November 2010
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Design*Sponge » Blog Archive » greenville city... →
Nov 30th
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Nov 30th
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Nov 30th
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Nov 27th
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Nov 27th
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Acoustic Archaeology Yielding Mind-Tripping Tricks... →
Researchers are uncovering the secrets of ancient civilizations who built fun house-like temples that may have scared the pants off worshipers with scary sound effects, light shows and perhaps drug-induced psychedelic trips. The emerging field of acoustic archaeology is a marriage of high-tech acoustic analysis and old-fashioned bone-hunting. The results of this scientific collaboration is a...
Nov 27th
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Abandoned Communities →
Since the Middle Ages thousands of towns, villages, and other human communities in Great Britain have been abandoned. Some places have been abandoned at a single point in time, while others have been gradually depopulated until there was no-one left. In some cases the forces of nature have made a major contribution to the abandonment, but more often economic and social changes have caused people...
Nov 27th
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Nov 26th
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Nov 26th
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“Opting out of Google Maps’ Street View in Germany will blur the image of your...”
– German Vandals Throw Eggs At Houses That Opt Out Of Google Street View | Popular Science
Nov 26th
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BLDGBLOG: Stratigraphies of Infestation →
Nov 26th
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Fascinating urban mysteries, explained - Travel... →
Slide show: We unravel enigmas of the city, from the pink faces of Paris to a Virgin Mary under a Chicago underpass
Nov 22nd
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The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » Replay:... →
Nov 20th
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Nov 19th
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Nov 19th
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Funny Area 51 "user reviews" on Google Maps -... →
In the tradition of the sarcastic “user reviews” of Gristedes milk on amazon, these user reviews of Area 51 on Google maps are comedic gold. Example: “Spaceship TOWED Never park your spaceship nearby. I had a permit (and was legally parked), and they still towed!”
Nov 19th
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The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » Are People Really... →
I think this analysis shows that we can’t fall into simplistic notions around people fleeing regions. It would appear that the opposite may in fact be true. People are stuck in them – either because they don’t want to leave or because they can’t. I’ve got to believe at some level that recovery means boosting the human capital circulation factor – in and out – significantly. I think these...
Nov 19th
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Detroit Learns From Turin →
Mayor visits “the Detroit of Europe.”
Nov 19th
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Nov 16th
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50 unknown bars | The bars issue 2010 - Time Out... →
Nov 15th
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Around the World in 80 Clicks: A Digital Map of... →
The jaunts range from the expedition of Lewis and Clark to the flight of Charles Lindberg to my personal favorite, the global circumnavigation of Ferdinand Magellan. The fictional journey of the Pequod, from Moby Dick, is even here too.
Nov 15th
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Video: Meet Holly Hawthorne of Holly’s Tamales | NOLA.com Via GK.
Nov 13th
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Nov 12th
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Woodblock printing on old maps | Bangback
Nov 11th
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Zagat Announces Food Truck Tracking Site - PSFK →
Nov 11th
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Nov 10th
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Nov 10th
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“The steel collapse decimated Pittsburgh and its region, taking with it nearly 1...”
– The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » Pittsburgh and the Magic of Failure by Ben Schulman
Nov 10th
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Lyle Lovett Tapes Last ACL TV Episode In Studio 6A... →
In early 2011, the show will move into its new digs downtown at the W Hotel.
Nov 10th
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Nov 10th
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Exploring Life In Vertical Suburbs Around The World - PSFK Out My Window Out My Window is a documentary exploring the condition of the modern urban world, through stories told by a few of the countless number of people living within high-rises across the globe. The documentary is viewed by means of an interactive web interface, containing 90 minutes of content that visitors explore by diving...
Nov 10th
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Nov 10th
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The Best Hotel Bars in the World (with Video) →
Nov 7th
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DJ Screw’s Legacy - Seeping Out of Houston, Slowly... →
Screw music also remains vital to the fabric of Houston. The shop DJ Screw founded, Screwed Up Records & Tapes, still sits on Cullen Boulevard, with the same posters and list of available tapes (now double CDs) that have been there for years. The University of Houston library system has begun to collect artifacts of the DJ Screw era. [Thx B.Z.]
Nov 7th
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Nicaragua Raids Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps →
An error on Google Maps has caused an international conflict in Central America. A Nicaraguan military commander, relying on Google Maps, moved troops into an area near San Juan Lake along the border between his country and Costa Rica. The troops are accused of setting up camp there, taking down a Costa Rican flag and raising the Nicaraguan flag, doing work to clean up a nearby river, and dumping...
Nov 7th
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Kickstarter - "We Won't Bow Down" →
Nov 6th
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Catie Newell’s Salvaged Landscape Reclaims an Arsoned Building in Detroit - Core77: “Demolition of this severely damaged house was imminent, but instead of a traditional tear-down, Newell removed the charred wood timbers from the frame of the house and stacked them on their sides to form an outside wall that extends to become a moody passageway inside. The surface highlights the...
Nov 4th
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Nov 4th
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“Try to find the location seen in the picture in the upper right within the fixed...”
– http://vfyw.ve.n862sfdm.vesrv.com/ Really hard.
Nov 4th
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“It isn’t often that you throw a party for a bathroom fixture. But the porcelain...”
– Second item, Paul Lukas account of party for 100th anniversary of Old Town’s urinals. Uni Watch » And Then There Were Three
Nov 3rd
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Nov 2nd
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Mayor Mitch Landrieu, inspectors kick off blight... →
Nov 2nd
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