"Nothing happens before 2 AM." Gorgeous. Via Mike Risher.

"Aims to improve," that is, through specific, concrete interventions, like extending crossing signal times. The city is here for [everybody] to use.

Sha, you are truly a Stamenite now.

The "NYC Stoop Bench" is absolutely lovely.

Interesting to note: A rabbinical panel rules that elevator cars that "know" how many people are aboard constitute a desecration of the Jewish Sabbath. Whither the instrumented city? Gonna get tough to be an observant Orthodox Jew.

Worth it just for the line "Are Helvetica and leaves mutually exclusive?"

Via Eric. Comment: "And what if in that picture you were standing with someone or near some one that your partner doesn’t like….and then your partner beats you up for it. That’s the tenderloin. That stuff happens. You cant just take someones picture there and post it up. In the “language of the tenderloin” it means something to stand on golden gate and leavenworth or on turk and polk, those blocks mean certain things, where you can find certain people and where you can buy certain things. You take a picture of someone standing on a certain block, you are saying something about that person."

The implications of a globalized electronics industry. Via Nurri.

Per my conversation with Jack Qiu in Brisbane.

This is important and, I believe, true - but happily, very far from irreversible.

"A woman can’t switch her phone’s Bluetooth feature on in a public place without receiving a barrage of the love poems and photos of flowers and small children which many Saudi men keep stored on their phones for purposes of flirtation."

"Raising awareness of people-centered place design"