Earth Is Just One Really Big Google Map

https://theawl.com/earth-is-just-one-really-big-google-map-955bdcb0e7fc#.9ox7lkntq

Where Can Ferries Succeed?

http://humantransit.org/2016/12/ferries-opportunities-and-challenges.html

A guide to giving your cats their annual performance review

https://hackernoon.com/a-guide-to-giving-your-cats-their-annual-performance-review-fbf14610305#.hdysugyyj

It hard to keep a city running when...

The folks who do so can't afford to live there and don't have realistic options to commute.  It isn't a new or unique problem (e.g. San Francisco), but this is another example.

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2016/12/wmata-dc-metro-service-cuts-maintenance-hours/511112/?utm_source=SFFB

Paintings Of Mecha Robots And Werewolves Attacking East European Peasants

Yes, you read that correctly

 

http://designyoutrust.com/2016/12/bizarre-paintings-of-mecha-robots-attacking-east-european-peasants-of-the-early-20th-century/

 

Being Busy Is Not Cool

https://theawl.com/being-busy-is-not-cool-b6b2cdcf8734?source=rss----898f60aebfa8---4

Star Wars, In One Chart

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/star-wars-in-one-chart/

Sounding the Alarm about Uber’s Impacts on Transit, and on Cities

http://humantransit.org/2016/12/sounding-the-alarm-about-ubers-impacts-on-transit.html

Flood risks - Houston

https://projects.propublica.org/houston-cypress/

This great tool will teach you about historic buildings

https://ggwash.org/view/61696/this-great-tool-will-teach-you-about-historic-buildings

Where I almost lived in DC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/dc-got-everything-it-wanted-out-of-citycenterdc--except-the-crowds/2016/12/07/26987794-9b9d-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html?utm_term=.b8b37795fbff

The Last Diplomat

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-last-diplomat-1480695454

Six maps that show the anatomy of America’s vast infrastructure - Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/maps-of-american-infrastrucure/

H/T LD

If you don't know of deadmau5, this will not make sense

deadmau5 Teaches Electronic Music Production

https://www.masterclass.com/classes/deadmau5-teaches-electronic-music-production

Some things one must share

Smithsonian Bug Expert By Day; Eccentric Tunnel Digger By Night

http://architectofthecapital.org/posts/2016/11/6/dupont-circle-tunnel-digger