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Pay As You Drive December 31, 2008

Once again, Oregon leads the way: Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski plans to recommend his state transition away from the gas tax in 2009, eventually replacing it with a mileage tax.

Snow Lessons December 31, 2008

We don’t do snow well. Mostly we rely on nature to get rid of it. When serious snow falls and sticks around, municipal engineers don’t scale up for military-style operations - except on high-speed highways: For those they have big, fast trucks with plows that pile up the snow on the shoulders, since nothing else is there. In cities, however, piling […]

Breaking News On The Internet December 24, 2008

Media is changing much faster than you think. Today, Pew Research announced that the Internet has overtaken Newspapers as a news source for the mass population. Once again, this changes everything. "The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all other media except television as a main source for natio […]

Vi Hilbert, 1918-2008: Upper Skagit elder and Lushootseed language December 23, 2008

Shared by bmaryman sad. Vi Hilbert, on the cover of Margaret Read MacDonald's Ten Traditional Tellers. Photo by Paul Eubanks. I was saddened, as both a Seattleite and a student of linguistics, to read on Language Log today of the death of Vi Hilbert. Her importance can nea...

John Wayne's car-chase tour of Seattle in 1974's 'McQ' December 23, 2008

Shared by bmaryman goo stuff from old seattle In 1974, John Wayne starred in the crime drama McQ, set and filmed in Seattle. A friend of mine just sent me this YouTube clip of one of the car-chase scenes, annotated by the poster to indicate to those from out of town just where the Duke was caree...

Here's Your Christmas Nerd December 23, 2008

Shared by bmaryman this one is just for scott... It's not an internets Christmas until someone hauls out a gingerbread AT-AT Walker: (Via Geekologie. The light-up gingerbread man is pretty cool, too.)

Whose Streets? December 22, 2008

I've been thinking the same thing as Dan's friend. Watching scenes like this over the weekend... ...and wandering on foot in the streets of the city—literally in the streets, because why not when most cars are stuck somewhere?—it's hard not to notice the attitudinal shift. The cars are humbled. The people are emboldened. The snow is deep […]

The manga edition: "Das Kapital" December 22, 2008

Shared by bmaryman just something poetic about this whole notion. Karl Marx is finding a new audience among Japanese comic book fans. The manga edition of his masterpiece, "Das Kapital," hit Japanese bookstores this month and sold about 6,000 copies in its first few days. ap

Action Alert: Help Rep. Oberstar Support Mass Transit December 22, 2008

Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn.A lot of Streetsblog Network members are already starting to wind down for the holidays, and we're all for that. But in Washington, where lawmakers are working on an economic stimulus bill, things are happening that could have major ramifications for many years to come. The Wall Street Journal is reporting to […]

How astronauts went to the Moon and ended up discovering planet Earth December 20, 2008

Forty years ago this Christmas the first human beings reached the moon. But their historic feat is better remembered for an image of what they left behind - planet Earth.Looking back from more than 200,000 miles away, the crew of Apollo 8 saw Earth floating "like a Christmas tree ornament lit up in space, fragile-looking". They pointed their camera […]

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