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My Year in Cities, 2012
As is my tradition, below is a list of cities I have visited in 2012. I count only cities where I spend a majority of the day or a night in. Cities with an asterisk (*) denote visiting the same city on...
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Census Dotmap
Census Dotmap is a map of every person counted by the 2010 US and 2011 Canadian censuses. The map has 341,817,095 dots – one for each person – generated by a Python script from US Census block-level...
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The Citadel & Independence, USA: Another try at American Utopia
The internets are ablaze – mostly with scorn – over two different planned communities which have attracted attention after the Newtown, CT shooting: the Citadel and Glenn Beck’s Independence USA. The...
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Brookfield Properties’ Manhattan West Infrastructure Porn
Brookfield Properties is beginning their $680 million platform over the existing Amtrak Hudson Yards, which will be home to Manhattan West, a development containing two office buildings, a residential...
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The end of Eastenders causes a 3 gigawatt power surge
Power surges called the TV pickup are unique to Britain. The engineers at the National Grid control centre brace themselves each time Eastenders ends and 1.75 million kettles get switched on. Tagged:...
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Gawker Media Big Board
Gawker Media – publishers of Gawker, Jezebel, and a host of other blogs – has an awesome “big data” Big Board which is available online and also installed in their office (above). Nick Denton has...
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Quantified Self meets Neo-Taylorism
Wow: Tesco accused of using electronic armbands to monitor its staff: Tesco workers are being made to wear electronic armbands that managers can use to grade how hard they are working. A former staff...
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Rutherford Chang – We Buy White Albums
Rutherford Chang’s art/music/commerce installation We Buy White Albums where he purchases and showcases his collection of 650 first-pressings of the Beatles’ White Album at the Recess Gallery in SoHo...
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