The Geotaggers’ World Atlas: San Francisco by Eric Fischer
The different colors represent different modes of transportation: Black is walking (less than 7mph), Red is bicycling or equivalent speed (less than 19mph), Blue is motor vehicles on normal roads (less than 43mph); Green is freeways or rapid transit. Lines never looked so cool.
via http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/05/24/beauty-in-vectors/
Toyota backing Tesla, NUMMI in SF Bay to build Model S
“California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda held a joint press in Palo Alto, California to announce that the two companies would be collaborating on electric vehicle development and production, with Tesla will taking over the recently closed NUMMI factory in Fremont, CA to produce the Model S sedan.”
Awesome for Tesla, awesome for cars, awesome for the Bay Area.
ThinkProgress has obtained a PowerPoint document which reveals how the telecom industry is orchestrating the latest campaign against Net Neutrality. Authored by representatives from the Atlas Network — a shell think tank used to coordinate corporate front group efforts worldwide — the document lays out the following strategy:
– Slides 7-8 calls for the campaign to target “libertarian minded internet users and video gamers” and “social conservative activists” with anti-government messages and a rebranding of net neutrality as “Net Brutality.”
– Slide 9 calls for a strategy of creating a Chinese blog to compare net neutrality to Chinese government censorship, outreach via social networking platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
– Slides 10-11 detail how representatives met at Grover Norquist’s infamous “Wednesday morning meeting” to orchestrate the new campaign. Norquist is known to use his Wednesday meetings to plot strategy and conservative coalition building towards lobbying goals.
The PowerPoint was created on April 14th, shortly before the campaign website officially launched. The “Net Brutality” website relies heavily on Americans for Prosperity sources, as well as a website called NetCompetition.org — which is openly funded by the American Cable Association, At&T, Comcast, and the US Telecom Association.
Think Progress » Telecoms’ Secret Plan To Attack Net Neutrality: Target Video Gamers And Stoke Fear Of Chinese Censorship (via rafer) (via mikehudack)
EDIT: The Powerpoint is here, if you are interested…
Glee cast - Rolling Stone by Mark Seliger, April 15th 2010
So, I can’t really say I care too much about Glee, or its cast. I have seen an episode, and while I recognize it as somewhat interesting and well-done, I am far from the demographic.
So, why am I reblogging this? Because there is something seriously amiss with the foot of the blond woman on the left. Look at that red shoe. Nothing wrong with big feet, but I think there is some unchecked gigantism here, and if my reblogging is necessary to get the word out and get this poor woman some help, then so be it.
