To WONDERLAND ->
In our modern, mediated, sterile, controlled life there is little room for magic, the surreal, fantasy. Which is why I’ve alway appreciated flying out of Boston’s Logan International. Logan’s tight...
View ArticleEscape to New York
Going through another quiet spell. Probably has to do with being totally overwhelmed with: looking for housing – any leads on housing in and around Boston, particularly the Davis Sq. area is...
View ArticleOn Going Home
Being without a car in this culture is always a strange expirence, sometimes its frustrating, a few times its surreally sublime. My recent voyage home for the holidays started Monday, 10:30am, Dec...
View ArticleSeattle Transit Corollary
So I’ve talked a number of peoples’ ears off about how excellent I think the Seattle’s bus system is, especially their nifty online trip planner, but also in terms of service and timeliness. The...
View ArticleThe New Library
The Seattle Times has a page dedicated to the new Seattle central library. Abstract glass exterior, angled and organic, bright flat colored interior (very Dutch), the Koolhaas building is very modern,...
View ArticleMBTA Maps overlaid on Google Maps
Seth talked about this at dinner tonight http://mojodna.net/?p=2
View ArticleSeattle Monorail has a Posse stickers
Nice! http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/23/seattle_monorail_has.html
View ArticleDriving = Death
I wonder if Y! employees will revolt en masse? (certainly would make working their more appealing) http://www.caterina.net/archive/000885.html
View ArticleSmile Boston Project
As just seen in June Bug. (paging KidRobot, I’d love to buy a HK vinyl version of some of these paintings) http://www.bataclan.com/
View ArticleGeoNames.org: compilation of public domain gazateers, normalized on name,...
And then provided via REST or a download. 6 million entries including 2.2 million cities and villages http://www.geonames.org/about.html
View ArticleGoogle: “one trillion words from public Web pages.”
note to self, revisit Hadoop http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-are-belong-to-you.html
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World Metros
A fan of public transit? I am. Logos from the various public transit systems around the world that I’ve ridden. Got at b3co.com! Try to build you’re own badge without using the key. I got about a 2/3...
View ArticleGothamist: Map of the Day: Getting to Work (and more!)
How people get to work in NYC. Red is cars, blue is public transit, green is walking http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/09/28/map_of_the_day_73.php
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