Horror and beauty on an urban expressway

But he doesn’t romanticize the roadway; in the notes, he calls it “a dark, spotty, viral, cancerous, bronchial, pneumatic, and convoluted mass of gray matter, at best.” What fired his imagination was not love, but horror. To him, the highway represents the nadir of American transportation culture and the melancholy triumph of the dark lord Robert Moses.
The BQE as muse.
Image and quote via New York Magazine
11:45 pm • 18 December 2009
"An organization that wins through dirty tricks starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work."
— Paul Graham
6:59 pm • 19 November 2009
At Newly Nerfed, my write-up on National Disability Mentoring Day experience
The post looks great, and Joey added sweet pics of the interior of Bloomberg LP. (My DMD location.) Many, many thanks to Joey and her blog for posting my review.
6:18 pm • 9 November 2009
Is there any place that’s doing better interactive data visualization? Another fantastic piece from the New York Times: The Jobless Rate for People Like You
via FlowingData
10:27 am • 9 November 2009
A new installation challenges our preconceptions concerning heroism, not least because of its location on the walls of The Guards Chapel, spiritual home of the Household Division of the British Army
via Creative Review
8:45 am • 9 November 2009
How an economist's cry for ethical capitalism was heard
Hertz falls into the pragmatic tradition of philosophical left, as such I find her fascinating.
5:54 pm • 1 November 2009
A newspaper (welcome kit?) with more depth

A conceptual idea for opening up data to residents and new neighbors:
The data.gov.uk Newspaper [newspaperclub.co.uk] is a tangible prototype of a potential service targeting people who recently moved into a new area, and shows information about the area, such as local services, environmental information, crime statistics, travel times, transportation options, education and healthcare.
via information aesthetics
12:51 am • 22 October 2009
The new American Dream: Renting
Thomas Sugrue on accepting that home ownership is not always a good goal and curtailing the enormous programs fueling that ambition.
1:05 pm • 20 October 2009
Captioning news from HearingMojo
Via HearingMojo, web video captioning is finally getting the attention it deserves from the top: the hosts and the developers.
10:00 am • 20 October 2009
Make the walls invisible, for just one night
Brooklyn projected image project, highlighting interior usages of industrial buildings in Williamsburg/Greenpoint area.
4:57 pm • 19 October 2009