01.3.2012 

Stetsasonic - Talkin’ All That Jazz.

Pure 1988.

 12.27.2011 

Books of 2011

A list of books I read in 2011:

You can see more of what I’m reading and what’s on my reading list, too.

 12.2.2011   11.27.2011 
osmtampabay:

New ways to look at OpenStreetMap data.

A new Transport layer has been added as a new renderer layer to OSM. The new tiles come courtesy of Andy Allan (of OpenCycleMap) and include things like bike routes, bus routes, subways, rail systems, and train stations.

Even though the Tampa Bay Area doesn’t have quite the vibrant public transit systems of some cities, rendering data for custom use-cases like this shows the real power of the detailed data beneath the surface of OSM. It shows the value of adding things like route information, bus stops, and bike paths. You can see from the map that Tampa has pretty decent coverage of route information, while Pinellas has hardly a thing.

Let’s get in there and change that!

osmtampabay:

New ways to look at OpenStreetMap data.

A new Transport layer has been added as a new renderer layer to OSM. The new tiles come courtesy of Andy Allan (of OpenCycleMap) and include things like bike routes, bus routes, subways, rail systems, and train stations.

Even though the Tampa Bay Area doesn’t have quite the vibrant public transit systems of some cities, rendering data for custom use-cases like this shows the real power of the detailed data beneath the surface of OSM. It shows the value of adding things like route information, bus stops, and bike paths. You can see from the map that Tampa has pretty decent coverage of route information, while Pinellas has hardly a thing.

Let’s get in there and change that!

 11.12.2011 

callmeaaron:

Amazing story about hand made knives that goes deeper into the “Made by Hand” story.

Beautifully shot film about someone making great, quality products.

 11.4.2011   10.7.2011 
“Gentle reader, thou must learne the Alphabet, to wit, the order of the Letters as they stand, perfectly without booke, and where every Letter standeth: as b neere the beginning, n about the middest, and t toward the end. Nowe if the word, which thou art desirous to finde, begin with a then looke in the beginning of this Table, but if with v looke towards the end. Againe, if thy word beginne with ca looke in the beginning of the letter c but if with cu then looke toward the end of that letter. And so of all the rest. &c.”
Robert Cawdrey, explaining how to use his Table Alphabeticall, one of the first English dictionaries.
 09.29.2011 

Amazon introduces a mobile browser, Amazon Silk.

With their recent successful entry into the consumer products and software markets with the Kindle devices and the marketplace, I knew they must be cooking up something to utilize their crazy behind-the-scenes infrastructure services.

Silk uses their EC2 platform to decouple the rendering of web pages on mobile browsers from the hardware limitations of lower-power devices. They’re doing some amazing smart stuff to offload page rendering, image optimization, and caching to EC2. Amazing.

 08.31.2011   08.28.2011 
standupkid:

The darkest, most hopeless moment of the entire weekend crisis in the NYPD Joint Operations Center. (Photo by @anxiousjimmy)

Spot on. Hardest weekend ever for an Arsenal fan…

standupkid:

The darkest, most hopeless moment of the entire weekend crisis in the NYPD Joint Operations Center. (Photo by @anxiousjimmy)

Spot on. Hardest weekend ever for an Arsenal fan…

 08.22.2011   08.19.2011 
A dymaxion projection — a sphere projected on a flattened polyhedron.

A dymaxion projection — a sphere projected on a flattened polyhedron.

 08.18.2011   08.18.2011 

ckck:

Derek Watkins put together this video visualizing the expansion of the United States from 1700 to 1900 through the establishment of post offices.

 08.9.2011 
Impression theme by Hello New York.