unreliable bookkeeping history; unprecedented bookkeeping future

thx bennett for pointing out the guy who is the dedicated explosion sfx button pusher

Koolhaas meeting minds with an ecology conference; rationally engineered attitudes towards future building projects (averting the eschatological)

fake phone theory via kathryn

long exposure abandoned buildings usa

"The ability of states to control events will be diluted, in some cases destroyed. Artificial borders will crumble and become more fissiparous, leaving only rivers, deserts, mountains, and other enduring facts of geography. Indeed, the physical features of the landscape may be the only reliable guides left to understanding the shape of future conflict. Like rifts in the Earth’s crust that produce physical instability, there are areas in Eurasia that are more prone to conflict than others." via migurski

Photo Auto Guide, "Live Map", Navteq and its ilk

"Ley lines are hypothetical alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths. Their existence was suggested in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, in his book The Old Straight Track."

pre columbus north american contact aka diffusionism

drawing of Google Maps downtown Manhattan if Robert Moses' Lower Manhattan Expressway had been given the go

history of those websites which are mistaken to be the whole internet rather than a single website

t9 history

deconstructing two "black face" typefaces; via marisa olson

programming language infighting (and a lil bit on linguistic similarities)

I like the contrast here of Dub/Reggae vs. Techno/ACIDHOUSE

this is killer, via marisaolson

"Wolves Live In This Region Of The World", a claris homepage site

this plastic material used to be really popular (via cosmic)

via binaryrobot

resource for old newspaper resources

fonts on the NYC subway