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Today’s obsession with urban planning continues. In this article, a good argument is made for turning to our immigrant communities to help revitalize fallen neighborhoods.

There are so many excellent points made here. It also makes me reflect on how lucky I am to live where I do, We have a great co-op grocery, bread store, wine shop, restaurants and retail all withing easy walking distance. Even the big box stores are a less than 5 minute drive away.

Please be sure to read the followup, Walking Neighborhoods, as well.

As someone who designs websites almost primarily using type, I can’t reasonably disagree with this stance. Something, eventually, will have to be done.

This made the rounds a while ago but I am just now getting around to reading it. I find looks into the young lives of industry leaders like this fascinating.

So you know, here are The Rules ( via everyone and their Kottke. )

Free embeddable fonts for your website. You know, if you ever want to do that sort of thing.

“The point of a Not To Do list is to prioritize, not just from the top down, but from the bottom up as well. What you don’t do is important because what you leave out makes way for things that are more important.”

There is some wisdom in this one for sure.

Great roundup of good monospaced fonts to use in your favorite text editor. I am now officially smitten with Droid Sans Mono (12pt).

“On the morning of June 30, 1908, the sky exploded over a remote region of central Siberia. A fireball as powerful as hundreds of Hiroshima atomic blasts scorched through the upper atmosphere, burning nearly 800 square miles of land. Scientists today think a small fragment of a comet or asteroid caused the "Tunguska event,” so named for the Tunguska river nearby. Now, a controversial new scientific study suggests that a chunk of a comet caused the 5-10 megaton fireball, bouncing off the atmosphere and back into orbit around the sun. The scientists have even identified a candidate Tunguska object—now more than 100 million miles away—that will pass close to Earth again in 2045. Is there a hidden, but powerful, danger inside the seemingly harmless comet?“

David Pogue gives an overview of the new MiFi. A new service/hardware option available from the cellular companies. It will give you your own private wifi cloud and is small enough to fit in your pocket. Kind of brilliant and amazing.