Bookmobile shared CC by djsamuelson Lest this blog descend into all doom, all the time… from today’s morning paper: “That’s all I have to do?” Travis asked. “That’s it,” Mr. Silberstein replied. “When you’re done, bring it back, leave it on the bookshelf inside, or give it to someone else to read.” At the Bookmobile, […]
Read more "Mobile"From the same people who brought you the Vancouver cycling route planner… some nifty visualizations measuring the ‘bikeability’ of the city. Uh, what? We created a bikeability index, based on five components identified in the Cycling in Cities opinion survey as important to cyclists, then explored in focus groups and validated by travel behaviours. These […]
Read more "More bike-friendly open data goodness from UBC"Via Letters of Note, this card from Isaac Asimov to the children of Troy, Michigan congratulating them on the opening of their new library: This one from E.B. White is also a fine thing: You can view 97 letters from notable people as PDFs or on the Library of Troy’s Flickr set. Sad to report […]
Read more "“stay alive by hiding”"The Royal Library shared CC by cuellar I’ll admit to an uncouth amount of pleasure spending my workdays based at UBC’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, which takes the vintage Main Library and now offers a set of spaces that clearly appeal to the students who jam its rooms, nooks and hallways… But the IKBLC […]
Read more "“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”"Happy European Fish Week everybody! To celebrate, The Guardian publishes this visualization (via David McCandless of Information is Beautiful) that illustrates the depletion of fish biomass in the oceans. In homage to #ds106, here is the animated gif version: This daily dose of doom-mongering is drawn from a study conducted by Dr Villy Christensen and […]
Read more "Sometimes information is ugly, no matter how it looks"