February 2012
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South 12th: A beacon for all Twin Citians. →
southtwelfth:
One of my favorite pieces of anything I read last year was Dan Sinker’s extended, real-time novella of fake @MayorEmanuel tweets. It was great for many reasons, but principally because it started as a not-that-funny one-off joke (Rahm Emanuel likes to say “fuck”), and then, once it had captured…
December 2011
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November 2011
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“Around the world, areas with ethnic divisions are likely to have less government...”
– Ed Glaeser
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October 2011
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Works Progress is hiring! →
weworkhere:
WORKS PROGRESS, an artist-led public design studio based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, seeks a PART TIME PROJECT ASSISTANT
This is an opportunity for an emerging cultural producer to assist a rapidly growing organization with large and small-scale public projects. The Works Progress (WP) Project Assistant will work directly with WP Co-Directors, as well as with project partners from...
September 2011
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August 2011
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Transit access
In some parts of the U.S.—like New York City—public transportation can serve your every need. That’s not true is many other areas, where a car is necessary to get around efficiently. But while the majority of Americans have access either to a vehicle or to public transit, there are plenty of people who have neither. If public transit is going to work as a viable alternative...
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July 2011
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Watchweworkhere:
A year and a half of Give & Take in 90 seconds.
Big thanks to Andy Dayton for doing all the videography and production on this!
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“From an energy perspective, your car is really just a heat machine that happens...”
– Fast Company
This question will come off a bit ICP-ish. Could all of the force of cars driving on highways be captured as energy - by some kind of membrane? How about really heavy, stationary objects, like houses? Can you capture that gravitational force and use that as energy?
I haven’t...
“Communities are not the sum of their roads, schools and malls. They are the sum...”
– NPR: The Key To Disaster Survival? Friends And Neighbors
This is why we do Give & Take.
(via weworkhere)
June 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old order of things, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.
- Macchiavelli
March 2011
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“Our nation was founded on a simple, but revolutionary idea. That the government...”
– Tim Walz, from Minnesota’s Fightin’ 1st
“Workers who have come down from the surrounding high-rise offices begin to line...”
– Meet “Slugging”. Miller-McCune, via The Transportationist
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February 2011
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WatchBritney Spears has seemingly lost the ability to make an alluring facial expression. Come hither lyric, matter of fact delivery, sad eyes - very odd.
How to reinvent higher education. - By Steven... →
jeremyywang:
(via Instapaper)
Ragui
Ragui Assaad, an economist at the University of Minnesota, said the potential collapse of the economy was like a gun to Mr. Mubarak’s head. “If it’s a complete shutdown like this, and it lasts for a few weeks, that is going to be really serious,” he said.
My Econ professor was quoted in the NYT’s top story today. He’s very excited and optimistic about all this.
