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The Bay Line apartments?

An interesting proposal to turn the soon to be replaced Bay Bridge into a floating apartment and park complex. Really great idea even if it doesn’t come to pass it should make us consider what we can do with older pieces of infrastructure. Photo via BLDGBLOG: The Bay Line.

Posted on September 21, ’09

Please just link to the study

From the otherwise stellar Seed Magazine article on organic foods:

So here we have a nicely delimited study of available research with rigorous standards and a fairly worded conclusion, all publicly available to download and read on the FSA website.

Well if it’s so publicly available and downloadable then why can’t you take the time to link to it? The author (web editor?) took the time to go through and link to such blogs as Food Politics, Matthew Yglesias, and more but linking to the study that the article centers around? No, that’d be too much to ask.

Posted on August 14, ’09

Oregon’s Painted Hills

Gorgeous photo and I love the cloud directly above the hill. Note: This is also the first test post seeing if my in progress theme to mesh Tumblr and WordPress works.

Oregon’s Painted Hills on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

Posted on July 16, ’09

Build them to last – time for new urban development

I found this today via Andrew Sullivan’s blog. Well put together video explaining the need for sustainable urban development. Not only would this be something that would be better for the earth, but it would lend itself to greater human communities and probably make everyone a happier person. Watch it!

Posted on May 21, ’09

Bookmarks for April 12th

In order to share what I’ve found to be useful/interesting/etc. while browsing around below are my links for April 12th. You can find my full set of bookmarks at my Delicious account.

  • China Outlines Plans for Making Electric Cars (NY Times) – An article (4/10/2009) from the New York Times about China’s push to create electric car technology. It’s interesting and could actually see more success in China than other countries. They make the point that since many Chinese are still buying their first cars they have less of a preconception about what a car is and what a car needs to do. Seems as though Americans might be too stuck in their 200+ HP mindset to accept electric cars for a long while.
  • django-newsroom – Google Code – An interesting project to create a newspaper-friendly install of django. Sounds like it has some interesting concepts behind it. Seems to be more appropriate for news than a WordPress install. Note to self: learn django and write a theme for it. (via @danielbachhuber)
  • Thousand Yard Stares: Ruins and Ghosts of the Battle of Peleliu – A great piece written by someone who traveled to Peleliu recently. The island was the site of heavy activity during WWII and only became fully independent in 1994. Apparently the South of the island is still littered with pieces of WWII gear and equipment. The photos look incredible.
Posted on April 12, ’09