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sevensixfive: Soft Sites: Masonville Cove

"If Masonville Cove is anything, it is a place without original conditions"

baltimore writing landscape urban industrial hidden_patterns
december 2008 by fakeisthenewreal

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National Radio Quiet Zone

"established to minimize possible harmful interference to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, WV and the radio receiving facilities for the United States Navy in Sugar Grove, WV"

radio west.virginia federal astronomy military-industrial hidden_patterns
july 2008 by fakeisthenewreal

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TopoZone - NRCan SHAGANASH ISLAND (Ontario), Gull Islands, USGS Passage Island (MI) Topo Map
intensely_nerdy michigan map island hidden_patterns usa
january 2008 by fakeisthenewreal

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Gull Island, MI — Google Maps

Farthest point in lower 48 from an interstate. (appx 225 miles) (Lake Superior)

intensely_nerdy michigan mapping map google hidden_patterns usa
january 2008 by fakeisthenewreal

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The 42 sections of Levittown PA

Alphabetical city.

urban philadelphia planning alphabet hidden_patterns
september 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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First Chickens in Americas Were Brought From Polynesia - New York Times

Chicken bones from between "1304 and 1424" traced to Polynesian chickens. Thor Heyerdal in reverse.

chile food archeology history hidden_patterns news
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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The Unreality of Airplanes

wendell berry, contrails, flu pandemics

viajsguntzel air transport travel hidden_patterns weather
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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sevensixfive: The Ineluctable Modality of the Visible

stupidsmart: 'you just look for the part of the record where the reflections in the groove change, then you know you can mix it there.'

hidden_patterns music memory via:kio
june 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Sert, Josep Lluis, 1902-1983. The Josep Lluis Sert Collection: An Inventory.
hidden_patterns architecture history gsd
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Biology of Cities | TIME [Monday, Nov. 30, 1942]

Review of Sert's 'Can our Cities Survive?': "The Sert group propose to house the city's people in skyscrapers, surrounded by open space, ... [a] single solution for a modern city's two greatest dangers, congestion and bombing."

urban planning history boston book the_sadness hidden_patterns
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Étienne de Silhouette - Wikipedia

The source for the word. 18th c. French Controller-General. His progressive taxation policies made the rich complain that they had been 'reduced to mere shadows'.

person hidden_patterns france economics awesome wikipedia
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Get Off the Earth Puzzle

Are there 12 or 13 stereotyped 'chinamen'? Hugely popular puzzle from 1896/8, created by Sam Loyd. Subject of a Believer article a while ago. Created to market Bergen Beach!

puzzle history random stereotype brooklyn hidden_patterns
may 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Taryn Simon

Good photographer, crappy website (don't bother clicking, no pix)

photography art hidden_patterns person
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Bijection, injection and surjection - Wikipedia

Whoa: "This terminology was originally coined by the Bourbaki group."

math wikipedia collective hidden_patterns
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Benjamin Edwards: The World of Wal-Mart

World map of 'countries of origin for clothes in Wal-Mart stores.' visual ref: Boetti's quilt-flag-map

scale hidden_patterns map world capitalism viakanarinka
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Ancient lights - Wikipedia

"the owner of a building with windows that have received natural daylight for 20 years or more is entitled to forbid any construction or other obstruction that would deprive him of that illumination."

wikipedia law urban hidden_patterns awesome
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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BLDGBLOG: The Heliocentric Pantheon: An Interview with Walter Murch

Kopernik recapitulates knowledge encoded in the Pantheon.

via:kio hidden_patterns awesome architecture rome space interview
april 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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a u t o g e n a p r o j e c t s

Danish artist in the UK. New acoustic mirrors facing each other across the Eng Channel, Christiana research, more

art uk hidden_patterns viadavidrex person
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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F. Holland Day - Photography - Review - New York Times

Fred Holland-Day photographed a young Khalil Gibran. zraxed!

art news photography history hidden_patterns religion
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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U.S. Frequency Allocation Chart

love that it's logarithmic

gov physics mobile hidden_patterns visualization usa
march 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Crypto-Judaism - Wikipedia

Evidence that Spanish Jews emigrated to New Spain (esp New Mexico) c. 1590s-1600s

wikipedia usa mexico spain colonialism history religion hidden_patterns
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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LibraryThing UnSuggester | Don't read THIS

anti-suggestions for 'Left Behind': basically a list of authors and books I love.

book hidden_patterns random
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Unmarked Planes & Hidden Geographies : Trevor Paglen

Tracking the movements of planes in and around the 'black world' of western AF bases. Totally amazing. kev: you will love this!

air usa hidden_patterns viarhizome war
february 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Metonic cycle - Wikipedia

19 year cycle, basis of Ancient Greek calendar. Found in the dictionary while looking up metonym.

metonym wikipedia time history hidden_patterns
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Halle Brothers Co. - Wikipedia

Defunct dept store in Cleveland. "Halle Berry [was] named for the store [when] her mother spied a shopping bag ... from the department store."

cleveland history hidden_patterns
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics - Wikipedia

"There is only one thing which is more unreasonable than the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics, and this is the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology." and economics, history, etc

wikipedia math science hidden_patterns
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Benford's law - Wikipedia

"In lists of numbers from many real-life sources of data, the leading digit is 1 almost one-third of the time, & larger numbers occur as the leading digit with less & less frequency ... Based on the plausible assumption that people who make up figures ten

math wikipedia hidden_patterns awesome
january 2007 by fakeisthenewreal

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Tremors in Taiwan damage undersea cables, Asian communication links affected

Why my site is slow & I can barely check e-mail. Use fitnr@gmail if you need to get something to me.

earth taiwan asia hidden_patterns
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Amazon Online Reader : Shooting Polaris: A Personal Survey in the American West

kio: how did you know that I was re-downloading the meridians & baselines map? (see hidden_patterns+wikipedia). thnx.

writing history utah hidden_patterns via:kio
december 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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AK-47: The Weapon that Changed the Face of War by Larry Kahaner

This author just claimed (on NPR) that the Army & CIA monitor the price of an AK-47 in potential hot spots to predict when violence might break out (price jumps -> people are arming up). Anyone have more support for this?

war hidden_patterns ussr iraq usa
november 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Hobet Mine Complex Overlays - a photoset on Flickr

The 10,000 acre Hobet Mountaintop Removal Complex in Boone County, West Virginia, superimposed over 38 different cities with Google Earth.

mapping usa environment landscape hidden_patterns geography west.virginia
october 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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SFMOMA | Collections Access Online | Hans Haacke | Blue Sail

amazing. All that is solid?

art sf hidden_patterns
august 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Lott's Lane Remnant on Flickr

The remnant of Lott's Lane in Flatlands, Brooklyn (view large). Originally led to the Lott House in Marine Park. Was known as the "cow path" to neighborhood kids in the 60s.

flickr brooklyn history hidden_patterns map lottslane
june 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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mySociety Travel-time Maps and their Uses

UK travel time maps. Really a proof of concept - they'll send you their software if you ask. NYC, anyone?

uk london travel time mapping hidden_patterns
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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McDonald's REIT Could Be a Sizzler

This story = dumb, but it establishes the point (orig from Fast Food Natn): McDonald's is a real estate company that happens to sell hamburgers.

hidden_patterns food urban
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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æther

EMF detector encased in leather-bound complete works of Poe, complete w/ leather strap for portability. via wmmna

electricity hidden_patterns literature art viawmmna
may 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Empire State Building : Lighting Schedule

upcoming: White in celebration of 'ESB Lighting' ?

nyc spectacle architecture hidden_patterns
april 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Chris Barr : Blog : Thich Nhat Hanh

Elegent statement of spiritural ecology from vietnamese zen monk. ref: Sabrina Mezzaqui's Inter-essere

hidden_patterns vietnam ecology
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Baghdad Police Station, near Green Zone & Kaloogian's photo

see prev del.icio.us post

photography hidden_patterns iraq politics annotate_space
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Abstract Dynamics: Visual Emergence

Photo of random intersection in Turkey claimed to be in Baghdad by GOP candidate, blogs identify exact spot. The story wierded me out today, and then I get a post about it in my RSS. wheels in wheels

photography politics iraq hidden_patterns random
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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F91W-1 - Classic - Timepiece - Products - CASIO

NYT: for "at least half a dozen men ... the "relevant data" considered by [Guantanamo's] annual review boards included the possession ... of a Casio model F-91W watch."

time end_of_rome monopoly_on_violence terrorism usa hidden_patterns cuba
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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Ship locations

live ship locations in world.
This is me setting up a scrape of this image.

map world transport hidden_patterns the_everyday gps
march 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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cabspotting - taxicab GPS positions in San Francisco

GPS positions of yellowcab taxis in San Francisco.

mapping video sf gps hidden_patterns
february 2006 by fakeisthenewreal

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the Geoid is that equipotential surface of the Earth gravity field that most closely approximates the mean sea surface

great map of variance from the Geoid