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The Last Giant Leap
The Telegraph takes a survey, and finds out that life is a lot like XKCD: “In a survey, which reveals “deeply worrying” levels of ignorance about the Apollo space programme, which sent three men to...
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A Thousand Roads To Nowhere
This has been making the rounds recently, an article on how America is all infrastructure, and no people. It’s trite, but the old line about the difference between European and North American cities...
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Street Meat
Taste is so tightly bound to memory that I have a hard time believing that I can appreciate or even even taste food on its own, in a void of context. I wonder how many of my likes, dislikes, loves and...
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Toronto Downtown Cycling FAQ
My bike has been my primary method of transportation lately and gets me where I’m going often faster and invariably with less hassle than a car or even the subway. This summer has been mostly good...
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Global Portaling System
This came to me the other day when a friend of mine was talking about some acquaintances of theirs who’d driven across Africa, including through the Sudan: some people in some places really, really...
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Utterly Routine
This is absolutely, 100% typical. The police don’t even bother ticketing them most of the time.
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Breakfix Wayfinding
At the November 24th, 2011 TTC Town Hall meeting, it was noted that: The TTC has attempted to make incremental improvements as we provide new entrances / exits or elevators for step-free access. One of...
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The Knife Shop
In Tsukiji there’s a small, open-fronted shop called “Tsukiji Masamoto”, and it’s packed. The walls are lined floor to ceiling with knives in various wooden cases, row after row of every tool you’d...
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For about ten minutes this morning I was in a beautiful relationship. I bike to work in the morning, and I’m pretty aggressive about it. I’m one of the scofflaw cyclists people like to complain about...
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Historical Precedent
A while back in Architecture For Loners I wrote a bit about a how in-game architecture can fail a video game’s narrative if you’ve got the right eyes, the right incentives and maybe the right jetpack:...
View ArticleWhat I’m Talking About When I’m Talking About Biking
It’s a funny little quirk of Ontario traffic laws that the fine for killing a cyclist is often less expensive than the bike they were riding when they were killed. I’m a cyclist. I own bikes for...
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Tunnels
Toronto’s oldest subway line, and the newest. This the view east from the Bloor Station platform: … and this is the view north from York University:
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