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Month: September, 2008

Face Up mural tour

uses of the Xtracycle

Carrying equipment for work, hauling groceries, registering voters… Try VoteForChange.com to check your voter registration. This is a great website, especially for those in states/counties that can’t/don’t confirm voter registration via the web. NB — Be sure to spell out your street suffix (e.g. Ave would be Avenue).

Green jobs in North Carolina

In addition to the great art festivals going on in the Triangle this weekend (Centerfest, Blues Festival, and SparkCon), Durham plays host to a conference that aims to shape the future of our state. In the B. N. Duke Auditorium on North Carolina Central University’s campus, public, private, and community groups will gather to discuss [...]

ATT bridge planning meeting, Wednesday Sept 17

A few more meetings, and we should see a bridge. Tomorrow (Wednesday), September 17, the City of Durham’s Department of Public Works is hosting a drop-in style information meeting on the bicycle and pedestrian bridge that will one day span I-40. Two bridge designs made the penultimate cut, with one emerging the victor. The City [...]

radical mapping at Golden Belt, this (the Third) Friday

Maps as art? Opening Friday, September 19th, 6-9pm, the Triangle Cartography Convergence will occupy three rooms at Golden Belt. The east Durham exhibits are part of a larger event with exhibits at the UNC Global Education Center as well as the Friedl building at Duke. The Triangle Cartography Convergence is a two-month experiment in radical [...]

transcontinental timelapse

I work in a place that hosts academics for a fellowship year, so each summer the residential fellows have to return home (sometimes to their dismay at having to leave the Center). Paul Werth, one of last year’s Fellows, and I talked a lot about video while he was here. We discovered a shared love [...]

Goog knocks Chrome from its ranks

The big G announced a new browser this week, earlier than expected by the search engine/software giant’s own admission. Chrome is what a browser could be if it were designed from the ground up to handle all of today’s micro-applications that float around the web. That make the Internets such much fun. Cool idea, but [...]

bike parking, Tokyo style

September Mass, one year behind us

This month, Durham Critical Mass turns one. At least, its modern incarnation turns one.* To get you revved up for Thursday’s September Mass, enjoy these bike-filled scenes shot around Durham –  from August’s Critical Mass ride to beautiful weekends on two wheels. Durham Velophilia from Phillip Barron on Vimeo. Durham Velophilia is set to the [...]