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OMB Prepares to Shutter Data.gov →

data.gov, paymentaccuracy.gov and others start disappearing as early as june

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Watch

Data (Joel Lozano) via OK Great

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Crisis Mapping Meets Check-in - Technology Review →

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Black in Back: Mardi Gras and the Racial Geography...

Urban experience is always made up of such combinations of memory, anticipation and immediate experience. The novelist, literary critic and keen observer of cities William H. Gass has written about what he calls “recursive” experience. He offers an example in the opening passage of Garden, Ashes, a novel by Danilo Kis: “Late in the morning on summer days, my mother would come into the room softly,...

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“Digital nostalgia is a growth industry, but in entrusting our memories to...”

– things magazine

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The first musical album that’s also a location... →

When the album is released this spring, users will be able to download the album over the Mall’s WiFi. The phone’s geolocation will sync up with an impressionistic map rendering created for the app. Hit play and as users create their own path through the Mall, they’re creating their own special listening experience. If a user say cuts over to the reflecting pond then over to the FDR memorial, they...

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Here Be Dragons: Ancient Maps of the Internet →

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Quark

mrgan: I was reading the Wkipedia page on the quark, and I came across this wonderful sentence: Gell-Mann originally named the quark after the sound made by ducks. If you’re ever looking for inspiration, take a dive into the Wikipedia hole. I’ll be sitting here imagining a universe built of subatomic ducks.

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Atlas of Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use →

A group of Inuit experts, community researchers, and university researchers, have worked together over the past several years to document specialized Inuit knowledge about sea ice. Inuit elders and hunters are the local experts on sea ice.

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