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High speed rail lines in America: read more here.

...are awesome. I use one everyday. And they make even more sense in the third world as a sustainable solution to transport.


That's a nice lookin' cargo bike. Very cool!

World Bike is helping get intelligently designed solutions to people that need it. Check it out

Right now I'm helping the Friends of Fort Liberte, the non-profit I work with in Haiti, rebrand its identity. I started with an icon of the town, the entry arch, and abstracted it into a logo that hopefully will translate equally well into web, print, and apparel. Below is the second draft:


There's been positive feedback on Facebook, and lots of people seemed to like the font I used so I thought I'd put some info about it here. It's called "Sugo" and it's available for free at dafont.com. Dafont has been the best typeface resource I've been able to find on the interwebs. Most of the stuff uploaded there is terrible, but there are many diamonds in the rough. I'd recommend to anyone working on graphics to look through their catalog- and you can't beat the price!

Enjoy.

...discovered at quantum level!

"Here the tension comes from the interaction between spins causing them to magnetically resonate. For these interactions we found a series (scale) of resonant notes: The first two notes show a perfect relationship with each other. Their frequencies (pitch) are in the ratio of 1.618…, which is the golden ratio famous from art and architecture." Radu Coldea is convinced that this is no coincidence. "It reflects a beautiful property of the quantum system -- a hidden symmetry."

Or not so hidden...

(via ISO50)

For some reason, this made me very happy last Saturday:


An old truck at the Farmer's Market selling Christmas wreaths, with bits of that morning's snow sticking to its hay bales. After that, I was officially ready for the holiday season.

Alice, the dogs, and I went hiking on part of the Fiery Gizzard Trail near Monteagle, TN on Saturday. We didn't see any gizzards, but we saw some lovely waterfalls. You can see a gallery of pics here.

Bonus Question: Can anyone else see the creepy face in the rocks above?

So, I like Flickr... but Yahoo sucks. I don't want to have to remember another login name and password and I want unlimited uploading. And I want a generic place where anyone can go, not just my Facebook friends. Then I remembered that I'm paying for this fancy .mac subscription, which has a pretty nice pic gallery component. So from now on I'll be uploading most of our photos here. You can also always just hit the 'photos' tab at the top. Most of the photos are there are old but I've uploaded a few never before seen ones- like Alice vastly enjoying her bubble tea at a random Chinese place in Nashville. Enjoy!