Transportation

The future(?) is all red and swoopy in these five exam­ples of
futur­is­tic design. I want a jet bike!

Okay, all the green­ers want us to know that the future is public
trans­porta­tion. Maybe if they can make all the bus­es as cool as these
bus shel­ters. Erm, adver­tis­ing is promi­nent fea­ture in all of them.
The future looks an awful lot the present.

Gra­ham Park­er and his bud­dy Stew­art Cauley has got­ten their hands on a
trove of pho­tographs from the 1917 Beek­man Street sub­way col­lapse in
NYC. They’ve uploaded them to Panora­ma and mapped the loca­tions using
the nota­tions on the pics. Fascinating.

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Technology and Society

Google’s Pub­lic Pol­i­cy blog announces DataLiberation.org. Free­ing your
data from the cloud keep­ers. The com­par­i­son to rent­ing an apart­ment in
the first ‘graph push­es the anal­o­gy fur­ther than usu­al — to good
effect IMO.

Books car­ried by back­pack­ers are care­ful­ly cho­sen with an eye to
weight vs. ben­e­fit. Here’s a set of sug­ges­tions for books that
qual­i­fy. Motor­cy­clist choose almost as care­ful­ly. What would you add
to the list?

Ars Tech­ni­ca’s review of Scrib­ble­nauts is enough to con­vince me to dig
out my old DS in prepa­ra­tion for the next long plane trip.

xkcd con­tem­plates a Scrib­ble­nauts ver­sion of real­i­ty. <face­book> Like
</facebook>

The Wiz­ard of Oz is 70 years old. Wow. I was trau­ma­tized by those
damned mon­keys as a child. Now I wish I have my own fly­ing monkey
army. Sun­Fil­tered offers a cou­ple of links.

Do your­self a favor and give this Eric Clap­ton ver­sion of Somewhere
Over the Rain­bow a lis­ten. A palate cleanser if you will.

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Fashion and Design

Dorothy need­ed ruby slip­pers to get home. I’m lik­ing these from Ahmet
Bay­tar bet­ter than the sequined orig­i­nals. (Link to my site because
the design­er’s site is unlink­able flash.)

Inspi­ra­tion for girls who are going to get what they need and don’t
feel like putting up with a fairy god­moth­er to do it.
http://insomnio.org/post/188578223/the-gun-and-the-girl

Col­or and pat­tern inspi­ra­tion for the day. Batik.

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Video(s) of the Day

Don’t be like this guy.

Or this pig. (Or sing like Nureyev.)

More mup­pet creepi­ness here.

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