Author: Noel Hidalgo
one more subway seat, not one less car – #BikeNYC
one more subway seat, not one less car – #BikeNYC
i totally agree.
I attended the huge bike lane rally this morning at Prospect Park and, while I may compile my thoughts on the subject later, I was struck by one thing.
Anyone who’s ever seen bikers on the streets of New York has probably seen at least a few of them wearing T-shirts that say, “One Less Car.” I…
A stroll through today’s Prospect Park West #bikeNYC rally/protest. /cc @gothamist
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organizing is a skill that thus far software can only enhance, not replicate…
SPOILER ALERT: Season 05, Episode 01: Setting: 1968. Political climate: Nixon, Humphrey, Wallace election. Henry’s in Nixon’s boat and brings Sterling, Draper, Price on to manage the ad campaign. Megan and Don have an infant son. Will this relationship fizzle after its 15 minutes of fame, only to see Don off to selling tomato soup cans for Nixon’s mug? Season 5 theme: loss of innocence. Vietnam, as the first televised war, brings a loss of innocence to a nation. Sally loses her virginity. Ultimately, Watergate and the demise of the presidency twists the knife in the collective wound. Side stories: Peggy and Ken find their way to each other? Joan’s a widowed mom, Roger doesn’t step up to the plate, though he’d love to taste the food. Advertising struggles with the new evolving individuality and counter-cultural ethos of the anti-establishment generation. A commercializing conundrum: how to market mass production to a culture that rejects conformity? More Madison Avenue ad campaign candy strewn throughout season 5 shows us shifts in the ad and media industries. Season opener song: America by Simon and Garfunkel.
Also featured: Lonely Little Girl by Frank Zappa; Mah nà mah nà by Piero Umiliani
Finale song: Elton John’s Tiny Dancer. It hurts already
my friend’s thoughts on MadMen Season 5. ‘Mad Men’ Watch: A Whole New Kind of Cliché – Readers’ Comments – NYTimes.com
“Small Change” dismisses leaderless, self-organizing systems as viable agents of change. A flock of birds flying around an object in flight has no leader yet this beautiful, seemingly choreographed movement is the very embodiment of change. Rudimentary communication among individuals in real time allows many to move together as one–suddenly uniting everyone in a common goal. Lowering the barrier to activism doesn’t weaken humanity, it brings us together and it makes us stronger.
It is very likely they will make some kind of profit on this, and you have to bear in mind that London Transport makes a loss on every single bus and tube journey. So this is a good value transport investment.
who knew keyboard keys had so much political commentary?
In recent and not-so-recent years, every city administration has aggressively rolled out car lanes all across the city, snatching away space from pedestrians and cyclists and handing them over to drivers. A new report by Captain Obvious, however, found that the lanes in Manhattan aren’t living up to hopes – with motorists illegally speeding and parked in them, pedestrians and cyclists snarled in them, and traffic causing excessive air and noise pollution in them.
Should we pull the plug on Manhattan car lanes?