Yearly Archives: 2008

WorldChanging Seattle: Smaller Homes, Bigger Communities

WorldChanging Seattle: Smaller Homes, Bigger Communities – my interests seem to converge a lot. Reading an article about how small houses are better (which I have been trying to convince people of for some time) on a Seattle (where I … Continue reading

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Sidewalks Can Be Cool Too…So Why Aren’t They? | hugeasscity

Sidewalks Can Be Cool Too…So Why Aren’t They? | hugeasscity – just what I was thinking during a lot of my time in Europe a few months ago.

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Freebase Parallax

Freebase Parallax – when Freebase first came out as a sort of open version of Google Base, I doubted if it would come to fill that role. Today Freebase has tons of data, and is really well designed and managed. … Continue reading

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I’ll Take My Infographic in Bright Orange, Men’s Medium | FlowingData

I’ll Take My Infographic in Bright Orange, Men’s Medium | FlowingData – t-shirts with information graphics. One of my dozens of failed infographic ideas was to put them on t-shirts, but I didn’t get past one design (in my head).

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WordPress › MyBlogLog: Just for you « WordPress Plugins

WordPress › MyBlogLog: Just for you « WordPress Plugins – I doubt this will get much uptake, but it is actually really neat. Anyone with a mybloglog cookie, when viewing a blog with this plugin, will see a list of … Continue reading

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15 reasons Mr. Rogers was best neighbor ever – CNN.com

15 reasons Mr. Rogers was best neighbor ever – CNN.com – a lot of this I didn’t even know. How many Mr. Rogers are left in this world?

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URLinfo gets plaigarized

URLinfo beta || Fagan Finder – URLinfo is a tool I built years ago. It was first called “Site Specific” when I put it up on on October 1, 2001 (see a November cache), finally rebranding it as URLinfo during … Continue reading

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reading the Evening Standard: some notes on transportation

So I finished the last book I had with me a few days prior, leaving me with not much to do for my flight back from Europe. I managed to find a copy of the Evening Standard, a London paper, … Continue reading

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Evening Standard comments continued: G8 tackles poverty?

Yet another in millions of articles over the years about supposed schemes to reduce global poverty and otherwise deal with the problems of developing nations. The problem with all of this of course, is that world leaders always go for … Continue reading

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vehicle and pedestrian signalling

It seems that practically every city has a slightly different way of indicating pedestrian and/or vehicle signals. I especially noticed this, what with my recent trip to Europe. Essentially, they differ in the ways that the signal changes to inform … Continue reading

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