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» A Place for Cycles

Designed by Donald C. Paine Jr. of KGB Design Studio, this boldly shaped pavilion is a storage and repair facility for bicyclists. It is located to the west side of Union Station.

An interview…

very wet zombies on lamont st.

» Obese skunk addicted to bacon sandwiches

caro:

baconbaconbacon:

Crazy. Apparently his owners in England fed him 2 bacon sandwiches a day, and now he’s double his ideal weight

via charlottesweb

photo via buzzfeed

AND HIS NAME IS MR. BUMBLE.

» Poll: Environmental Involvement Tied to Empowerment, Confidence

Photo: C1ssou via Flickr
Now here’s a survey that goes beyond the same old same old questions and answers! It’s the Civic Health Index, brought to you by the National Council on Citizenship. The bad…

» Branding is dead, more or less

Here’s someone else saying branding is dead, this time at ClickZ: Branding Today: Why It’s Ineffective, Irrelevant, Irritating, and Impotent. Here’s the main point:

Branding that involves…

» Trapster.com: Sweet Revenge for Ticketed Drivers

Most new mobile phone applications are shrug-worthy. This one strikes me as genius.

Here’s the idea: Drivers report cameras, police waiting locations and other speed traps to website…

» Historic Trust Partners with Georgia Theatre

Donors who want to contribute to a fund to help rebuild the fire-ravaged Georgia Theatre can now make donations through the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. The historic Athens music venue…

“ Objective journalists – me included – need to place more emphasis on verifiable facts, rather than the wishy-washy he-said-she-said style that gives equal weight to claims that vary wildly in truthfulness. Even though it might upset readers who disagree, reporters should have the courage to say, “No, Mr. Protester, old people won’t be euthanized,” or “No, Mr. President, your plan is going to cost us a lot of money.

— Blake Aued: On the death of rationality It’s a shame that this needs to be said, but it does, and Blake says it well.

» Reader's Digest Set to File for Bankruptcy

To be honest, I kind of forgot about Reader’s Digest. Really, though, their mission—repeating and shortening media—is both redundant and essential in the context of social media. Too bad they just kept to their format. (I know that they’re just filing for bankruptcy—not yet folding—but I really can’t see anyone I know suddenly turning to Reader’s Digest for an interesting read. The magazine’s end is coming sometime soon.)

I had forgotten all about the San Francisco typeface from Macs back in the day.

Kickass

“ A country without an expectation of minimal artistic literacy, without a basic structure by which the artists among us can be awakened and given the choice of following their talents and a way to get to be great at what they do, is a country that is not actually as a great as it could be. And a country without the capacity to nurture artistic greatness is not being a great country.

— Rachel Maddow, speaking at Jacob’s Pillow Dance “PillowTalk”

» The March and Flow of Time

Chicago struck me like a hybrid between New York and Washington DC. The city is busy and grand like New York. But the physical…

never thought this would be the first piece to go

» Well, that's pathetic but expected

Former Athens-Clarke County Commissioner and current Rep. John Barrow voted against the health care compromise bill on the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Stay classy John.

Maybe if we stick in…