April 29, 2008
Oh, right, that’s called reality. But with more of me finishing my projects on time.
Wanted: a game with awesome graphics, realistic physics, edgy story line where the outcome is that I have finished all my projects on time.
April 28, 2008
Ben Fry’s All Streets: All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas convey low population.

Ben Fry’s All Streets:

All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, and sparse areas convey low population.

April 26, 2008
“I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.” — Alfred Hitchcock
Bush on Abbas: a man who “rejects the idea of using violence to achieve objectives, which distinguishes him from other people in the region”
“ Of course I know Central Park is rectangular and not square. Of course I know the park is green, and not gray. Who cares? You want to go from Point A to Point B, period. The only thing you are interested in is the spaghetti.
— Massimo Vignelli, via Anil Dash
April 25, 2008
Verdict: not guilty
Verdict: not guilty
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Puddleblog in the Brooklyn Paper
I wonder if I’ll come to regret that quote: “‘Blogging is the lowest-common-denominator medium’ for social interaction.” In general, though, a nice summary of our slightly-more-than-single-serving site.

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Leonard Lin on TechCrunch's public flogging of Twitter's Blaine Cook
“If you’re gonna shit on someone and start pointing fingers, you better have the goods to back it up. Whiny, uninformed personal attacks belong on Arrington’s Live Journal or (wait for it…) Twitter stream.”

Map of Iranian blogs, from the Berkman Center: Given the repressive political and media environment, and high profile arrests and harassment of bloggers, one might not expect to find much political contestation in the blogosphere. However, we identified a subset of the secular/reformist pole focused intently on politics and current affairs and comprised mainly of bloggers living inside Iran, which is linked in contentious dialog with the conservative political sub-cluster. Surprisingly, a minority of bloggers in the secular/reformist pole appear to blog anonymously, even in the more politically-oriented part of it; instead, it is more common for bloggers in the religious/conservative pole to blog anonymously.

Map of Iranian blogs, from the Berkman Center:

Given the repressive political and media environment, and high profile arrests and harassment of bloggers, one might not expect to find much political contestation in the blogosphere. However, we identified a subset of the secular/reformist pole focused intently on politics and current affairs and comprised mainly of bloggers living inside Iran, which is linked in contentious dialog with the conservative political sub-cluster. Surprisingly, a minority of bloggers in the secular/reformist pole appear to blog anonymously, even in the more politically-oriented part of it; instead, it is more common for bloggers in the religious/conservative pole to blog anonymously.

Men’s Vogue is selling limited edition signed copies of Maximo Vignelli’s subway map. Read more about the map at Design Observer. via URN.
Men’s Vogue is selling limited edition signed copies of Maximo Vignelli’s subway map. Read more about the map at Design Observer. via URN.
April 24, 2008
“ If you do bother, you will set an example for other people. If enough other people bother, each one influencing yet another in a chain reaction of behavioral change, markets for all manner of green products and alternative technologies will prosper and expand. (Just look at the market for hybrid cars.) Consciousness will be raised, perhaps even changed: new moral imperatives and new taboos might take root in the culture. Driving an S.U.V. or eating a 24-ounce steak or illuminating your McMansion like an airport runway at night might come to be regarded as outrages to human conscience. Not having things might become cooler than having them.
— Michael Pollan in his NYTMagazine article entitled Why Bother? via seanaes
How Hillary can still win, via bullshit