MTA, Subway fonts, and Andrew Bird's new album Noble Beast

Even the MTA needs a bailout. Read here. Interesting subway font article from NY Times City Room here.

Andrew Bird's new album Noble Beast will now be coming out a week early and has added a new instrumental disc to his deluxe package.

Eielson Visitor's Center in Denali National Park, Alaska is a green building - Happy Thanksgiving!

Eielson Visitor's Center in Denali National Park, Alaska (which I visited this summer) is a green building. Learn more from the National Park Service website here. Below is a picture I took at Eielson visitors center on my visit in June. If you look closely there's a small bear cub near the center of the photo that took an interest in the visitors center. The cub's mother and sibling were close by. It was about 9 pm at night on the last bus trip of the day to Wonder Lake.

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New Animal Collective track: Brothersport, Auto Industry Bail Out, Subway grades, Google SketchUp 7

Animal Collective's newest album (coming out in January 2009 - album cover above) is called Merriweather Post Pavilion and the released track "Brothersport" can be found for a limited time here as acbrothersport.mp3. Animal Collective hosted a listening party on October 28, 2008 up on 145th St.


Robert Goodman has a NY Times Op-Ed "Have You Driven a Bus or a Train Lately?," which suggests that if we bail out the auto industry they should be forced to be transportation companies that focus on transportation as a whole rather than just auto companies.

I watched the session on the auto-industry bailout last night and have to give the Rep. Senator from Tenn. a lot of credit. He asked tough questions. They all did. Rightly so, because it is the taxpayers money. He wondered aloud-why should we help all three-maybe one of the three big auto companies should fail! Perhaps we should consider funding alternative energy startup companies.

The recent subway grades reported on at the NY Times; "No. 7 and L Subway Lines Maintain Their C Averages."

Google SketchUp 7 is out now:

Mutipmap.com's embeddable maps

View Aerial Image of New York, New York, USA on Multimap.com
Bird's Eye view of New York, New York, USA
Get directions to or from New York, New York, USA

From Multimap as featured in lost in spatial's blog post from the Planet Geospatial RSS feed. It has map view, aerial, and microsoft bird's eye view.

China's Brown Clouds, Alaska's Last-Frontier Follies, Google Flu Map &Urban Mapping Developer Portal

Brown Clouds over China image from NY Times

This is scary: U.N. Report Sees New Pollution Threat - NY Times.

This is about Alaskan Politics: Tim Egan comments on Alaska's Last-Frontier Follies

This is Google's Flu Epidemiological app: Google Flu Map

This is a new Canadian Wind Farm: Melancthon EcoPower Centre, developed by Canadian Hydro

These are really sweet: DIY Ipod speakers

This is really cool: Urban Mapping Developer Portal

from Urban Mapping Inc.: Urban Mapping, Inc. (UMI) is a provider of geospatial data and services. Our URBANWARE™ data products are offered via web services and regular updates, allowing access to our database and computation logic for neighborhoods, other informally-defined geographic regions and transit systems. Through UMI's various APIs, developers are able to take advantage of our industry-leading local search products.

Through this developer portal, we provide code snippets, technical documentation and an interactive demo to help developers use UMI's data. You may register for our free neighborhood API and read more about what we offer.

This is sad: Drummer Mitch Mitchell from Jimi Hendrix Experience passed away

Stewart/Rail, NIM no cars, Conor Oberst, Brooklyn Biotech & Americans as non-consumers

Busy working on new rail transit study option to Stewart Airport in New York's Hudson Valley near the city of Newburgh. Read about the new AECOM as our company makes the transition from Earth Tech to AECOM (or don't b/c its booooooring).


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No Impact man rehashes his commitment to no cars and the first reader comment mentions psychogeography!

A slew of NY Times articles:image from NY Times

Just got a copy of the Conor Oberst album from my buddy on his visit to NYC from San Diego,CA., first in a while under his real name and not Bright Eyes, and have found a few of the songs to be pretty enjoyable. Haven't really been much of a Bright Eyes fan but I liked Cassadaga. The times just gave this review of his latest show at Terminal 5 with supporting act Ben Kweller.

Brooklyn's latest Biotech boom??? read about it here.

And are American's wisening up and consuming less? Well some think it could have a catastrophic effect. How do we consume less and keep the economy going?

Climate for Change, Pres. and Planet on a Budget, ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 SP 1 released, DSNY stops leaf composting program due to high cost, and Ninjasonik!

Congrat's to Barack Obama and his campaign. Senator McCain and Obama both made great speeches after the results were in. Barack's speech was inspiring and McCain showed grace in defeat despite a bitter audience in Arizona.

Al Gore's Op-Ed "The Climate for Change" from the New York Times and also "The President and the Planet, on a Budget" from Dot Earth Blog.

ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 Service Pack 1 has been released. Loads of things were addressed using the Error Reporting tool. Request a DVD or download here.

New York City Department of Sanitation stopped its fall leaves composting program due to high costs.

And Bushwick, BK's very own Ninjasonik and their latest video to "art school girls" mentioned in FREEWilliamsburg blog!