Month: June 2002

Beat the housing crunch with a Microflat

Zipcar offers a new model of automobile rental for New York, Boston, and DC. No more worries about parking spots…

CADbitch is great. Too bad it isn’t being regularly updated. Well, at least there’s a lot to catch up on. Note the link to firms and salaries…

Find out all about urban heat islands and read a case study of Washington DC. See Paul R. Baumann, geographer at SUNY-Oneonta’s description of An Urban Heat Island: Washington DC.

To help you in your wardriving, you may want to learn to read the language of warchalking.

The Institute for Applied Autonomy “was founded in 1998 as a technological research and development organization concerned with individual and collective self-determination. Our mission is to study the forces and structures which effect self-determination; to create cultural artifacts which address these forces; and to develop technologies which serve social and human needs.”

Need to find the fastest way to get from point A to point B in LA county? Check out the traffic maps at OCnow traffic central

The BBC reports that teleworking is finally here. Some 7% of the workforce in the UK work at least one day a week at home through the use of computers and telephones. See Teleworking soars in the UK

CNN.com carries an article on Levittown turning 50. See CNN.com

Are special truck lanes on highways in our future? See the LA Times story: A Call for Segregating Truck Traffic