Rachel and Anthony knock it out of the park . . . again!

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Are education and religion both only good in doses?

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The similarities between education and faith are explored in this essay from the HuffingtonPost HERE from it:

"[L]iberal learning is, after all, supposed to make us aware of how little we know. That's what Socratic insight is all about: we need to learn because we understand so little. Education should lead to intellectual humility as we become more aware of our own ignorance. Conservatives also prize education, after all, but they do so because it should deliver the lesson of intellectual humility. Education should . . .

How American Cities Commute (in graphic)

GO NYC!   Check out that blue band!!  How do we raise the salmony band?  MORE BIKE LANES!! (click the pic for larger)
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Great (silent) VIDEO about what it takes to feed NYC

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Penny gets a face lift! What a waste of time!

The penny is getting a cool new face-lift.  Actually, it's a tail-lift.  And who uses pennies anyway?  Well, here's the DEAL.
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STOP FACEBOOK FROM USING DIRTY COAL - petition!!

Click HERE to add your name to a petition asking the CEO of Facebook to rethink a decision to use a dirty coal plant for power and to ask him to consider the social message he could send if he publicly chose renewable energy.

Only takes 10 seconds.
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Meter Mades - a bike rack revolution

New York continues in its move to make the city an awesome place to bicycle, by announcing that it will turn 225 parking meters into BIKE RACKS!  It's hardly enough, with the biker to rack ratio at 30/1, but it's an improvement, and welcome!  The hoops will aparently bolt to the existing meter posts, and replace every other meter on certain streets.  The process saves $200/meter removal and sidewalk mending, so it's a cool design decision too.
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My year in unintentional video clips - VIDEO

Some fun I had with the useless clips that result from, in my opinion, a poorly designed camera.  Just for fun.

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Energy Positive Building in Austria

By researching the patterns of wind and sun in the building's location, designers have created a building with solar and turbine features that is beautiful and MAKES MORE ENERGY than it consumes.  Bravo!


Gallery HERE.
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Designs coming in for Korea's 2012 Expo - The OCEANS

Check out the slide show for this water-filled expo center by MVRDV HERE:

It's Time for BOROUGH QUIZ!! [gong!]

Back after another long winter hiatus, it's

Sights, Blights and Hi-lights from NYC's Fantastic Five!!

Any idea where these kids are discovering NYC's first NEW SUBWAY STATION in over 20 years? Answer and some more pix next week!

WHERE IS THAT SHINY NEW STATION?

Bronx
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Queens
Staten Island
France

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Hippo-crazy Repugs love the big scissors!

Maybe you remember the whole lot of right-wingnuts decrying the stimulus monies? Forecasting doom and horrible devastation? Refusing to accept help EVEN if it meant leaving their sobbing constituents square on the tracks?  Trying to entertain one another with their party loyalty by acting the penny-pinchers?  Doing EVERYTHING in their power to kill the Recovery Act?  Well, after the handouts were made and as the dust is settling, one image is coming into focus.  It's the one to the left -- Republicans who smacked the President in the face, are now taking credit for his work.  Remember these kids in school?  Liars.  Good news from ThinkProgress:

"In December, the Congressional Budget Office reported that the stimulus had successfully created up to 1.6 million jobs, and today, a report shows the Recovery Act will ultimately create 2.5 million jobs. Even the conservative American Enterprise Institute found that the stimulus had boosted the U.S. economy by 4 percent."

You know where you can stick those big scissors, sir.
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Hopey Changey Road

This is a little glossy for me, but some of that Hopey Changey stuff is ok once in a while, right?

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Levity with Sleeves.

Move over Snuggie Slanket, I've got something with fingers.  How hilarious is this?  Apparently everyone in Brooklyn has bad circulation.  I guess if it gets you to turn your heat down to a reasonable level at night, then it's a good thing.  I just think your laundry bill will go up.  Also, what happens when one suddenly decides to lie on one's side?  Douchequake!!!!
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I want to kiss Norway on the mouth.

After the rest of the world yapped about making a difference in Copenhagen at this year's Climate Summit of Nothingness, and then returned to their dirty countries and made no real promises at all, NORWAY has come out as a shining hero by announcing that they will indeed meet thier goals for curbing carbon emissions and pledges to CUT  CO2 EMISSIONS by 30% in TEN YEARS.  And that plan includes infrastructure for electric cars, using more biofuels, creating more bike paths, carbon capture, and more.

Kill the Gays Bill Explained -- Video

This is legislation born of AMERICAN CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY work and frightening leaders of the conservative movement in the US who travel to Africa and whip into a frenzy the already Draconian impulses of existing leadership in, frankly, backward societies. It should be stopped. At the very least, the US involvment must be stopped.

Great News for Moynihan Station! $83 Mil Secured!!

Finally a visible apology for the slaughter of the old Penn Station! Let's review. We toppled and shoved this into the Hudson:

Great from Keith

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Bike Lanes Around the WORLD

Some good, some great, some not so much:  GALLERY HERE

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Moving images from Haiti from Jonathan Auch

Some beautiful, some horrifying -- these are images from photojournalist Jonathan Auch's recent trip to survey and report the damaged lives of the Haitian people.  Link below:

http://www.jonathanauch.com/haiti-earthquake/index.html

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Fundamentalism is alive and well - or - Now who's the Army of One?

Don't Ask Don't Tell is going to be repealed.  The nation's two top defense officials are seeking it's end.  Heroes in our armed forces will no longer have to live lives of secrecy, and another shameful wall will come tumbling down.

“No matter how I look at the issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens,”

Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.  Amazing video after the leap . . .

Fun with Spending - Obama's 2011 Budget Interactive Chart

Interactive Chart --- >>  HERE   . . . try clicking 2010 budget to watch DEFENSE EXPAND and HEALTH SHRINK!!  Also click full screen so that you can get small enough to see the budget for RENEWABLE ENERGIES.

Cool progress on the LIRR extension to Grand Central

Exercise Win!!! Exercise Win!!!

Escalator FAIL, or Exercise WIN??

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . (video)

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be"
--Thomas Jefferson

Congratulations Wingnuts!!! Take out your OWN trash.

I wonder if these THOUSANDS of Christians are praying for trash collection?  I don't think Jesus does that, but Colorado Springs -- home of freakishly popular and dangerous fringe operations like Focus on the Family and the Teabagger Revolution, is beginning to see what it means to have no taxes to bolster public services.  From the Denver Post:

"More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday.

The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled.

Emergency! - or - I still have no idea what to do with this ominous cord.

We all know what this scary-looking dangly is, but WHEN the heck do you use it?