Cidade dos Logos has collected dozens of country logos, most of which are for popular tourist destinations. I’m surprised at the number that have an almost hand-drawn feel to them.
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For the month of May, retail sales growth in London (+3.5%) far exceeded expectations (-0.1%). Everybody’s congratulating the weather.
“I’m staggered,” said Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec. “The figures are just on a completely different plane compared to market expectations. They contradict other anecdotal evidence suggesting retail sales activity is softening. There are bound to be [...]
The illustration of Rod Hunt is wondrously nostalgic; he draws cities, mostly, in a style that reminds me of illustrated childrens’ almanacs.
Kids in England are using Google Earth to find potentially untended swimming pools in which to have Facebook-organized dips with their friends. My parents’ pool is in the middle of this map. Let’s have a party there next Tuesday night. View Larger Map
Five years since its 2003 release, The White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army has found a place among those big, blaring European soccer anthems.
Like tiny scooters and the renaissance, this trend began in Italy. Despite Seven Nation Army not being particularly well-known (some called it simply the “po po po po po pooo pooo song”) it [...]
BBC Radio 4 program Thinking Aloud investigates the impacts of gentrification on Harlem’s longtime residents. Listen to the mp3.
Another sign of weakening infrastructure, this time in the nation’s capital.
A single switch in a Pepco substation failed yesterday morning, cutting power to the heart of the nation’s capital, including the White House and downtown offices. The outage shut down Metro stations, threw rush-hour traffic into a state of bedlam and highlighted how vulnerable the [...]
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