(via Shannon_Mattern)<br />
Goes with this: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/start.html?pg=9

who says the mega-project is dead?

Madrigal is fire at the moment.

"What we're seeing with Stuxnet is the first view of something new that doesn't need outside guidance by a human – but can still take control of your infrastructure," says Michael Assante, former chief of industrial control systems cyber security research at the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory. "This is the first direct example of weaponized software, highly customized and designed to find a particular target."

via deconcrete, see strange maps as well.

"And the same sprawl-and-mall dangers, we might add."

I read something like this and it's hard to not to think that this is knee-jerk anti-suburbanism. What, exactly, is wrong with a high-density suburbanism linked to major cities by high speed rail?

Not sure how this represents improvement; looks like a pretty toxic business environment to me.

noted in a varnelis essay.

The surface of the moon, translated into music, via @jackself (cc @pruned)

agriculture as infographic
via @flowingdata

via @atlasobscura

best World Cup piece yet.

Trudgill discusses low-impact species which have migrated to a new area due to a change in suitable environmental or climatic conditions. Trudgill even suggests that people use the term ‘refugee’ species in these instances, as this word has a more caring connotation. The suitability of the term ‘invasive’ is perhaps therefore dependent on the species’ impact rather than as a general term for all non-native species.

via TLoOG/GOOD.is

via @bruces

Barcelona gave up $100 million to donate their shirt sponsorship to a children’s charity. Madrid spent $100 million on Kaká, then chopped down a lilac tree and slit the throat of a new faun in public.