new bike lanes now on Durham Bike Map

Approximately 6 miles of new bike lanes have been added to Durham streets since the 2006 Bicycle Plan was completed by Greenways, Inc. I’ve added those bike lanes to the Durham Bike Map.

New bike lanes are on…

Which brings the total length of striped bike lanes in Durham to approximately 20.4 miles. Thanks to Dale McKeel for the update.


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Posted on March 20, 2009 
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Bull Moon Ride: Saturday, July 18th

Durham Habitat for Humanity’s night ride, scheduled for July 18.

Durham, NC – The Durham Bulls and Habitat for Humanity of Durham today released the tentative map for the 2009 Bull Moon Ride. The ride, mapped at just under 17 miles, will be a circuit through Downtown Durham and the American Tobacco Trail that will start and finish at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

“We wanted to have an extraordinary experience for people who don’t normally venture out on bikes at night, and to show off the city of Durham,” route committee member Dave Connelly explained, “We think it has a lot of character.”

Some of the landmarks cyclists will see include Duke University Chapel, the new Durham Transportation Center, Durham Performing Arts Center, American Tobacco Campus, Brightleaf Square, the Durham Athletic Park, the plaza at center city, the Carolina Theatre and the American Tobacco Trail. The route will also include a ride through Campus Drive, Ninth Street, Main Street and historic Parrish Street.

“We did a lot of fine tuning to the basic route to try to incorporate as many places as we could think of,” Connelly continued, “It’s not a race, we want it to be family friendly and we will have escorts from the sheriff’s office.”

Ride support will be provided by the Durham County Sherriff’s Office for cyclists’ safety and traffic control. The ride will include a pit stop at the plaza in center city sponsored by Durham Hendrick Auto Mall. They will be providing the support vehicles for riders, along with water and facilities at the pit stop.

“One of our core values is to support our community and Habitat for Humanity of Durham does a great job of supporting this community. As a local business we want to be a part of an event like this,” said Jack Morgan, service director for Durham Hendrick Auto Mall.

The Bull Moon Ride is a night time bicycle ride through Downtown Durham benefiting Habitat for Humanity of Durham. In 2008, over 200 cyclists participated in the inaugural event, raising thousands of dollars for Habitat of Durham. The 2009 event is scheduled for Saturday, July 18th at 8:30 PM at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Details regarding registration will be announced on Thursday, April 2nd on Durhambulls.com.

Posted on March 20, 2009 
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a digital manifesto


http://www.eletrocooperativa.org

Tomorrow is Digital Humanities Project day

On March 18th, 2009, digital humanists from around the world are planning to collectively document their day, and we are looking for interested participants!

A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (ADLDH) is a community project that will bring together digital humanists to document what they do on one day, March 18th. It is an autoethnography project by digital humanists about the digital humanities. The goal of the project is to create a web site that weaves together the journals of the participants into a picture that answers the question, “Just what do computing humanists really do?” Participants will document their day through photographs and commentary in a blog-like journal. The collection of these journals with links, tags, and comments will make up the final work online.

More information can be found here.

English subtitles for the video
A DIGITAL MANIFESTO

A digital manifesto

image through image / tapeless / filmless / cinefull

Is this your recorder? It´s recording me already, it´s modulating right?

Image through image / and Who is making it? Me? Or the computer?

These images / this life / and Who is editing it? Me? Or the machine?

Created with no brush / only pixels / pixelated paintings / pixelized

here goes my manifesto

pandora´s box

the past is a myth // a system that lives from the past / this is na echo -
system

Love / oh Love / why isn´t the planet moved by love

it should / true love

*“another proof: music that comes from new times. It is the civilization of
leisure not business / it is a new man / a new time a new era…”*

that´s it / after Love / water a lot of water // the holy drink / not this
dead drink

*“radioart / water*

*Lord forgive them they do not know what they´re doing…*

Listen / hear / hear us

The muse//

the primitive future is being lapidated by digital craftsmen / those that
through self-sustainability / deconstruct shapes / in order to find meaning

the past is a myth // human salvation lives in the internet

TRIBES

television never more /// gone is the industrial age // long gone industrial
age

technology has not been completely understood yet // it´s messianic function
in this planet

we are the 1 and technology is the 0

maybe everything seems exact / extract /maybe

Society / liquid society // why not?

*Liquids, differently from solids, do not maintain their form with ease /
they´re fluid / don´t fixate space and don´t tie time // it´s time to
liquefy patterns of dependency and interaction / they are now malleable / to
the point in which past generations did not experience and could not
conceive of*

*there´s a new tribe in town and that´s the hybrid tribe*

*this is the post-concept*

*a cool insight in the Word post / doesn´t mean necessarily posterior but
re-evaluated / self-aware / from a psychoanalytical perspective *

*we all come from the same echo echo-system*

*digital being*

*why not share life is all live the same life*

*at the same time at the same age*

*the future is now*

the digital being liquid celebrates

digital being

do it yourself

by fabricio jabar, from eletrocooperativa
–
renata lemos
http://www.eletrocooperativa.org
http://liquidoespaco.wordpress.com/

Posted on March 17, 2009 
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all roads go through the humanities

Whether they cite the articles that influence their thinking or not, scientists consult the humanities and social sciences.

A recent study by Johan Bollen and his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico used anonymized server log data from 35,000 journals over a two year period. Included in their published findings is a “knowledge map,” a spatial-visual representation of the academic disciplines represented by the articles that the scientists consulted while researching online. The centrality of the humanities, represented in yellow, is a curious finding given that humanities departments across the country are feeling pressure to defend their utility, while the sciences are not feeling similar pressure.


image, PLoS ONE

Posted on March 11, 2009 
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ThruYOU

YouTube, remixed. Well done.

update: NPR picked up the story (thanks Dad)

Posted on March 5, 2009 
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Coffee with Council

Durham City Council periodically hosts these open-house style events. Each would be a great opportunity to share your thoughts on pot holes, bike lanes, tree pruning, digital billboards, and other potential obstacles to Council’s re-election, er, opportunities to enhance our quality of life in Durham.

Monday, March 9, 2009, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Durham Public School Resource Center, 2107 Hillandale Road.

Thursday, March 12, 2009, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Council Committee Room, Second Floor of City Hall, 101 City Hall Plaza.

Saturday, March 14, 2009, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Community Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park, 1309 Halley St.

From an announcement:

Durham City Council is hosting a series of Coffee with Council meetings where residents can have an opportunity to provide input to council members on the upcoming 2009-2010 fiscal year budget.

In addition, for the first time this year will be a Citizen Engagement Workshop on the budget. The workshop is set for Monday, February 23, 2009, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Community Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park, 1309 Halley St. The workshop is intended to engage citizens in conversation about City government’s budget priorities during these tight fiscal times.

This workshop is in addition to the Coffees with Council and will be more interactive. Space will be limited to the first 100 residents and reservations are required. Reserve a spot by contacting Mildred Rogers at mildred.rogers@durhamnc.gov or call (919) 560-4111, ext. 284.

Posted on February 27, 2009 
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Tree City USA

Maybe we should rethink our commitment to urban forestry. I’m not exactly feeling the full benefits.

More here and here.

Edit: By request, here’s the poster image in pdf to download, print, and/or share with your favorite City Council members.

Posted on February 25, 2009 
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New passenger rail welcome in North Carolina

With Durham’s new Amtrak station set to be on line this summer* and its new bus station opening next week, timing couldn’t be better for local governments to engage in a little self-reflection focused on our urban transit systems.

PBS takes a look at the politics and success of Charlotte’s new light rail line (see below). Through self-puffery, McCrory comes off sounding like he doesn’t think other cities can do something as successful as Charlotte’s Lynx Blue Line, but the fact of the matter is there is a lot of money designated for mass transit in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The video includes an interview with one of my favorite NC transportation “experts,” David Hartgen.

This may be North Carolina’s — and the Triange’s — best chance in years to move out of the fossil age and into the 21st century. Hopefully the Southeast High Speed Rail corridor, the Macon-Atlanta-Greenville-Charlotte Rail Corridor, and the Western North Carolina Rail project, as well as municipal/interlocal light rail systems will all get a boost from the stimulus package.

This is not a time to think small, and in the coming year we’ll see just how broad thinking our local leadership really is.

*Note: Durham once had a great train station; let’s see if we can keep this one.

Posted on February 19, 2009 
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confirming what I already know

Following The Archer Pelican’s suggestion, I took one of those “which philosopher are you/which philosophy best describes your own” quizzes. Does that fact that such a quiz returns unsurprising results add further support to my own self-assessment? Does it mean that the quiz was designed well? I guess the question really is, does this quiz (or the perception of accuracy in its results) produce new knowledge or evidence to support pre-existing beliefs? Or is it just a coincidence that it returned results that I have pre-existing reasons to accept? Your mileage may vary.

Which philosopher are you?

Your Result: Sartre/Camus (late existentialists)

The world is absurd. No facts govern it. We live well once we truly accept the world’s absurdity. YOU give our life’s meaning, and YOU control your world.

(see Nietzsche for very closely tied beliefs)

–This quiz was made by S. A-Lerer.

In the late 90s, when I was between colleges, I worked in an office of lawyers who represented individuals on South Carolina’s death row in their appeals claims. I was just a lowly paid intern at first but proved my mettle through investigation in a certain conservative county’s courthouse. As a token reward for my work, a colleague designed for me a nameplate. Everyone else in the office had nameplates outside their offices or on their desks, so this became mine. It was a touching gesture, the kind you can appreciate only if you work in the non-profit world. And I thought the job title she gave me spoke volumes about the things people pick up on through casual conversation. It’s not like I came to work dressed in a Kafka T-shirt and beret (at least not every day).

Posted on February 12, 2009 
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Bike/ped opportunities in the economic stimulus bill

Make sure Transportation Enhancement funding is in the final bill.

This week there will be a conference committee where several members of the House and several members of the Senate will work together to reconcile the two bills. Conferees need to hear that Transportation Enhancements are important to stimulating the economy, creating green jobs, and moving us towards a sustainable future.

Make three calls or send three emails today:

1. Senator Kay Hagan
(202) 224-6342 (Washington, DC office)
(919) 856-4630 (Raleigh office)
Senator_Hagan@hagan.senate.gov

2. Senator Richard Burr
(202) 224-3154 (Washington, DC office)
(800) 685-8916 (Winston-Salem office)
(252) 977-9522 (Rocky Mount office)
(828) 350-2437 (Asheville office)
(704) 833-0854 (Gastonia office)
(888) 848-1833 (Wilmington office)
Write to Senator Burr using this link: http://burr.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm

3. Call your representative
Find your representative here – http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml#nc

…and ask each of them to tell the Conferees to support Transportation Enhancements in the Economic Recovery bill.

Tell them:

Please share this alert with all bicyclists (and pedestrians) you can, and encourage them to join you in supporting biking and walking today!

Adapted for from email action alerts published by MassBike and Durham for Obama.

Posted on February 10, 2009 
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