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15 Jul 08
William H. Whyte on 'Broadway Boulevard'
"The pedestrian is a social being; he is also a transportation unit, and a remarkably efficient one. … Most transportation experts, however, scant the pedestrian and his potential; millions are being spent in research on new kinds of people-movers but very little on the oldest and best kind: people themselves."
David Brooks: Neuroscience and Sociology
"There's no gene for marrying Betty."
"Untangling the Web" - Rensselaer Magazine
Details Rensselaer's efforts to develop semantic web technologies.
14 Jul 08
Public Sector Information Unlocking Service
If you are trying to re-use some public sector information, but the data you need is locked-up, this service is for you.
The History of Cartography in a Nutshell
A very concise history of cartography, with ample footnotes.
29 May 08
Paulin's CM 141 desk to be reissued
I like the style of this desk (and most other things Bauhaus).
Subterranean robot train to beat the jams
Cargo Cap's genius lies in its simplicity. Beneath city streets would run a series of tunnels. An electric monorail system would be built to run sealed capsules guided by computers and sensors, each carrying up to 600kg in weight. The plan is for them to run, in tens of thousands, 24 hours a day, gliding silently direct to delivery points.
Twitter / towerbridge
Tower Bridge, London, is an example of a twitterject.
Chris Harrison - Web Trigrams Visualization
Visualizations of three word search terms (trigrams).
23 May 08
French connection to America's pastime
"A village mayor had a vision: build a field and spark interest in baseball. It did, just barely. But what a ballpark."
Galaxie 500
With a good discography, for the completists like myself.
22 May 08
Google Reader
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That a law invalidated by a court is supported by a large majority is not an argument supporting the conclusion that the court's decision was wrong. Central to our system of government is the premise that there are laws which even the largest majorities are prohibited from enacting because such laws violate the constitutional rights of minorities.
21 May 08
Design Patois
When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like cuttlefish squirting out ink. —George Orwell.
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