WorldChanging Seattle: Congestion Pricing: Can Tolling Be Fair? – WorldChanging Seattle (one of my favourite websites since I moved to Seattle, but also a great site for people anywhere) links to a really well-done report on traffic congestion and tolls, along with excellent commentary on the report.
Maybe this is a sad statement, but real hard data and analysis is so rare that I really appreciate when I see it done.
During election day here in the US, I noticed a church which was acting as a poll location also had a bake sale on that day. Think about how many more people will pass by that bake sale than on any other day that they could choose to do it. Someone there is really smart.
I started writing this post in early August and forgot to finish it and publish. So here it is now
I was an intern at Microsoft the previous two summers, and this week I started full time. Some things change and some things do not. The same people are playing foosball on my floor. Construction is everywhere, and despite a year’s absence, this still includes the street in front of my building. The shuttles that go between buildings are still white, but now have a green stripe. Kitchens finally have compost disposal, and the cutlery and plates etc. are now compostable. Not as good as real cutlery and plates, which I had wished for, but better than before. In many ways, it hardly feels as if I left.
Pie Chart on Pizza Box Advertising – information aesthetics – nice ads… we need to see more information graphics everywhere
Brain Off » Open Source Geo Stack :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet – since I emailed Mikel asking for a list like this about a year and a half ago, I can take credit for it, right?
Anyhow this is a great list that includes everything except the actual sources of data. The best one for that is often OpenStreetMap, but it really depends where and what you’re mapping.
Pipes Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing iCal and CSV Support – so this news is way old… somehow I never knew that Yahoo pipes supported iCal for both input and output. Pipes is such an amazingly powerful tool, I definitely need to play with it more, especially for events.
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 now live) website, the article goes on to talk about trying to do the same thing in Toronto.
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.
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. This video of what you can do with one Freebase-based tool is truly amazing. Watch it.
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).