June 30, 2007
Some Subways Found Packed Past Capacity with scary infographic
surprise, surprise: the L train is running over capacity
June 29, 2007
June 23, 2007
How victim snared ID thief - She chased down woman who had given her 6 months of hell
Nice:
Your next computer will be a big ass table.
I was away for a week of no cellphones and no internet, and am slowly patching myself back into the 21st Century
June 16, 2007
Fred Thompson: Against condoms and Right to Privacy
This is insane; Thompson believes that both Roe and Griswold are wrong. Good luck trying to get elected now, Mr. I want to take away everyone's birth control.
June 15, 2007
This is the hot article of the day: Earsplitting Symphony, With the Maestro in Blue - listen to the sirens. Adam G has some interesting commentary, NYPD’s taxonomy of sound
June 14, 2007
Boing Boing and Jonathan Adler Join Consumers in Naming Virgin America's Airplane Fleet, the new Airbus A320 names are: Airplane 2.0; An Airplane Named Desire; Contents May Be Under Pressure; Fog Cutter; Jane; Mach Daddy; Virgin & Tonic; and, Winner of Naming Contest; Unicorn Chaser (Boing Boing)and Chic Mobile (Jonathan Adler)
Video: Flying under Stockholm
A 2 meter, remote-controlled plane, flown at 70kmh through a 3.9km long tunnel, piloted from a moving car.
June 13, 2007
Oldish article about bus rapid transit: The Real Deal - New bus rapid transit plan could fuel outer-borough growth
Advocacy: Saint Louis' Former Pruitt-Igoe Site Should Be Developed as a Green Neighborhood
Recording: Jacques Derrida on Religion
the video is great, shame they had to goto Canada to get married
June 12, 2007
June 11, 2007
Google Spy: Zooming in on neighbors, nose-pickers, and sunbathers with Street View
not as hysterical an article as some out in the ether, but close
So wrong: No iPhone SDK Means No iPhone Killer Apps.
By his reasoning, since the iPod didn't have a SDK then it shouldn't be the number 1 (by several magnitudes) leader in consumer products.
Via Laura Rozen comes this story of a woman detained by the CDC prior to flight; when I flew to London two weeks ago, a college kid was visibly sick and the gate agents took him aside and had the doctors take a look at him, "as a precaution"
Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb' in the mid-1990's
June 10, 2007
The original article, Something's Got To Give, was the basis for the OK movie, Pushing Tin
June 8, 2007
June 5, 2007
Governor's Island Designs unveiled: The Park at the Center of the World
Conservative Candidates All Support Banning Gays From The Military
Let me get this straight: on one hand we have all 9 of the GOP candidates repeatedly invoke war, war, war - which incidentally is currently breaking the Army and National Guard - and on the other you have a large group of willing, abled and talented Americans who want to fight for their country, and are turned away. Makes perfect sense.
On the transformation of the ‘Lollipop’ Building
On the Six-Day War: an overview from the BBC and from The New Yorker, The Seventh Day: Why the Six-Day War is still being fought,
Mike Tyson Wants To Do Bollywood Movies
can his life become any stranger?
June 4, 2007
On Delta's new logo: Delta: Dealt a Good Hand
of all the brand refresh/redesigns of the last 5 years, this is the best (which isn't really saying much)
Exploring the Massive, Viscous Oil Blob That Lies Just Beneath the Streets of Greenpoint
June 3, 2007
Cavaliers beat Pistons 98-82 to clinch series title
This will be the first time Cleveland will go to the NBA Finals to face the Spurs
