Random Articles

• Paralympics: Wired, Olympics: Tired  If para-athletes continue to innovate and set records like this - space technology knees and backflipping wheelchairs - it’ll be their games, not their fully-able-bodied counterparts’, that will be the more inspiring viewing. (thanks to Boing Boing for the pointers)
• First Green Light for High-Speed MSP - MKE - ORD AMTRAK Big thanks to Tom Elko over at the Minnesota Independent for bringing me the best transit news I’ve heard all year. “The House of Representatives easily approved the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act….legislation authorizes $14 billion in appropriations to modernize and expand passenger rail…includes $850 million in grant money to fund high-speed rail initiatives.” The promise
• Look + See: Curation in Eyewear I just picked up a new pair of glasses from George over at Look + See Eyecare in Minneapolis. Until I found Look + See, I was weary of eyewear places. It was a classic case of the paradox of choice. Lots of potential options and difficulty discerning differences without trying on every pair in the
• For me, it’s numbers For me, it’s numbers 10, 17, 5 - in that order.
• The Newest Urbanist Congrats to Sam & Jen on the arrival of Joe Urban Jr..