"My boyfriend is an avid bicyclist who rides his bike to and from work every day. Despite my direct pleadings for him to purchase a bike helmet, he has so far refused to wear one. He claims they look silly and are unnecessary if you're a good cyclist. How can I convince him to practice proper bike safety without him feeling like I'm "cramping his style"?"

EINSTEINS FORMULA DETERMINATION INDIVIDUAL SPECIFICS RELATIVITY READS QUOTE ENERGY EQUALS MASS TIMES THE SPEED OF LIGHT SQUARED UNQUOTE SPEED OF LIGHT IDENTICAL SPEED ALL RADIATION COSMIC GAMMA X ULTRA VIOLET INFRA RED RAYS ETCETERA ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX THOUSAND MILES PER SECOND WHICH SQUARED IS TOP OR PERFECT SPEED GIVING SCIENCE A FINITE VALUE FOR BASIC FACTOR IN MOTION UNIVERSE STOP

reducing architecture to a number is sure to produce insane monsters.

down with architectural numerology

NYT abandons geography for this season's choose-your-own-adventure electoral college picker. Not sure how I feel about it.

Footage from inside the Gowanus Flushing Tunnel, insipid voice over.

This reminds me: I'm going to give up thinking for a year.

Magic Fire Hydrant

RIP Bill Lavicka.

Medium / Phases chart FTW

"It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate."

If the Islanders move to Brooklyn, they better update their logo to include all of Long Island, not just the suburban part.

Min/Median/Max household income for NYC locations of various supermarket chains.

"This is a list of calendars."

stamen OSM display layers

Public domain GIS datasets in WGS84.

south county and north county trails run more or less north south from Van Cortlandt Park to Putnam County.

Map-based US Census tool for job location and commuting data.

Author: Wolcot, John.
Title: Poetical Works of Peter Pindar, Esq.
Imprint: [Cincinnati: Printed by S. Freeman and Son., 1797]
Description: 2 vols. of 200 p. each.

Notes:
Proposals for printing the above were made this year.
Title and note from Evans.
This is a ghost of the best kind.

References
Evans 33238. OI 4. Wilkie 10. Morgan, R.P. Ohio, 617.

love finding things based on what people link to next to links to my site.

Io, discovered by Galileo Galilei on January 7–13, 1610, is the innermost of the four Galilean satellites of the planet Jupiter (Galilei, 1610). It is the most volcanically active object in the Solar System.

Links to various proposed chicago council maps.

saving to pinboard a page of items from fakeisthenewreal that people save to pinterest.

"schema.org is a collaboration by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! to improve the web by creating a structured data markup schema supported by major search engines. On-page markup helps search engines understand the information on webpages and provide richer results. A shared markup vocabulary makes it easier for webmasters to decide on a markup schema and get maximum benefit for their efforts."

Miles Hitchens - Christopher's younger brother, the VBA Arc-code-writing bandito.

"dancing with two left legs, two right legs, two wooden legs, two wire legs, two spring legs - all sorts of legs and no legs - what is this to him?"

"NetworkX is a Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks."

Writin' in a defunct format, oh yeah.

2011 Shapefiles hit the streets in December.

OBSERVATORY is an art and events space in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Founded in February 2009 and run by a group of seven artists and bloggers, the space seeks to present programming inspired by the 18th century notion of “rational amusement” and is especially interested in topics residing at the interstices of art and science, history and curiosity, magic and nature.

The Pop-Up Museum:
(n.) An exhibition about the past and future of the Gowanus Canal and the museum. Opens March 3 at Observatory.
(v.) An experiment in site-specific space activation, constructing potential futures using primary documents.
What should/can the Gowanus become? How are we becoming-Gowanus?
And what would a museum about this process look like? For eight weeks, we're going to explore these and other questions.

Prediction for 2012 election and/or minimum path to victory for Obama

Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living.

Measuring things: not for morons.

Page shows one of nineteen trillion simple maps of the United States, will show a different map the next time loaded.

A well-known theorem proves that with only four colors, any simple map of can be drawn so that no color touches itself. The next step is to ask how many ways there are to accomplish this simple task. For the contiguous United States, there are over nineteen trillion different maps that use only four colors. Even the tightest constraints can yield near-infinite variety.

These files were compiled from Census 2000 responses to the long-form (sample) questions on where people worked. The files provide data at the county level for residents of the 50 states and the District of Columbia (DC). Similar files containing data for county subdivisions (MCDs) in 12 states and counties in the other 38 states, DC, and Puerto Rico...

what am i, tree?

Really disgusting.

the people of Stack Overflow are wise and I am not.

NumPy is the fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python. It contains among other things:

a powerful N-dimensional array object
sophisticated (broadcasting) functions
tools for integrating C/C++ and Fortran code
useful linear algebra, Fourier transform, and random number capabilities.
Besides its obvious scientific uses, NumPy can also be used as an efficient multi-dimensional container of generic data. Arbitrary data-types can be defined. This allows NumPy to seamlessly and speedily integrate with a wide variety of databases.

Census data raw file download.

Why We Oppose Pockets for Women

1. Because pockets are not a natural right.
2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did they would have them.
3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them.

A grab bag of of programming, notes, shortcuts and tips on os x and etc.

Great write-up of the methods and means of SOPA+PIPA, and how they're doomed to failure.

sometimes i am 5 years old.

There are 102 Indian enclaves inside Bangladesh and 71 Bangladeshi ones inside India, with a combined population between 50,000 to 100,000. Inside those enclaves are also 28 counter-enclaves and one counter-counter-enclave.[1]

Excerpt from the end of his speech to the 1952 Republican National Convention:

"We, Negro Americans, sing with all loyal Americans:
'My country 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrims' pride,
From every mountainside,
Let freedom ring!'
That's exactly what we mean—from every mountain side, let freedom ring. Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from the Ozarks in Arkansas, from the Stone Mountain in Georgia, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia—let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States, but for the persecuted of Europe, for the rejected of Asia, disfranchised of South Africa and for the disinherited of all the earth—may the Republican Party, under God, from every mountainside, 'LET FREEDOM RING.'"

Most excellent.

flagged as fantastic
"We laughed for twenty minutes. I was tearing up, and Ronnie was wheezing like he was going to stroke out. I didn't even know where I was going with this idea. But it felt just so fucking wrong. In a good way. In a great way."

Bike share docks at scale in cities around the world.

This one isn't as good as shipfinder.co, but it has email updates.

artist with generative-ish triangulation paintings, actual generative stuff.

Yes to 30 foot ROWs. A thousand times yes.

huggy bear album DLs

Loaded Miso Soup
Fried Rice
Tomato-Rice Soup
Pasta, Beans and Tomatoes
Saffron-Mushroom Risotto
Bean Burgers
Spinach and Chickpeas
Brussel Sprouts
Sweet-Potato Stew
Roasted Squash with Kale

English Kills

(1836)