by David | Jun 29, 2009 | design, transportation, urbanism
Last week I spent some time in NYC, almost all of it on the West side, upper, middle and lower. As usual, I took the subway, and along the way I noted two ends of the lifecycle of transportation: the birth of a new station on the 7 line, and the rebirth as a park of...
by David | Jun 7, 2009 | eating, science!
I was half-listening to the radio and I was pretty sure I heard the announcer say, “blah blah blah red tide blah blah surf clams and carnivorous snails…” Carnivorous snails?? On the rampage and out for blood, causing the tide to run red?? OK,...
by David | Nov 29, 2008 | photo, technology
If you’ve been following my turgid dissertation on choosing a compact digital camera for photographing food in restaurants, you know that we’re up to the final chapter on the camera part. macro focusing or closeup mode (or “food mode”) a wide angle lens a...
by David | May 21, 2008 | science!, transportation
From the excellent virtual pages of Strange Maps comes this ducky item. On January 10 [1992], a container holding almost 29,000 plastic bath toys spills off a cargo ship into the middle of the Pacific Ocean and breaks open. The unsinkable toys, which were en route...
by David | Jan 22, 2008 | media, reading & writing, working
I was starting to worry that the market for paid search was getting as crowded and overheated as email marketing has become. People were subjected to my “reaching out vs. being found” lecture (PPT slides available on request) several times per week. When...
