- City Street Orientations around the World – Geoff Boeing
Interesting visualtation of the direction orientation of streets in major cities. Sydney and Melbourne stand out as interesting oddities, having the planned nature of cities built mostly in the last few hundred years, but with some oddities. Beijing also revealed as suprisingly modern.
Tag: cities
Bookmarks for May 29, 2014
- 10 Books That Could Change the Way You Understand Modern Cities
OK, I think I may need to pick up a few of these, so just noting for future reference.
Bookmarks for June 28, 2012
- The Important Lessons Imparted By Subway Steps | Best Of MetaFilter
A life lesson for those of us that design and build things, be they physical or virtual.
- polis: Elements of Urban Housing Design: A Walker's Perspective
Food for thought when designing fictional environments.
Bookmarks for June 6, 2012
- 6.46 million hashed LinkedIn passwords reportedly leaked online | The Verge
Pay attention, this one's very very important: if you use linked.in, then you need to change your password, *right now*. And they you need to change the password on any accounts you have on any other online sites that use the same password, because it's just been made public, paired with your email address.
- The world's worst password requirements list
Some of these are mind-blowing. Security is a compromise between usability and safety, whch is why you get password requirements like "must contain mixed case and a number" of things like that, but most of these decrease usability without increasing safety.
- Limerence – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"An involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated"
- cityofsound: Essays: An edible urbanism
The design of street food culture.
Bookmarks for October 7, 2011
- cityofsound: Sketchbook: Melbourne Smart City, for City of Melbourne/C40 Cities (incl. a note on why it's easier to crowdsource a revolution than a light-rail system)
If you want to understand how the cities you are going to living in in ten years time are being built, this is a good place to start.
Bookmarks for September 21, 2011
- Visible Cities – Ludocity
This sounds like it was a brilliant game. I wish I'd been there and been able to play.
- The Transformers at dConstruct 2011 – Hubbub
The City and The City, Baarle-Nassau, the recent riots in London, overlapping worlds, social stratification, and the role of (different aspects of) games. I wish I was this smart. Go and read it.
Bookmarks for October 21, 2010
- The Right To The City
"The right to the city is not merely a right of access to what already exists, but a right to change it after our heart’s desire.”
- China Mieville: Letter to a Progressive Liberal Democract
I wish I had his way with words.
- apiphile: If it helps, try to imagine I am less of an annoying git and more of a conduit for wisdom
Del, on writing with clarity and purpose. I would like to forcefeed this to oh, really, everyone. Including myself.
Bookmarks for October 13, 2010
- the creative internet (106 things)
Possibly the single biggest and most interesting time-suck I've seen on the internet to date. I've run across a lot of these things before, individually, and the ones I know are very awesome, which makes me think the rest of them will be too. One to sit down with when you've got time to spare, and want to be blow away by the artistic cleverness of others.
- Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex « OkTrends
I adore OKTrends (OKCupid's stats analysis blog) out all measure. Especially when they prove bigots wrong with y'know, actual facts.
- Locals and Tourists – a set on Flickr
Photography heatmaps for various cities – things tourist take photos of compared to locals. Fascinating stuff.
Bookmarks for August 24, 2010
- Archipelago | URBAGRAM
Heatmaps for the city. Ten kinds of awesome.
- Setting Up Twitter Bots with OAuth
This will be useful in the near-to-medium future.
Bookmarks for June 3, 2010
- AndrewBlum.net: Local Cities, Global Problems: Jane Jacobs in an Age of Global Change
Interesting piece about the mapping of digital community to real-world local-level community.