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subjects:

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• bicycling
• economics
• environment
• music
• new york
• politics
• religion
• tech
• travel

mixes:

• monday
  sightings, sonic youth, david bowie, excepter, wire, discharge, x, fad gadget, psychic ills, cabaret voltaire, swell maps, happy mondays, daf
• boucher ep
  donald rainwater, dan hoagland
• all mixes «

written archive:

• occupy this
  what was the purpose of the occupy movement? what can be fixed? how do we fix it? do we fix it?
• facebook folly
  facebook's usability blunder
• pesky nasa pensions
  Ideas for How to Run an Effective Tea Party Group
• stop the insanity
  why not to hire a tea partier to design your website
• imbalance of power
  
• survival of the fattest
  americans getting fatter, especially in the south.
• rotten to the core
  apple is rotten to the core
• california dreamin'
  this state is run by a bunch of morons
• it's so pedestrian
  the 20th century tools we are given to do simple things like cross the street simply do not work for us. this needs to change.
• iPlod
  why i'm not buying an ipad.

gallery archive:

• 
  dope jams halloween
  deviled eggs, holograms, clowns! what a hoot!
• 
  the bikes of new york
  bikes, bikes everywhere. track bikes, 3 speeds, delivery bikes, messenger bikes. williamsburg, east village, etc.
• 
  new york city gallery
  this is new york
• 
  san joaquin 2008
  this year's journey from los angeles to san francisco on amtrak's san joaquin.
• 
  california zephyr gallery 2008
  heading back to new york on the zephyr. lots of rockies pics.
• 
  feile and colin
  a dear friend was married in county sligo, ireland. and when i say dear, i don't mean expensive.
• 
  irvin coffee
  ladies and gentlemen, irvin coffee.
• 
  southwest chief gallery 2008
  big, big, huge gallery of pics from my 2008 journey on the southwest chief.
• 
  contemporary williamsburg architecture
  there is so much construction happening in williamsburg, you get dizzy just looking at all the new buildings.
• 
  amtrak - san joaquin
  a trip through california's central valley.

links:

• dry ice pits on mars
  
• sun diving comet causes huge explosion
  
• inside the operation at occupy wall street
  
• oracle screws taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars
  
• amazon’s kindle fire silk browser has serious security concerns
  
• magic mushrooms can change personality
  
• u.s. health insurance premiums climb faster in 2011
  
• bike lane opponents file appeal in prospect park west lawsuit
  
• in the shadow of saturn
  
• placekitten
  
• coming to an insurance plan near you: the $32,000 premium
  
• the rich respond to obama’s “buffett rule”
  
• netanyahu's messianism could launch attack on iran
  
• the us elections and pandering to israel
  
• the humble origins of marxism’s founding document
  
• le corbusier's concrete legacy in britain
  
• how good design can make users effective
  
• the weekly carnage
  
• bloomberg: paying higher tolls better than letting bridges fall down
  
• park(ing) day organizer arrested in miami
  
• is college worth the investment?
  
• obama unveils $3 trillion debt plan, tax hikes on rich
  
• go for launch!
  
• nyc tunnel tour, part 1: inside the second avenue subway
  
• l.a. air officials to vote on pollution trading
  
• the weekly carnage
  
• noam chomsky: it's not radical islam that worries the us – it's independence
  
• us resists calls to cut military aid to egypt despite protests
  
• republican debt repayment bill "unworkable": geithner
  
• moon and venus over switzerland
  
• powers of ten
  
• new york city sting spotlights ease of buying guns at shows
  
• protesters using live ammunition, rpgs vs. the egyptian establishment
  boston.com
• cairo in flames as cities become battlegrounds
  the guardian
• egyptians defy curfew: this is not a demonstration, this is a revolution
  haaretz
• mubarak refuses to step down, dismisses egyptian government
  haaretz
• unrest in egypt live coverage on reuters
  reuters
• the battle for cairo: 1000 activists arrested
  al jazeera
• gop senator favors cutting us aid to israel
  
• a long island tax cut backfires on the tea party
  
• thousands of sports fans drunk after football, baseball games: no shit
  
• n.y. man arrested for threatening to kill financial regulators
  
• risk of u.s. deflation ebbs as fuel costs climb, economists say
  
• a powerful law, unused in tucson
  
• going under: anesthesia closer to coma than sleep
  
• china's gdp is "man-made," unreliable: top leader
  
• david lynch's new song on soundcloud
  
• eu launches google investigation after complaints
  
• gop congressional leaders express concern with fed's decision
  
• "super superbug" ndm-1 spreads in europe
  
• why a republican house will make obama a better president
  
• intro to palinomics 101
  
• gop lawmaker: palin cost party control of senate
  
• controversial jewish speaker sparks jewish ire in germany
  
• ai weiwei under house arrest in china
  
• republican wave crashes in democratic california
  
• bush details approval of waterboarding
  
• probe sweeps past 'space peanut'
  
• human progress at risk from climate change – un
  the guardian
• republicans to attack healthcare law funding
  reuters

good things:

• aiga
• aljazeera
• arcspace
• bbc
• bikeblog
• bike commute tips blog
• bike hugger
• black panther newspaper archive
• bldgblog
• boingboing
• bottleneck blog
• boxesandarrows
• bozman website
• christian science monitor
• daily astronomy pic
• daring fireball
• der spiegel
• deep house page
• discogs
• guardian
• haaretz
• infinite state machine
• kevin kelly/cool tools
• lens culture
• le monde
• life without buildings
• media matters
• metafilter
• mnteractive
• munumu.nu
• newsmeat
• pedal pushers online: news about bikes
• plastic
• pruned
• red orbit
• reuters
• shadow government statistics
• slashdot
• streetsblog
• transportation alternatives
• washington post