Author: DXO
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Charles Simic is our new Poet Laureate, and that’s a good thing
Charles Simic was named our new Poet Laureate today, and I cheer. I haven’t been able to stand any of the previous ones in my lifetime, despite their dutiful nods to performance poetry. They’re hacks, in the main. Simic is the real deal. Here’s a snip of the NYT story: Mr. Simic, speaking by telephone…
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Regular users contribute mightily to CTA Alerts
I first conceived CTA Alerts, the wireless notification utility for service interruptions on the Chicago Transit Authority, as a rider-to-rider service in the absence of good top-down communication from the CTA. Since we started, however, the CTA itself has been the top poster of information, and all of it is quality stuff. Tonight, however, highlights…
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Abandoned bicycles – Viewing a problem – FixMyStreet
England is a great hotbed of community-oriented action sites that rely on data to make them go. Here’s Fixmystreet: What is FixMyStreet for? FixMyStreet is a site to help people report, view, or discuss local problems they’ve found to their local council by simply locating them on a map. It launched in beta early February…
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Pretty nifty generator
Here’s a handy tool you’d might like to have around on the Day After: VentureBeat » Trulite to release handy fuel cell for consumers Trulite, a Houston, Texas company, has developed a portable fuel cell for the consumer, contained in a box that powers everything from computer, to fridges and construction site power tools. Costing…
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Saint Francis of Assisi/Our Lady of the Angels Parish
Saint Francis of Assisi/Our Lady of the Angels Parish, originally uploaded by juggernautco. I started a new website project for Saint Francis of Assisi/Our Lady of the Angels Parish, a parish on the West Side of Chicago that is the remaining amalgam of 5 parishes, the other 4 having been closed by the Archdiocese over…