September 2011
1 post
July 2011
1 post
May 2011
4 posts
"This is a Harry Potter vignette, and Voldemort is... →
The Frank Gehry Glut →
“Don’t get me wrong, I like iconoclastic, swoopy structures that look like bashed-in sardine cans as much as the next guy. I like Czech dance halls that look like a 747 plowed right into the façade as much as anybody. I bow to no man in my admiration for an architect who can design an art museum that looks like a intergalactic recycling center. I just thought it would be nice to...
April 2011
4 posts
Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help... →
“I like Michele Bachmann now,” Tolbert added. “Because what this country needs is a president who doesn’t give a fuck about helping people.”
"As MIT rises, so does its city" →
March 2011
4 posts
“I’ve often thought that the more I read, the more I realized that our...”
– Kris Kristofferson
“In the suburb one might live and die without marring the image of an innocent...”
– Lewis Mumford, The City in History
Scientific American: Amateur Cartographers Map... →
also, here’s an awesome usda food map the article mentions (although the data is by county, which doesn’t tell you about metropolitan scale trends): http://maps.ers.usda.gov/FoodAtlas/
February 2011
5 posts
“Unless we all learn to say what we see, to describe it so others can see it, and...”
– Grady Clay
The Economist's Daily Chart: Global Obesity: An... →
Depressingly interesting.
January 2011
3 posts
U.S. Equivalents: Which countries match the GDP... →
“It has long been true that California on its own would rank as one of the biggest economies in the world. At present it would rank 8th, falling between Italy and Brazil on a nominal exchange-rate basis. But how do other American states compare with other countries? Taking the nearest equivalent country from 2009 reveals some surprises. Who would have thought that despite years of...
December 2010
12 posts
2010 Census Data - Population Change, Population... →
The density data is amazingly uninformative…but the population change in the past hundred years is really interesting!
Radical Cartography →
Some of the best maps I’ve seen in some time - both informative and beautiful!
Best College Radio Stations in the US →
wmbr <3
November 2010
2 posts
August 2010
1 post
July 2010
5 posts
May 2010
11 posts
pre-existing condition
mariobollini: today I got to play "find health insurance while unemployed for the summer," a fun and exciting game
me: oh sounds like it
me: good thing you're doing it
me: you need health insurance more than anyone i know
mariobollini: especially while dating you!
mariobollini: you actually count as a pre-existing condition
WMBR 88.1 FM - Dance Music on Books on the Radio →
Cady and I compare classics to classics - Watership Down to Boom Boom Boom Boom and 1984 to Sexy Bitch.
