by David | Apr 30, 2013 | culture
In the Netherlands, today is Koninginnedag, the official celebration of the Queen’s birthday, if not the actual birthday of the woman who is currently queen. Or rather, was queen. Today, Queen Beatrice abdicated the throne at the age of 75, after a 33-year...
by David | Apr 29, 2013 | economics, media
While researching a piece for the Currensee Blog about contemporary art as an alternative investment, I came upon an excellent piece on the Reuters blog from last year with the excellent title, Artnet’s silly indices. In this post, Felix Salmon opines that...
by David | Apr 28, 2013 | design, technology
No, really, who has got buttons? I was shopping for mobile phones and since the last time I did so, maybe a year ago, it’s like the industry has declared war on actual, real, physical, clicky, buttons. What’s up with that? I’m not talking about...
by David | Apr 27, 2013 | photo, urbanism
Standing in my yard Where they tore down the garage To make room for the torn down garage
by David | Apr 26, 2013 | economics, reading & writing, transportation, urbanism
The ever-alert Boston Business Journal reports that Barbara’s Bestsellers has closed but might get a new lease on life – literally – in a smaller space in another part of the station. The 417 square foot book stall appears to have gone to the dark (roast)...
by David | Apr 25, 2013 | design, media
Because I’m me, people send me stuff like this. Artist Wendy Gold uses “vintage globes” to make works she calls ImagineNations™. Apparently they’re quite popular. She does a similar decoupage treatment on maps, too. I like her warning: All...
by David | Apr 24, 2013 | eating, economics, urbanism
Last night I dropped in at Greater Boston Slow Money’s sixth Entrepreneur Showcase. As the organizers say, We will be bringing together investors, sustainable food entrepreneurs and leaders working together to rebuild our local food system. Learn about...
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 22, 2013 | eating
Well, it’s not summer, it’s barely even spring, but Captain Marden’s Cod Squad truck makes the frozen wind tunnel of City Hall Plaza feel just a bit like the beach. I had the crab cake sandwich, a burger-sized crabcake on a “Hazel’s...
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 20, 2013 | eating
At M3 in Somerville, $6 a half dozen.
by David | Apr 19, 2013 | design, working
The usually estimable folks at Apartment Therapy seem to have published their April Fools day item a couple of weeks late with a piece on home offices inside bathrooms. While the reporting is a gently mocking, the fact remains they’re covering bathrooms so...
