"NetworkX is a Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks."

Writin' in a defunct format, oh yeah.

2011 Shapefiles hit the streets in December.

OBSERVATORY is an art and events space in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Founded in February 2009 and run by a group of seven artists and bloggers, the space seeks to present programming inspired by the 18th century notion of “rational amusement” and is especially interested in topics residing at the interstices of art and science, history and curiosity, magic and nature.

The Pop-Up Museum:
(n.) An exhibition about the past and future of the Gowanus Canal and the museum. Opens March 3 at Observatory.
(v.) An experiment in site-specific space activation, constructing potential futures using primary documents.
What should/can the Gowanus become? How are we becoming-Gowanus?
And what would a museum about this process look like? For eight weeks, we're going to explore these and other questions.

Prediction for 2012 election and/or minimum path to victory for Obama

Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living.

Measuring things: not for morons.

Page shows one of nineteen trillion simple maps of the United States, will show a different map the next time loaded.

A well-known theorem proves that with only four colors, any simple map of can be drawn so that no color touches itself. The next step is to ask how many ways there are to accomplish this simple task. For the contiguous United States, there are over nineteen trillion different maps that use only four colors. Even the tightest constraints can yield near-infinite variety.

These files were compiled from Census 2000 responses to the long-form (sample) questions on where people worked. The files provide data at the county level for residents of the 50 states and the District of Columbia (DC). Similar files containing data for county subdivisions (MCDs) in 12 states and counties in the other 38 states, DC, and Puerto Rico...

what am i, tree?

Really disgusting.

the people of Stack Overflow are wise and I am not.

NumPy is the fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python. It contains among other things:

a powerful N-dimensional array object
sophisticated (broadcasting) functions
tools for integrating C/C++ and Fortran code
useful linear algebra, Fourier transform, and random number capabilities.
Besides its obvious scientific uses, NumPy can also be used as an efficient multi-dimensional container of generic data. Arbitrary data-types can be defined. This allows NumPy to seamlessly and speedily integrate with a wide variety of databases.

Census data raw file download.

Why We Oppose Pockets for Women

1. Because pockets are not a natural right.
2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did they would have them.
3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them.

A grab bag of of programming, notes, shortcuts and tips on os x and etc.

Great write-up of the methods and means of SOPA+PIPA, and how they're doomed to failure.

sometimes i am 5 years old.

There are 102 Indian enclaves inside Bangladesh and 71 Bangladeshi ones inside India, with a combined population between 50,000 to 100,000. Inside those enclaves are also 28 counter-enclaves and one counter-counter-enclave.[1]

Excerpt from the end of his speech to the 1952 Republican National Convention:

"We, Negro Americans, sing with all loyal Americans:
'My country 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrims' pride,
From every mountainside,
Let freedom ring!'
That's exactly what we mean—from every mountain side, let freedom ring. Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from the Ozarks in Arkansas, from the Stone Mountain in Georgia, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia—let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States, but for the persecuted of Europe, for the rejected of Asia, disfranchised of South Africa and for the disinherited of all the earth—may the Republican Party, under God, from every mountainside, 'LET FREEDOM RING.'"

Most excellent.

flagged as fantastic
"We laughed for twenty minutes. I was tearing up, and Ronnie was wheezing like he was going to stroke out. I didn't even know where I was going with this idea. But it felt just so fucking wrong. In a good way. In a great way."

Bike share docks at scale in cities around the world.

This one isn't as good as shipfinder.co, but it has email updates.

artist with generative-ish triangulation paintings, actual generative stuff.

Yes to 30 foot ROWs. A thousand times yes.

huggy bear album DLs

Loaded Miso Soup
Fried Rice
Tomato-Rice Soup
Pasta, Beans and Tomatoes
Saffron-Mushroom Risotto
Bean Burgers
Spinach and Chickpeas
Brussel Sprouts
Sweet-Potato Stew
Roasted Squash with Kale

English Kills

(1836)

French flags flutter forcefully and fruitfully every Fall.

MY MILKSHAKE BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD

Bromley Map, 1907

1843

[Old map of Brooklyn and greater part of King's County, Long Island.] 177?

Map of New York City, Brooklyn, and vicinity showing surface & elevated railroads in operation and proposed.

General Plan of the United States Navy Yard New York NY Plan No 1

"...dedicated to realizing the most productive physical, cultural and economic development in Gowanus /// enrich its working and living communities ... with a balanced set of environmental & social profits, economic value and fiscal benefit."

Mr. Guy painted (at least) two winter scenes of Brooklyn. One is at the Brooklyn Museum, the other now at Crystal Bridges.

A plan of New York island, with part of Long Island, Staten Island and east New Jersey, with a particular description of the engagement of the woody heights of Long Island, between Flatbush and Brooklyn, on the 27th, of August 1776.

Know your LIRR.

mapping New York City's storefronts.

"What’s remarkable about all spontaneous urban plants is the fact that they require no human assistance to assert and maintain themselves in extreme, often volatile urban conditions, while providing the same ecologically performative benefits of traditional landscape plants and street trees. Rather than seek to discard and eradicate them, we now have an opportunity to harness their benefits and tell their histories."

"I run a paid bookmarking site. Every morning I wake up and dive into my vault of golden coins."

Bookmarking every pinboard blog post on pinboard feels tingly.

the Weekender's blinks are annoying

Only at point 1 of 8, already wish I was back at the GSD: "Urban studies has failed to investigate its own subject."

The webdesign learning curve is never flat

TV ownership down to 97%! Victory over the boob tube will come any day.

Great. Converts excel/csv/tsv data into HTML, JSON, MYSQL, XML, etc

New national emblem proposed (1960).

Pre-consolidation Queens

The particular space being occupied should not be fetishized, should not become the prize

van Vliet
The New Church at Delft with the tomb of William of Orange

HENDRICK CORNELISZ. VAN VLIET
Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, from beneath the Organ Loft at the Western Entrance, 1662

Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet
Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk at Delft

Emanuel de Witte
Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, 1615-1691/92

Gerard Houckgees
The Nieuwe Kerk in Delft with the Tomb of William the Silent