NYC – Mindrelic Timelapse from Mindrelic on Vimeo.
Outstanding timelapse video of New Work City. I especially like the shots of Times Square. The video is just over three minutes long.
I’ve never had a chance to ride this. It’s also not surprising how well the system looks, considering it’s for the Feds. In comparison, the DC Metro was completed in the mid 1970’s and is in need of many repairs and general maintenance. Where as, the Capitol Subway was built in the early 1900’s and looks relatively clean and maintained.
Via – BeyondDC 
Interesting selection of really narrow buildings in Japan. In particular, the building in Nagasaki (below), which apparently holds a restaurant, doesn’t even look wide enough for a human. How does it even work? See the link for more images of narrow buildings.
Via WebUrbanist – Narrower Towers: 20 Of Japan’s Thinnest Buildings 
An airport in Japan, Narita International Airport, recently completed the second runway expansion necessary to handle the regions growth and increased air traffic. This is however no ordinary expansion. The engineers had to build around an existing farm. The owner of the farm apparently refused to move and take any form of compensation for his land. So the airport built around him. I’m not sure of the person’s logic but I certainly would not want to live next to an airport regardless of my connection to the land. I wonder if he is now pleased with his decision to to stay now that an enormous airport surrounds his property.
Via deconcrete – interrupted dreams
Great little alternative to the standard Weather.com and Accuweather. If you use a browser that has location awareness it will ask you to allow it access.
http://wthr.in/
I’m a huge baseball fan and more so an Astros fan. Living in the DC area makes it difficult to make it to their games. So when the Expos were sold to Washington and changed to the Nationals I was thrilled. We were getting a local National League team and with that the Astros would now have an annual three or four games series near my home. Ive gone to at least one Astros game here in Washington since the Expos moved. I would go regardless of their performance and I think many Astros fan’s would do the same regardless of the economies condition. The infographic below illustrates how fans in different markets change their support for a team with the changing economy. I think it really illustrates how some teams are really under appreciated, almost to the point of being insulting that a city would even have a team. See Atlanta and Tampa Bay.
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The design world is often very hostile towards the font, Comic Sans MS, originally created for Microsoft to use in their office applications. Generally the thinking is that fonts have very specific purposes and carry different meanings. Comic Sans could be described as round, having soft-edges, child-like and generally happy looking. The hostility towards this font arises when it is used in the professional and corporate world, where a more serious font would be appropriate. Obviously, a lot of this is subjective.
Generally, I agree that Comic Sans has no place in the professional design world. There are hundreds of fonts that are more appealing and effective. Despite the disdain for this font it is still often used in many inappropriate places. See Ban Comic Sans. In response to this, a small and passionate group of people have begun a sort of campaign to ends it’s use. While perusing my papers on the internet I came across this comical site, Criminal Comic Sans. The site is well designed and very informative in regards to the use of Comic Sans.
CriminalComicSans
Came across this really high quality animation of what the reconstructed World Trade Center will look like when finished.
Is it to soon to assume posting your redesign process is a trend in the web design/development community? Well 37signals has posted an overview, Behind the scenes: 37signals.com Redesign, of their redesign process. They cover the different design iterations they went through, as well as the reasons they committed certain aspects to the final design or removed them as they moved along in their process. For their final design, they selected a single page layout that is, of course, very effective and visually appealing I really like the mouse hover effect for their four products at the top of the page.
