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Good people of Boston, define your neighborhood
The two guys that run the Boston map blog, Bostonography, are looking for crowd-sourcing help in their project to define the boundaries of the neighborhoods of the city. They’ve put together a handy-dandy mapping tool that lets you select a neighborhood and click around its boundaries as you see fit. I just did my neighborhood and will probably do a few more when I have time.
This morning feels like Fall… the only difference being that, instead of a looming Winter, we have an impending Summer. #win
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E=MC^2 in two minutes
Einstein’s proof of the world’s more famous equation, explained.
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I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened.
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another neighborhood stalwart is going down
It’s been in the post for a while now, but it looks like Hite Radio & TV, one of the last remaining stalwarts of the South End, will be gone sometime this summer. It’ll be too bad to see it go… it’s where I got by stereo second-hand around ‘04 and where I got it fixed a few years after that.
Is it a bit of an eyesore? Sure. Will I be sad to see it go?...
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http://inception.davepedu.com/
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“When we can celebrate and truly own what it is that makes us different...”
– Aimee Mullins; double amputee, athlete, actress, and artist. Listen to her story here.
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“Currently drafting legislation to make it illegal to play Sweet Caroline at...”
– some guy on the internet
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the best way to jump a bridge
The Spookworks Rally Team in the UK shows ten ways to jump a bridge… make sure you watch to the end. Yee-ha!
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foodies as the new hip kids
What used to be the fusty world of the gourmet has been transmogrified by Anthony Bourdain and the like into rock ‘n’ roll status. Or at least that’s what this NY Mag story purports. I can’t say I totally diagree. Like the indie rock youth culture (some call it hipster) of I-know-what-I-like-and-I’m-going-to-lord-my-great-taste-over-you culture has now found...
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The Flying Scotsman
I ride a bike everywhere, but I would never consider myself a cyclist. This is probably why I’ve never heard of Graeme Obree. Using a homemade, radical frame design that took cues from downhill skiing, he broke the World Hour Record (distance cycled in one hour) in 1994. It’s a pretty amazing story and a guy with a maniacally singular focus.
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Super Mario Brothers + Portal =
This is kind of great. It’s like NES geekery multiplied by Portal geekery… geek^2.
The Boundaries of Boston c.1896
My favorite Boston blog, Universal Hub, covers one of our oldest and least known laws… the requirement for municipal officials to “perambulate the bounds,” or walk their borders once every five years to make sure nobody’s moved the boundary markers. Good stuff.
http://www.universalhub.com/2012/jove-it-looks-good-day-it-was-carved
Note the Faneuil train station, which...
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“The kind of range that made that goal the envy of the North Korean space program”
– Men in Blazers podcaster Michael Davies about Frank Lampard’s remarkable free kick last weekend.
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“[One of the] world’s largest businesses acquiring a company with the same...”
– Hell for Leather magazine on today’s announcement that Audi just bought Ducati.
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good to see that thieves in Wellesley dress...
During the Boston Marathon yesterday a bank in Wellesley was robbed by a “a white male, possibly in his 30’s, 5’8”- 6” feet in height, wearing a light colored fitted baseball hat, sunglasses, a white button down shirt, khaki shorts and boat shoes.
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alternate titles for Dr. Strangelove
… from Stanley Kubrick’s notebook:
Doctor Doomsday
Don’t Knock the Bomb
Dr. Doomsday and his Nuclear Wiseman
Dr. Doomsday Meets Ingrid Strangelove
Dr. Doomsday or: How to Start World War III Without Even Trying
Dr. Strangelove’s Bomb
Dr. Strangelove’s Secret Uses of Uranus
My Bomb, Your Bomb
Save The Bomb
Strangelove: Nuclear Wiseman
The Bomb and Dr....
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mind games
We’d all like to forget the Tim Thomas White House incident from not-too-long ago, but it look like Washington Capitals fans will dredging it up to taunt Thomas during the playoff game in D.C. tonight… here’s a Caps website that has instructions for trying to get our goalie off his game with various Obama-related paraphernalia.
You know the drill. The big links below will...
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dear stats geeks:
An epidemiologist with too much time on his hands has taken his “cursory” stats aptitude and applied it to pop culture by doing a Hunger Games survival analysis.
As a student of epidemiology and economics I feel duty-bound to apply my cursory knowledge of statistics to the novel natural cohort presented in the Hunger Games novel, as documented by author Suzanne Collins. I present...
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http://breakinggifs.com/
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brave new world: the poultry edition
Nick Kristoff on the drugs chickens get in factory farms to increase productivity:
Let’s hope you’re not reading this column while munching on a chicken sandwich.
That’s because my topic today is a pair of new scientific studies suggesting that poultry on factory farms are routinely fed caffeine, active ingredients of Tylenol and Benadryl, banned antibiotics and even arsenic.
The...
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Watcha video essay on the spare visual style of The Wire.
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new data on MA's universal healthcare says it's...
A new report on Massachusetts’ healthcare reform is revealing. It appears that Massachusetts has achieved near universal health care coverage with only modest additional costs to state taxpayers.
Massachusetts has achieved near universal health care coverage with only modest additional costs to state taxpayers, according to a new study released today by the Massachusetts Taxpayers...
