by David | Apr 23, 2013 | culture, design, science!, transportation, urbanism
This just in from Gothamist: reconfiguring the layout of subway car seats might give the cars greater effective capacity with the same number of seats. The thinking is that there are certain behaviors that lead to inefficient packing of subway cars, mainly...
by David | Apr 21, 2013 | culture, design, media, photo, science!, technology
I’m calling the peak of the Instagram reto “film” filters thing. Soon enough that visual language will be dead as cupcakes. Recently I poked fun at Apartment Therapy for calling bathroom home offices a trend, and they had three data points to...
by David | Apr 17, 2013 | design, eating, science!
At one of the frequent tastings a Ball Square Fine Wine, I noticed that they now stock Chat en Ouef and I also tasted a nice Bordeaux for a wooden box. Well, most likely from a plastic bag inside that box. But anyway, at $39 for 3 liters (that’s four regulation...
by David | Apr 13, 2013 | culture, design, eating, science!, urbanism
On Highland Avenue in Somerville, Boldly serving up breakfast all day where no man has gone before.
by David | Apr 6, 2013 | culture, reading & writing, science!
Via Jen 8 Lee for national poetry month, NY Times Haiku. I learned via professor N’s instant message that the estimable Jennifer 8 Lee tweeted a piece about the New York Times’ creation of a Haiku bot. I like that the Nieman Lab article felt compelled to...
by David | Mar 11, 2013 | design, science!, technology
Via Apartment Therapy and CNN Travel, news of a shower that aims to vanquish jetlag via light therapy. Why didn’t they think of this sooner? Just add some sunlight bright LEDs to a shower, what’s so hard? Sign me up, I say! I’m a big fan of light...
