ExtendNY - New York City Extended
Sheer brilliance: taking the street grid of Manhattan and extending it to cover the entire world. For the record, I live near the intersection of east 11,303rd avenue and 63,475th street.
Tags: newyork
In a Brooklyn Loft, Twitter Stars Find Common Ground - NYTimes.com
A profile of those whacky Brooklyn Studiomates.
Brian Eno - The Big Here and the Long Now | DIGITALSOULS.COM | New Media Art | Philosophy | Culture
Brian Eno’s original essay on the origins of The Long Now Foundation. It is ten years old—a long time on the web and 1% of a millennium.
Humans are capable of a unique trick: creating realities by first imagining them, by experiencing them in their minds. When Martin Luther King said “I have a dream…” , he was inviting others to dream it with him. Once a dream becomes shared in that way, current reality gets measured against it and then modified towards it. As soon as we sense the possibility of a more desirable world, we begin behaving differently – as though that world is starting to come into existence, as though, in our minds at least, we’re already there. The dream becomes an invisible force which pulls us forward. By this process it starts to come true. The act of imagining something makes it real.
MTA.ME
The New York subway schedule converted into sound by treating each line as a string.
The Abandoned Palace On Beekman Street « Scouting NY
This looks like the New York equivalent of The Bradbury Building.
8-Bit NYC
Nifty old-school 8-bit tiles superimposed on OpenStreetMap data.
Design discussions: Paul Shaw and the NYC Subway: idsgn (a design blog)
"There is a common misbelief that Helvetica is the signage typeface of the New York City subway system. In this ‘Design discussions’, we talk to the author who has uncovered the truth (maybe) behind the story."
Missed Connections
"Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. I'm trying to pin a few of them down."
The New York Review of Ideas
The colour scheme is a little odd (though I expect this will change from month to month) but the typography is tasteful and the content is king.
http://schulzeandwebb.com/hat/
This is the best location visualisation I have ever seen.
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Tiki Bar TV's Johnny Johnny saves a woman from being killed on the New York subway. This is incontrovertible proof that outlandish cocktails can make you superhuman. Seriously though... bravo, Johnny Johnny, bravo!
Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site - New York Times
Excellent news from the New York Times: no more charging for content. Finally, I can link to NYT articles from blog posts (and del.icio.us).
overplot
This is an astoundingly brilliant mashup: Overheard in New York meets Google Maps. It's fan-bloody-tastic and remarkably fast for all the data it contains.
iPod on the Tracks - New York Times
A man risks his life for his iPod.
New York Hack
The blog of a New York cab driver.
pervert081805
Citizen justice, Flickr style.