight reporting or satire...

Everyone is talking about the MTA's non adoption of the Kick Map, but the proposed map is magnitudes more difficult than the current verion, so I don't understand what the fuss is about
Serra at MoMA: Approaching the religious
agreed; name another artist who creates space which both interrogates your personal space and allows introspection
Super-sized malls raise concerns
It is ironic that developers are creating artificial "town centers" down the road from actual town centers (downtowns) which formed over decades

Christian Group Attacks Brooklyn Monologist
insane - sometimes people think freedom is for me and not for thee

On saving digital detritus: Archival Quality
how do we save digital bits, along with its' context is a bigger question than I can even start to answer
Guggenheim is all cracked up

Map: Demolition permits issued in Brooklyn
last year, Brooklyn lost five buildings and gained four buildings daily
My First Day with the Yankees as a Bat Boy: Hi, I’m Don Mattingly... and I need you to find me a bat stretcher (via)
Large collection of WWII Cutaway Renderings

Marine General in Iraq sent a Priority 1 request for renewable power stations, equipped with solar panels and wind turbines (via)
Good vs. Evil Foosball
Team Evil: Pot, Lucifer (in goal), Calgula, Ripper (as in Jack), Impaler (as in Vlad the), Hitler, Macbeth (as in Lady), Hyde, Klebb (as in Rosa), Amin, Catcher (as in the Child). versus Team Good: Claus (as in Santa), More (as in Sir Thomas), Moore (as in Bobby), Gordon (as in Flash), Robin (as in Christopher), God (in goal), Assisi, Jekyll, Poppins, Teresa, M.K. Gandhi.
The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel
The tunnel must be down; I haven't had a good burrito in years (Chipotle sadly does not count)
Huge collection of Phots of Cities Around the World

NYC appraises the value of the 592,130 non-park trees in the five boroughs at $122 million
Generals Spurn the Position of War 'Czar'
Don't we already have a position like this, which coordinates all of the different agencies, departments and cabinet positions? Last time I looked, that position was called President. God help us.
Airbag Blog Advisory System - Because words sometimes hurt

Video: Milgram Experiment & AskMe Thread
How They Make a Fake: The redesign of American currency was meant to foil counterfeiters. But in Colombia, a highly specialized criminal subculture has stayed barely one step behind.

article is from 2000, but informitive

The Heliocentric Pantheon: An Interview with Walter Murch
Pearls Before Breakfast Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?
Ford CEO saves President Bush’s life
the exec had top stop Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of a hybrid car

Pelosi Goes to Syria, Press Loses Mind
And they wonder why faith in the traditional media has eroded so much
Video of the Patriot Guard Riders who shield families from the hate of the Phelps family during funerals, which I linked to previously
Michael Bierut: Typography, Our Little Secret
How sad am I that I haven't seen the documentary, Helvetica? So sad!
Video in which Bill O'Reilly makes Geraldo look sane (backstory)

BBC's documentary, The Most Hated Family in America (with Louis Theroux) chronicles the Westboro Baptist Church - watch, but be warned: this doc contains hateful people and bigotry; YouTube version of The Most Hated Family in America
Please, please, please go away. Video of the Patriot Guard Riders who shield families from the hate of the Phelps family during funerals

Senator Orein Hatch's Comical Lie
Your Republican Senators for you
Pixelator : an unauthorized on-going video art performance collaboration with the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, Clear Channel Communications, and its selected artists.
US Home prices adjusted for inflation plotted as a roller coaster