Thise video of the OK tornado survivor finding her dog in the rubble is incredibly moving:

"Reality has a way of making speculative fiction come true, but usually not in the ways our storytellers predicted":

Center of tech is shifting from Silicon Valley to “application towns” like NY and LA (via @pandodaily @ideaxplorer)

This is chilling. #TriggerWarning RT @LibyaLiberty: The dangers of radical Islam.

The duck hanging out in the river next to Pedro Alvarez's HR ball is the best...

Apple strong-armed Random House into joining the agency-model scheme by threatening to block a RH e-book app:

and was super excited to see that tori foster's latest video work is about baseball

@mCenterDrexel distinguishes between territory and territoriality #mobilities13

@missstaceymay @gpe @mapsgis you know how I feel about the Yankees and babies, but check this out v @SabrinaAdrienne

holy shit! @bruces insanely compelling vision of the city of 2050. i cried. i laughed.

RT @Triphibian: Infographic: Is Your State's Highest-Paid Employee A Coach?

"This is the Royal Observer Corps. A unit specifically trained to watch the skies. To pay attention" @jamesbridle twitter.yfrog.com/oe6lfce...

Quick read: Why 'SimCity' has no parking lots, and other insights from the lead designer

Today is bring-your-(sick)-dog-to-work day.

Police helicopter firing a machine gun and chasing a car through Rio de Janeiro

"airports are beginning to realise that light and sound are powerful drivers of ambience within airport terminals" /

@ttoboyle Broadband and symbolic online politicking. RT @marksmithers: Brilliantly simple, yet effective web site

@scottcgustafson This site has some sweet pix & a video @Mariglynn & I made for our impending nuptials. Enjoy!

An anti-abuse ad visible only to children under ten or so:

"That time a giant airship darkened Toronto's skies" /

Pretty crazy-detailed 3d look at flight paths over Berlin neighborhoods from @juliustroeger @BMOnline

Tim Hetherington's 20-minute video "Diary"-- an edit of footage from 10 yrs of war reporting-- is amazing too

Yeahhh I'm into this: a book published in 1852, cited in the @OED, now vanished, penned by a mysterious "Nightlark."

Fourth-Amendment-Free Zone stretches 100 miles from the border #C21dsd

I did a video for something eBay is making, for your gadgets. It’s still in beta but they said I could show you.

“Writing is [like] having to reverse-engineer a meal out of rotten food.”

RT @paleofuture: The Great Baltimore Space Program of 1928

Space junk could be the next property boom: #TEDxSydney

@TxDocDRM @PatrickMcEnroe 2009: 80 bicycle deaths to 355 firearms. 2008: 84 to 376 2007: 94 to 398 2006: 102 to 409

This site provides a guide to color design for information visualization. It includes

- a step by step process for designing color usage in complicated interface graphics
- two detailed examples of design of aerospace displays
- a new color selection tool to support the recommended design process
- information about color usage standards and guidelines
- information about applied color science, and
- reference resources.

@awoodruff @pinakographos Do you like the style from better?

Two big stories on informal infrastructures in the Times today: ,

Two big stories on informal infrastructures in the Times today: ,

Lines on the Earth, natural and human-made, in south-central Africa.

Airplane wreckage found in New York alley is from 9/11 jet, Boeing confirms

@amyannettely If you wanna see the tip of a massive sabermetric iceberg, you can do worse than starting here:

henri lefebvre interviewed on his relationship with the siuationists:

"In baseball there is an underlying eye for an eye mentality. A street order of balance that contradicts its poetry."

"the sports industry is no longer about making money by selling a product to its fans; it's about making money by using its product's popularity to extort cash from taxpayers."

Learn how to analyze data with R with Coursera's "Data Analysis" videos

My god, how did I not know how bizarrely 60s-modernist UC Irvine masterplan is? #pereira

Rick Ankiel is on pace to hit 79 HR, strike out 379 times, & walk ZERO times. His story is so improbably wonderful.

RT @spoocecow: yu darvish is cool as hell

@gpe Wishing you draft.

James Cartwright, formerly no 2 at the Pentagon, told Senate #drones panel: 'We are ceding the moral authority.'

"what’s dying is 'personal computing,' personal ownership of the means of computing—processors, software, data"

Critical and Radical Geographies of the Social, the Spatial, and the Political

(pdf)
c @lovekindstrand

RT @Cmdr_Hadfield: Berlin at night. Amazingly, I think the light bulbs still show the East/West division from orbit.

"the Obama DOJ exploited and radically expanded the very narrow "public safety" exception to Miranda" /

British Airways makes 747 collage out of objects loaded onto 747 (nut bags, blankets, seatbelt extensions)

Amb Gandalovic supports West's Czech-Texan community by day,
Czechsplains Chechnya by night.

Amb Gandalovic supports West's Czech-Texan community by day,
Czechsplains Chechnya by night.

All but three of the senators who voted against gun control measures have received money from firearms lobbyists,

Gabby Giffords says no way to the gun lobby! But the drone lobby on the other hand #righteous

Gabby Giffords says no way to the gun lobby! But the drone lobby on the other hand #righteous

There's no way to trace Boston bomb gunpowder, thanks to the gun lobby.

“The only time I’m intimidated is when I work with amateurs.” —@SandraBernhard, [Great line.]

'We guarantee that crazed man after crazed man will have a flood of killing power readily supplied him.' - Wills

Jayson Werth was right: the Phils are closer to the Nats (1.5 games back) than the Braves are (4.5 games up).

American answers Delta’s expansion in Los Angeles with its own new push from LAX

Wanna do some futuring?

Manny Machado does thing.

The Work is the Death Mask of its Conception

Mr. Graeber, who says he gets along just fine with his colleagues in London—and, indeed, with most of his former colleagues at Yale—has his own take on what scholars mean by "collegiality": "What collegiality means in practice is: 'He knows how to operate appropriately within an extremely hierarchical environment.' You never see anyone accused of lack of collegiality for abusing their inferiors. It means 'not playing the game in what we say is the proper way.'"

David Harvey Essay Collection 1 | A centralized location for your leftist literature -

can I call Guantanamo Bay a concentration camp yet?

Former House Transportation Committee staffer going to work for Boeing

Exxon hates your free speech, tries to censor satirical ad.

Excellent post by @sarahkendzior on adjuncts and indentured servitude

RT @miniver: New York Times, exactly ten years ago:

"For Hawks, a Day to Sit Back and Say, 'I Told You So'"

Schadenfreude²

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Trends in Instructional Staff Employment Status, 1975-2011

To do today: close read the weather in Richard Scarry's A Day at the Airport for my upcoming #ASLE13 paper.

"benjamin points out that around 1840 it was considered elegant to take turtles on walks through paris.."

Good resource and list of resources.

@KillerMikeGTO The military-prison complex: US prisoners build missile parts for Raytheon & Lockheed to sell abroad

@davidgraeber: video we made to show global wealth inequality. The richest 300 ppl have more than the poorest 3 bil:

Developing on a public-owned airport, though, can be more difficult. The F.A.A. needs to approve such sales, because these airports receive government funds, and it typically likes them to stay open to keep traffic flowing smoothly. Yet there have been exceptions. In August, the F.A.A. agreed to close Rialto Airport, a two-landing-strip facility near San Bernardino, Calif., so it could be sold to developers. Although it is still in use, the airport, situated next to Interstate 210, a new freeway, will eventually have 2,500 units of detached houses and town houses on its 450 acres, according to Greg Lantz, Rialto's economic development manager. Prices for the houses have not yet been set. Mr. Lantz said the decision to close the airport was largely an economic one; it had been losing $500,000 a year as fewer flights — half of them by hobbyist pilots in small planes, and the other half by law-enforcement officers in helicopters — took off and landed. Fewer new pilots and a surplus of nearby airports contributed to the airport's demise. Most pilots will now use San Bernardino International Airport, five miles to the east, Mr. Lantz said. "It's not that our airport was subpar, but it didn't have all the amenities that people expect in a modern airport," he said. "And people in our community said, 'We would rather have you spending money to fix potholes.' "

Why isn't "Smiley Face" more widely known for being genius and hilarious and perfect at being what it is?

Study: Ontario International Airport value drops into the red: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin -

@sethrr Yes! If McCann comes back in decent form, our easiest out (vs RHP) is a dude who once did this: #stacked

Wherever you are, a ladder got you there. Choices:
1) Pull it up behind you.
2) Build more ladders.