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:: Mayor Wilders’ recent initiative to “clean up” the city’s catalog of archaic, outdated, obtuse or redundant ordinances begins in earnest next Wednesday when he plans to unveil his self-authored C.O.M.B. (Consolidate Our Municipal Bylaws) Initiative. Among the ordinances targeted by the measure are a 1988 ban on prostitution services for pets, last year’s [...]

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The Champ de Mars is one of Montreal's most storied places. It derives its name from the French colonial era, when it was a military parade ground, but in the eighteenth century it was the site of the city's northern wall. After the wall was torn down in the early ...

Amsterdam Helicopter Game

I love this helicopter game!

In the game you get to fly a helicopter around Amsterdam visiting various bars and restaurants - and who wouldn't want to do that?

The address of the bar you have to find is displayed on the screen and its location is shown by a little red dot on the map. When you find the bar another bar or restaurant address appears. If you can't find a bar or restaurant you can use one of your three wild-cards and move onto the next bar. What's more you can add any of the bars and restaurants to your list of favourites.

Absolutely awesome! But remember kids don't try this for real.

Nomadic Milk Shopping

If flying a helicopter is not your kind of thing perhaps you would enjoy a more leisurely journey by milk cart.

Nomadic Milk Shopping is a 'GPS docu-fiction' by Esther Polak. The central theme of this 'docu-fiction' is the Opzeeland Dairy Route by night. Essentially Esther seems to have followed a mail cart on its night route and filmed the experience.

The route of the milk cart has been synchronised to the video so as you watch Esther's docu-fiction you can follow the current location of the film on a Google Map.

Kunst op de Kaart


Kunst op de Kaart is a Google Map showing over 2000 Museums and Art Galleries in the Netherlands. The museums are tagged on a Google Map and details of each museum is given in a handy sidebar. When you click on a museum in the sidebar its location is highlighted on the map. If you click on a tag an information window opens containing a link to the website of that museum.

HEBUUV

Heebuv is a concept for including location specific chat on Google Maps. Currently the site is only a demonstration of how the concept might work. Active discussions are tagged on a Google Map. Clicking on a tag opens the chat feature, where you can read the discussion so far and add your own comments.

At the moment the site doesn't include the ability to start your own chat, but the idea is that users will be able to click anywhere on the map to start their own discussion.

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For some reason, I'd never really considered how and where Hong Kong's taxicabs are plastered with advertising, so I was somewhat amused to wander into a group of guys doing just that in an out-of-the-way part of the North Point waterfront.

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Heinz Emigholz film on Rudolph Schindler's L.A. houses to debut

Will AIC's flying carpet be more magic than Broad?

heading to DC for national finals

Ken Hedrich's photographs of 1930's Art Deco

One of the year's top films has some of the most distinctive and affecting music in recent memory

Adolf Loos again dead

Chicago and Milan - sister cities, but different operatic strokes

Plus, a spectacular 1965 film on the construction of Bertrand Goldberg's masterpiece

We’ve been invited to speak at many events lately.  Here are some that we were honored to accept (2008)… May 14:  The World Wide Web Comes Home: How “Local Online” Is Changing Your Business at VBSR’s annual spring conference. May 29:  Fulfilling Vermont’s e-State Potential: Building Community in a “Connected Age” hosted by the Snelling Center. June 18 [...]