• 1976 Montreal Olympics Logo
• James Biber’s Moleskine on View at Milan Design Week
• The Image of the (Failed) City : Spillover
• Blogitecture at MIT HTC Forum Video
• Alice Marwick on Foursquare and prescriptive social software
• Suzanne Stephens on the Johnson Tapes
• BLDG BLOG responds to Maureen Dowd’s ridiculous article about Twitter: How the Other Half Writes: In Defense of Twitter (can we all agree that MoDo has got to Go?)
• Electric power plants: a description
• Spacebuster: Currently Inflating All Over New York City
• Opening Skinner’s Box: ten psych experiments that remade the world
• Could a “12 Minute” bus map increase bus ridership?

• Giving this its own post would only legitimize the Wall Street Whine in NY Magazine’s The Wail of the 1%. In short: Fuck You. Also see Not Getting It for a more measured response
• In a related matter, Does Wall Street Owe Us Reparations
• Goon Tower is a collaborative pixel tower where each floor has been drawn by a member of the Something Awful forum
• Dr. Mario Weighs In on Universal Health Care
• Today in WPA Blogging
• Periodic Table of Typefaces
• The World is Running Out of Raw Materials for Everything
• On the MTA funding silliness: Gang of Four proposes all sorts of fees
• Republicans are More Popular than Cuba, Less Popular than Venezuela and I didn’t know that merely shaking hands would cause the USA to shatter. When did Republicans think the nation was so weak? Get a grip.
• Who Is Meghan McCain? I’d like a book deal, too!
• Our grim e-book future

• Loving and hating Christopher Alexander
• The Barbican Debate: Can Good Design Change the World? – more like this, please
• New Yankee Stadium a Batters Dream
• A Quarter of Texans Don’t Want to be Americans & If Texas Seceeds, Don’t Mess With It and finally Let Our Texans Go?
• WTC Logo Preservation Project by Ji Lee
• Can Modernism Mend a Broken Heart? Mister Glasses to the rescue
• 43,000 people and 2,000 vehicles an hour: why Oxford Circus is being re-built
• A very peculiar practice: How Amanda Levete is slowly finding her feet following her ex-husband’s death
• Time to face up to the brutalist truth

• Bryan Nash Gill’s Tree Ring Prints
• The elements of networked urbanism
• Chino Otsuka reshoots an image from a location in childhood and photoshops herself back in ((via)
• Video animates the “Idaho stop”
• The Shining carpet print is in Toy Story
• Brooklyn Community Board Cuts Off Developers’ Fingers
• A Message To You, Teabaggers
• Sweet Juniper’s photos of an abandoned Detroit block

• Conservatives Analogizing Themselves to Violent Terrorists
• Using the Hudson to Cool the Trade Center
• Thomas Doyle’s marvelous diorama art
• BLDGBLOG Book & Behind the Scenes of The BLDGBLOG Book
• Know Your Meme – brilliant videos
• Like FFFOund for type: We Love Typography
• Consumers and Health Care
• The Graffiti Debate: Glorifying art or vandalism?
• Smithsonian picks architects, design for African-American museum

• Pritzker Prize Goes to Peter Zumthor
• Biking Has Its (Tax) Benefits. Or Does It?
• Few Good Options in Pirate Fight
• London as Language
• Enclosing the BQE
• Knucklehead Politicians Want to Tear Down Beautiful Train Station
• Conservative Anti-European Rhetoric Reflects Distinctive Southern Attitudes
• Shoring Up a Landmark Ruin on Roosevelt Island

• Analysis of utopian city designs: Work AC: 49 Cities
• Web Trend Map 4
• BRT >> HOV >> HOT >> Lane
• Job Sprawl
• The Aleatoric Landscape of Willett Moss
• Ralph Beyer and Coventry Cathedral
• Free as in “Me”
• Telegram Stop | Send a Traditional Classic Telegram the easy way

• 1001 Rules For My Unborn Son
• All 120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts
• The Problem of the Senate
• Arial Redux
• The Obama Auto Plan
• On Hoaxes (or not), Twitter, And The Pleasures of Digging (and not the Kevin Rose kind.)
• America’s bankers are oligarchs
• When Are We Going To Start Talking About The Environmental Cost Of Solar?
• The World’s 7 Best High Speed Rail Networks
• Three notebooks by Lebbeus Woods
• It’s a Kindle World Now
• Tizzy Over Downplayed “Freedom” At 1 World Trade Center

• BLDG Blog – Books Received and Reviewed
• Proposal: Buy a House, Get a Green Card
• Unsurprising: WTC Developer Looks To Port Authority For Help
• Darth Vader money
• Huge Coalition Lines Up Behind Ravitch’s MTA Rescue Plan
• You should be reading Second Avenue Sagas for all MTA Bailout News – Paterson spars with GOP as deadline nears
• Autotune
• On Renaming the Sears Tower: Edifice Complex
• Carol Baum: Welfare CEOs are Just Like John Galt – I agree: Atlas Shrugged is a stupid book

• Carbon Giveaways Hammer the Poor, Auction & Rebate Gets Fair Environmental Sustainability
• With tolls out, Senate nears temporary MTA fix
• Tobias Frere-Jones’ Gerrit Noordzij Prize
• VP of AMTRAK SUPERTRAIN
• Lack of Eurostimulus: Political or Structural? – seeing how many billions of the AIG bailout went to UBS, Deutsche Bank, and other EU banks, this is particularly galling
• ‘Soft infrastructure superpowers’: Lift09 presentation
• Bed Stuy Meadow
• The Architecture of Unhappiness: Gomorrah
• Urban Un-Planning: Form Follows Finance