Estacao Oriente (Lisbon) (V), originally uploaded by manuela.martin

See also Estación de Oriente Flickr Tag, Calatrava Flickr Tag and Lisboa Architecture Flickr Tag.

• About the Ampersand (via)
• A map of All Streets in the USA by Ben Fry
• Bush drilling plan wouldn’t have eased pump prices
• City road networks grow like biological systems
• Color Wars First Game: Scavenger Hunt
• Experiential Typography – One Day Poem Pavilion
• Con Ed: Give Power Plant to Navy Yard

tronguy’s glow, originally uploaded by tresi

From this weekend’s ROFLcon. See also the ROFLcon Live Stream, follow on Tweetscan and on Flickr Group and Flickr Tag ROFLcon.

Country Codes of the World Map (via)

The Bowery Savings Bank tiled floor, originally uploaded by Jason Santa Maria

See the Complete Photo set of Tobias Frere-Jones’ NYC Typographic Walking Tour. (via)

The Uncanny Valley was on this week’s episode of 30 Rock:

What’s the uncanny valley?

…a hypothesis that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost, but not entirely, like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The “valley” in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot’s lifelikeness.

Which is a reason why so many urban and city simulations are unconvincing, no matter how interesting digital urban experiments are at recreating urbanity. The life of urban life is often busy.

Quilted maps by Brooklyn based Canadian artist Ian Hundley (Via & via)

Interestingly both logos use the same typeface: Optima.