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

America's most unattainable housing is right by downtown DC.

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=34125

DC Metro's Structural Financial Challenges

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=34095

You know why I posted this

http://architectofthecapital.org/posts/2016/10/1/watergate-exxon

Civics refresher

Without further comment...

http://yalerecord.org/2016/09/20/you-dumb-motherfuckers-by-james-madison/

An army of map-makers | 1843

https://www.1843magazine.com/culture/the-daily/an-army-of-mapmakers

H/T LD

How Federal Employees Dress - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/a-style-guide-for-the-federal-employee/501431/?utm_source=atlfb

Wait, we have ruins here?

(Sarcasm,  people, just sarcasm)

https://priceonomics.com/why-do-tourists-visit-ancient-ruins-everywhere/

A Playground with a Tank and a Plane?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/remember-that-time-uncle-sam-gave-dc-kids-a-tank-and-jet-airplanes-to-play-on/2016/09/03/99a5ff80-7074-11e6-9705-23e51a2f424d_story.html

Crewmember of suspected trafficking vessel dies after interdiction by U.S. Coast Guard

http://coastguardnews.com/crewmember-of-suspected-trafficking-vessel-dies-after-interdiction-by-u-s-coast-guard/2016/09/02/

Well, that's Less Than Ideal...

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-healthcare-system-global-outlier-not-goo
d-way/

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The Red Line could have had amazing views over Rock Creek

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=33101

Nice Cargo Shorts! You’re Sleeping on the Sofa - WSJ

http://www.wsj.com/articles/nice-cargo-shorts-youre-sleeping-on-the-sofa-1470082856

Find out your personal Metro on-time stats with this tool

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/33036/your-smartrip-can-now-tell-you-your-personal-on-time-stats/

Former Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell delivered to the Philippine Navy

http://coastguardnews.com/former-coast-guard-cutter-boutwell-delivered-to-the-philippine-navy/2016/07/21/

Nicely done (but a long time coming )

Arlington's Fort Myer will soon be much more bike and pedestrian friendly

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=32924

USCGC BOUTWELL's History Preserved for (internet) Posterity

https://www.uscg.mil/history/cutters/378/Boutwell/Boutwell1968.asp

Great Example of Data-Enabled Civic Engagement

http://www.somervillema.gov/datafarm/

and don't miss these subordinate pages:

http://www.somervillema.gov/dashboard/daily.html

http://budget.somervillema.gov/

Because

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/

A 70 degree road trip

http://us-climate.blogspot.com/2015/10/70f-road-trip.html?m=1

Massive open-access database on human cultures created

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/uot-mod070816.php

There's a DC Metro Safetrack joke to be made somehow...

Europe's many alliances, reimagined as a metro system

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/how-european-countries-are-bound-together/

Thanks Bowsprite!

https://bowsprite.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/uscgc-boutwell-whec-719/

H/t CS

A Good Step Back to Appreciate a Building One Just "Passes Through"

Building of the Week: Terminal B/C at National airport

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=31214

The Vitruvian Man Action Figure

http://www.core77.com/posts/53861/The-Vitruvian-Man-Action-Figure

Binational Desert Line Railway set for Summer 2016 Construction

http://www.masstransitmag.com/press_release/12218561/historic-binational-agreement-reached-desert-line-railway-set-for-summer-2016-construction

Penguin Booze

You are welcome

http://eb-misfit.blogspot.com/2016/06/penguin-booze.html

Cooperation emerges when groups are small and memories are long, study finds

http://m.phys.org/news/2016-06-cooperation-emerges-groups-small-memories.html

H/T CS

teaching art

https://bowsprite.wordpress.com/2016/06/03/teaching-art/

Meet Terrapattern, Google Earth’s Missing Search Engine

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/meet-terrapattern-google-earths-missing-search-engine

On some missions, perspective matters - Well Said

Randomness of Birthright

http://justagirlindaworld.blogspot.com/2016/05/randomness-of-birthrights.html

A Coast Guard Arms Race

http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2016/05/23/a_coast_guard_arms_race_109386.html

 

Smithsonian American Art Museum and Kogod Courtyard

I am particularly a fan of the courtyard: a beautiful space

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=30781

Wait, the Humanities Aren't Useless?

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/opinion/sunday/to-write-software-read-novels.html

H/T AG

You know this one's for you...

Google's New Science Journal App Turns Your Android Phone Into a Lab Full
of Sensors

http://gizmodo.com/googles-new-science-journal-app-turns-your-android-phon-1777844992

The World’s Largest Solar Plant Just Torched Itself

http://gizmodo.com/the-world-s-largest-solar-plant-just-torched-itself-1777767880

What’s Happened to the Great American Dive Bar?

http://www.eater.com/drinks/2016/5/17/11686342/dive-bar-rent-hikes-gentrification

In response to a link from yesterday...

FiveThirtyEight said Metro catches fire 4 times per week. Fortunately,
that's wrong.

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=30884

Adding This to my Reading List

Exploring the Innate Art of Navigation, from Ancient Cults to London Cabs

http://www.outsideonline.com/2079661/finding-north-how-navigation-makes-us-h
uman-george-michelsen-foy

h/t AG

Metro Catches Fire More Than Four Times A Week

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/washington-d-c-s-metro-catches-fire-more-than-four-times-a-week/

Portugal runs for four days straight on renewable energy alone | Environment | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/18/portugal-runs-for-four-days-straight-on-renewable-energy-alone

Check Out These Colorful Posters of DC Neighborhoods

https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/05/17/anthony-dihle-colorful-posters-dc/

Unemployment is down. Gas prices are low. Why isn’t America shopping? - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/unemployment-is-down-gas-prices-are-low-why-isnt-america-shopping/2016/05/12/0a2d8d16-1857-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.html?postshare=3331463106206876&tid=ss_fb

To bid a Navy ship farewell, this DC bridge swung open for one of the last times

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=30728

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The Millennial Trap

https://blog.usni.org/2016/05/06/the-millennial-trap

Fifteen big shutdowns, and many smaller ones, will get Metro repairs on track

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=30712

H/t LD

Now this sounds like a good air-nomading adventure

Review: United's Island Hopper from Honolulu (HNL) to Guam (GUM)

http://thepointsguy.com/2016/05/united-island-hopper-review/

Multiple former USCG Cutters in this Navy

A Niger Delta Militant Group Declares War on the Nigerian Navy

http://cimsec.org/niger-delta-militant-group-declares-war-nigerian-navy/24958

Lebanon's Disappearing Rail History

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2016/04/trip-time-lebanon-disappearing-railway-160428105018442.html

On Being a Modern Nomad

Those who know me realize that, despite my immediate nomad-ness, the
contemplations herein are merely philosophical.

A useful exercise though...

What Packing for an Amazing Weekend Can Teach You About Your Financial Life

http://www.thesimpledollar.com/what-packing-for-an-amazing-weekend-can-teach-you-about-your-financial-life/

George Lucas' Wild Theory About the Narrator of Star Wars Makes So Much Sense

http://io9.gizmodo.com/george-lucas-wild-theory-about-the-narrator-of-star-war-1772296162

Map: Art Deco in Washington D.C.

Http://anthonyhennen.com/map-art-deco-in-washington-d-c/

The Non-Essential Critical Requirement

https://blog.usni.org/2016/04/13/the-non-essential-critical-requirement

Fat Leonard Is Still With Us

http://nextnavy.com/in-press-fat-leonard-is-still-with-us/

Paris Is Redesigning Its Major Intersections For Pedestrians, Not Cars

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3058685/paris-is-redesigning-its-major-intersections-for-pedestrians-not-cars

Emoji misinterpretation

Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji

😱

http://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-miscommunication-using-emoji/

When A Technology Fades (or when SHOULD it fade)?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35984185

h/t JM

The Craving for Public Squares

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/04/07/craving-for-public-squares/

Always a fan of the Peeps...

Provided without further comment

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/lifestyle/peeps-diorama-contest/2016/?tid=a_inl

The New Geographer

Applying Social Networking tools to the mapping of human migration.

http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/03/pentagons-cartographers-are-mapping-syrias-exodus-thanks-social-media/126808/

h/t AG

How am I Not Aware of This Until Now?

http://www.lajollamapmuseum.org/

Penn Station and the Nine Circles of Hell

http://tracking.feedpress.it/link/10522/2868195

Mothers Against Drunk Driving Should Also Be Against Zoning

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/1/11/mothers-against-drunk-driving-should-also-be-against-zoning

GREAT engaged social media by BART

It is framed as a meltdown, but it is a very engaged, sincere making of key
talking points for a system facing challenges.

#dontbedcmetro

http://gizmodo.com/i-would-like-to-buy-a-drink-for-the-poor-soul-who-ran-t-1765477706?

Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell decommissioned after more than 47 years of service

http://coastguardnews.com/coast-guard-cutter-boutwell-decommissioned-after-more-than-47-years-of-service/2016/03/16/

USCGC BOUTWELL (WHEC 719) 48 YEARS OF SERVICE

http://www.uscg.mil/announcements/ALCOAST/094-16_ALCOAST.txt

Ah, the beauty of imperfection

http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2016/03/perfectly-imperfect-the-art-of-making-a-connection-with-an-audience.html

Not for the faint of heart

But for those of us who serve in the field, worth the read...

http://bigironbegfish.blogspot.com/2016/03/death-severe-injury-and-survivors-guilt.html

The story of the helicopter that saved 22 sailors from burning ships was forgotten. Until now. - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/burning-ships-a-rescue-and-a-place-in-the-smithsonian-for-a-coast-guard-aircraft/2016/03/04/3edf7b84-d9ad-11e5-925f-1d10062cc82d_story.html



H/t LD

Interesting Opportunity for Low-Cost repurposing of "dead" PC's & Laptops

This post discusses how this is being used to expand Computer Access in Schools:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/17/11030406/neverware-google-chromebook-chromium-os-education-microsoft

This is also available to individuals (and yes, I will be test-driving on an "old" laptop of my own).

http://www.neverware.com/

This Looks to be Big, Big Data

I am going to need some time to absorb the implications and potential uses for this effort.

http://gdeltproject.org/

Amusing for sure, insightful metaphor?

You be the judge:

Neko Atsume: Cat Collection Game or Silicon Valley Human Resources
Simulator?

http://tracking.feedpress.it/link/10522/2542781

Developing Naval Guileists

http://blog.usni.org/2016/02/08/developing-naval-guileists

On keeping perspective regarding your role

Not everyone nor everything is vital.

And tip your servers!

http://iambeggingmymothernottoreadthisblog.com/2016/01/23/the-snow-must-go-on/

Bars and Pubs at the End of the World

For some at the bottom of the list, we are stretching the definition quite a bit...but I still intend to give as many of them as possible the opportunity to end up on my "recommended places" map;remember, nothing makes the map unless I have actually been there!

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/essential-guide-to-bars-at-the-end-of-the-world

Good points from a Familiar Source

http://www.informationdissemination.net/2016/01/thoughts-on-farsi-island-incident.html

Warfighting Navies Need Fleet Trains

http://nextnavy.com/warfighting-navies-need-fleet-trains/