Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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The Return of Oakland Crimespotting
Stamen Design’s visually rich and data-intense Oakland Crimespotting is up and running again. This is a huge victory for open civic data.
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Happy Birthday CXO
My precious little baby boy.
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Bulls & The Wire
Over at Sports in Five this morning I wrote of why these Bulls bug me so much: …it’s OK to get caught in the hallway with your keys, outplayed by teams with bona fide superstars on the roster, have your whereabouts sold to a rival so he can kill you. Just don’t go down flailing…
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What EveryBlock Means To Me
Today I helped launch EveryBlock, a Web site that filters an assortment of local news by location so you can keep track of what’s happening on your block, in your neighborhood and all over your city. We’re launching today in the first three of many cities– Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. My job at…
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“The Cat in the Hat Comes Back” – First Edition – Cover
"The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" – First Edition – Cover, originally uploaded by juggernautco. So I bought this book called "First Editions of Dr. Seuss Books: A Guide to Identification" so that I could determine if the books I bought over at Powell’s Books in 2000 were what I thought they were. They…