05 Sep 09
link — In the Shadows We Are Free, and I Walk You Through It
Timmy is 16 years old and lives with his mother in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood. He is also autistic. Every day this summer, Timmy has risen early from bed, usually before 9 AM, turned on his police scanner and live-blogged every police call in the 25th District, sometimes until midnight when he goes to bed. Often, the only breaks in the day are when his mother calls him to the kitchen to eat. In short intros each morning, he also talks frankly about his everyday life and living with autism.Timmy’s blog is an amazing piece of citizen journalism. Check out yesterday’s post to get a flavor of the Herculean task that he does day in and day out. Simply awesome. [via]
04 Sep 09
link — The American Festivals Project
The project explores America’s variety of small-town festivals, with the aim of discovering a rich diversity of culture that has in part remained hidden. Traveling in a truck powered by Waste Vegetable Oil, and living in a 1964 truck camper, [photographers] Ross and Andrew are covering an extensive array of unique festival life from forty-nine of America’s states.What an amazing road trip idea. Loads o’ eye candy here. If I went I would have been at the business end of a defibrillator after all the funnel cakes I would have consumed.
03 Sep 09
link — The sling shot man
Why wouldn’t the world’s best sling shooter be named Rufus Hussey. P.S. I just found the third member of my team of super heroes.
03 Sep 09
link — The Boy Who Heard Too Much
Like a comic-book villain transformed by a tragic accident, Weigman discovered at an early age that his acute hearing gave him superpowers on the telephone. He could impersonate any voice, memorize phone numbers by the sound of the buttons and decipher the inner workings of a phone system by the frequencies and clicks on a call, which he refers to as “songs.” The knowledge enabled him to hack into cellphones, order phone lines disconnected and even tap home phones.Another recruit for my team of (ordinary) super heroes. Already on the team is the world’s fastest man.
02 Sep 09
text — The new tourism.
I was looking at Sweet Juniper’s collection of feral houses in Detroit and a sick thought occurred to me. What if people starting taking vacations to see these types of places?
Think about it. It’s not too much different than going to look at the ruins of Rome. Is it?
What if people started to book trips to see the LA wild fires, or gawk at the wake of a killer tornado.
We rubber neck at car accidents, we watch races to see wrecks, and animals/police chases/weather gone wild shows are always on TV. Why not go see the real thing?
I have to admit the idea of it makes my stomach turn, but do you think this tourism of doom could catch on?
02 Sep 09
link — Thirty Minutes a Day
The always on point Jack Cheng asks what would you do with thirty minutes every day. A very good read. Now I just have to decide what my 30 will go towards.
02 Sep 09
link — Web Trend Map
Visualizing what the cool kids are yakking about on the internets has never been so neat.
02 Sep 09
link — Suburban Tipi
The designer of this ‘mobile home’ says it’s ” … a fusion of three different nomadic home structures: the yurt, igloo, and tipi.” It’s also nicer than my house.
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