Monthly Archives: September 2010

Red Hook Food Vendors at the Queens Museum of Art

The Red Hook Food Vendors have been cooking up Latin American specialties since 1974 at Red Hook Park in Brooklyn. It has been a longstanding tradition for food lovers to go enjoy delicious cuisine while watching fútbol games at the … Continue reading

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Working from home and online shopping can increase carbon emissions, UK report claims

ScienceDaily Sep. 22, 2010 — Shopping on the Internet or working from home could be increasing carbon emissions rather than helping to reduce them, a new report claims. The research reveals that people who shop online must order more than … Continue reading

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AE 21: Gable Houses

A few recent projects incorporate that most typological of architectural elements, the gable house. Of course each does it in a way that departs radically from the reality of the square and triangle diagram that most people at a young … Continue reading

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Volvo To Develop Battery That Is Charged By The Chassis

Volvo is working on an innovative new car battery that can be installed in the vehicle’s bodywork itself and is charged via the car’s own body panels. Dubbed The Tomorrow Car, the new model is part of a three-year, 3.5 … Continue reading

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Las Vegas Death Ray

By now, youve no doubt heard of the Las Vegas death ray: “The tall, sleek, curving Vdara Hotel at CityCenter on the Strip is a thing of beauty,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. “But the south-facing tower is also a … Continue reading

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Race and ethnicity mapped by block

Race and ethnicity mapped by block.

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Park51

Although the Park51 building would not be visible from the World Trade Center site, opponents of the Park51 project have said, among other things, that building a mosque so close to Ground Zero is offensive since the hijackers in the … Continue reading

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Do You Live in One of the World’s 15 Greenest Cities? | Environment | AlterNet

These metropolises aren’t literally the greenest places on earth — they’re not necessarily dense with foliage, for one, and some still have a long way to go down the path to sustainability. But all of the cities on this list … Continue reading

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The Death of Tachiyomi

Tachiyomi is a Japanese term that means reading as you stand, and it’s certainly something you tend to see a lot of when you walk into a convenience store here. Over the years I’ve been seeing more and more stores … Continue reading

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Google Maps Mania: Google Map of the Week

This Google Maps lets you discover who commutes where from any given zip code. The map uses data from the Census Transportation Planning Package and calculates travel times using the Google Maps API. via Google Maps Mania: Google Map of … Continue reading

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NOAA reports 2010 hottest year on record so far

The first eight months of 2010 tied the same period in 1998 for the warmest combined land and ocean surface temperature on record worldwide. Meanwhile, the June–August summer was the second warmest on record globally after 1998, and last month … Continue reading

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Food Truck

When I saw the post of ‘Food Trucks and Public Space,’ it’s only happening in LA. But, recent article by Edward L. Glaeser, ‘Free the food truck‘ plus related post, it’s now in everywhere. Boston, Chicago, LA… Mobile food distribution … Continue reading

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