May 2009
10 posts
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Nation’s Girlfriends Unveil New Economic Plan: ‘Let’s Move In Together’.
May 27th
Fox News: Top 50 Text Acronyms Parents Should Know →
Wow, I can only assume someone pulled a fast one on a slow reporter. Some of these are awesome: MOOS = Member Of the Opposite Sex FMLTWIA = F*** Me Like The Whore I Am Q2C = Quick to Cum NIFOC = Naked In Front Of Computer IAYM = I Am Your Master Sharp work Fox.
May 21st
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The Onion: Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire
May 20th
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TripTop NYC →
A contour map for travel time in NYC. Love it. (via kottke)
May 15th
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New Yorker on Franzia →
Great article in this week’s New Yorker about Fred Franzia (print/kindle/registration only, sadly): Fred Franzia owns forty thousand acres of vineyards, more than anyone in the country; crushes three hundred and fifty thousand tons of grapes a year; and his company, Bronco, has annual revenue of more than five hundred million dollars. Recently, Franzia celebrated the sale of the...
May 14th
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M.T.A. Approves Smaller Fare and Toll Increases →
As part of a financing deal approved by the State Legislature last week, the base subway and bus fare will rise from $2 to $2.25 on June 28 — instead of $2.50 — and the authority will avert layoffs. Commuter railroad fares will rise on June 17. … The cost of a 30-day MetroCard will rise to $89 (instead of $103) from the current price of $81. Obviously, I’d rather keep the...
May 11th
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NYC Subway Ridership by station →
My first stab at visualizing this data was a traditional cartographic approach, showing the overall growth from 1977 to 2006 at each station. This told an approximate story at the level of the whole the city, but did not leave much room for detailed exploration. Thanks to geoserver’s awesome new(ish) dynamic symbolizers functionality, it was trivial to plot the station-by-station time...
May 8th
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Chris Ware & Andrew Bird, for this American Life. Swoon! (via waxy)
May 6th
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Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’
May 5th
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White House will probe presidential plane PR stunt →
The taxpayer bill for Monday’s presidential plane flight over Manhattan was $328,835.
May 1st