Park Slope just got a little closer.

Finally. [Brooklyn Paper via Free Williamsburg]

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Bringing public health to teh interwebz.

Not surprisingly, “Google found an almost perfect correlation between its data and the C.D.C. reports.” What a smart idea. Were I less busy today I’d ruminate at greater length.

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I’d wondered about this place.

Last summer I had several occasions to take the Metro North up the Hudson to Poughkeepsie to visit my then-girlfriend, who was up there for about six weeks, and I always thought this to be a particularly striking and peculiar little island jutting out of the middle of the river, complete with its own massive [...]

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Who needs a car, anyway?

When you can have one of these? [via Uncrate] When I was a kid my dad used to love driving me out to the little regional airports in and around San Diego to watch planes take off and land, and at some point he had his private pilot’s license for a while and would take [...]

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Last Weekend’s Upstate Adventure; This Weekend’s Roundup

So last weekend CS and I hit up the first of three weddings on my agenda for the summer, and, given that I hadn’t taken a day off of work since the 11th of last month and worked through Memorial Day, we decided to make a weekend of it. This was geographically the closest of [...]

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Apologies for the brief posts today, but I had to share…

… my new favorite blog. Hilarious.

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It’s probably a bit late to book travel plans to Beijing…

… but this looks really badassed. Not that I’m in any rush to try breathing anywhere in China outside, say, the Gobi Desert, but — despite JV’s mixed review — China’s definitely on my list of places to visit. I suppose it would be time better spent not checking out the Olympics, though, given that [...]

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