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Oil Hits Florida Beaches

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:24:57 +0000

The BP Gulf Oil Disaster is just that. And the only clean up story circulating right now is the contract actor Kevin Costner has struck with BP. So if you are currently on the west coast of Florida and want to spend a sunny day on the beach, Think again! At least if you’re in Destin, FL, where thousands of tar balls washed up on the beach this week (see picture above) – yuck!

Destin Beach isn’t alone–GovMonitor says that 61 miles of Florida beaches are currently oiled. The website reports:

Tar balls, tar patties and mousse continue to be found on Panama City Beach, Destin, Ft Walton, Pensacola Beaches and throughout Northwest Florida, with the heaviest impacts reported between Escambia and Walton Counties.

Ingenious Flipper Bridge Melds Left-Side Drivers With Right-Side Drivers

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:31:06 +0000

Hong Kong drives on the left side of the road, mainland China on the right. So how do you prevent crashes when driving between them? Like this…

To quell confusion at the border and, more importantly, to keep cars from smashing into each other, the Dutch firm NL Architects proposed a brilliant, simple solution, the Flipper bridge.

New London Double Deckers

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:38:06 +0000

It was one of the pledges of his electoral campaign, and now London Mayor Boris Johnson has made good on his promise to bring back the iconic London red double-decker bus. However, this is a cleaner, greener and cooler looking model. Today, the new design, complete with new-generation hybrid engine, was unveiled to the general public.

This is Chill

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:02:27 +0000

A 2010 Timelapse Showreel; Shot in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia; Host of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Shot in the days and weeks leading up to the games. This is very cool.

New City – Cisco Style

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:37:02 +0000

Cisco’s Wim Elfrink and developer Stan Gale plan to standardize many elements of New Songdo (see above) in other cities. Photograph by James Whitlow Delano

Ten years ago, Gale was a builder and flipper of office parks. Gale’s fate began to change in 2001 with a phone call from South Korea. The Korean government had found his firm on the Internet and made an offer. The Vision: Gale would borrow $35 billion from Korea’s banks and its biggest steel company, and use the money to build from SCRATCH a city the size of downtown Boston. New Songdo City won’t be finished until 2015 at least, but in August, Gale cut the ribbon on the 100-acre “Central Park” modeled, like so much of the city, on Manhattan’s.