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"animation of Boris Bikes on the day of a tube strike"

"Autumn 1944, and London was under attack from space. Hitler's 'vengeance' rocket, the V-2, was the world's first ballistic missile, and the first man-made object to make a sub-orbital spaceflight. Over 1400 were launched at Britain, with more than 500 striking London. The 13 tonne rocket impacted at over 3000 miles per hour. There was no warning; the missile descended faster than the speed of sound and survivors would only hear the approach and sonic booms after the blast." For reference the next time you read Gravity's Rainbow.

"The greatly elongated historical timeline results in stylistic time gap between the period when the sites and buildings were designed and when they were actually built resulting in the irony of Brutalist buildings being constructed in a Post Modernist ep

Cities are language

Let's name this phenomenon: shamemapping. Slavin was onto something.

FAT

20 years of photographs in 16 London spots. Too bad all photos aren't online.

remove the handle -> prove cholera is waterborne

via rodcorp

internet playground projects & such

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

"The stone is a listed structure, part of our visible Roman history and an important part of the street scene." (via rodcorp)

video gps trace of london bike messenger routes

great!

google satellite of dummy row houses in London. Built in 1867 to hide an open cut for the Tube.

anyone actually done this?

"online archive of an art project, in which artist Thorsten Knaub recorded his daily movements over the course of a year [using] GPS."

neen

mashing flickr and gmaps