Author: Marcus Trimble
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3,000 Vélib’ Bicycles Stolen
The Independent reports that thieves have stolen 3,000 of Paris’s self-service vélib’ bicycles with sightings in Romania, and yes, even Australia, while another 3,000 have been deliberately destroyed or damaged. Tour de France indeed.
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Gehry’s Serpentine Construction Images
More construction images of Gehry’s Serpentine Pavilion.
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Guardian article on the role that the city of Baltimore plays in the series The Wire
Guardian article on the role that the city of Baltimore plays in the series The Wire. “Just as the detectives in the show look for the hidden connections between the city’s problems – tapping phones, following paper trails, deciphering gangster codes – so, too, the series maps the city’s hidden workings and reveals its underlying…
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Baarle-Hertog
Baarle-Hertog is a town in the Netherlands with 20 Belgian enclaves scattered through it. These Belgian enclaves, in turn, contain 7 Dutch enclaves within them.
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Wallpaper Design Directory 2008
Wallpaper Magazine has released their annual Design Directory for 2008. And gosh, who is that in the Australia section? To be honest, we are even more surprised than you are to see our office featured in such a venue given our extraordinary limited portfolio and track record, and are extremely thankful to the fine people…
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Walkscore
Walkscore tracks the walkability of US cities by calculating proximity to shops, restaurants, parks, schools and so on. The heat map interface for Seattle is pretty rad. So, when are service like this and EveryBlock going to make their way outside of the USA? [Update] Angus points out in the comments that, Walkscore does indeed…