The NY Times has a pretty interesting interactive map of homicides in NYC dating from 2003 to the present based on data provided by the police department.
Take a look at it here.
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New York City Homicides Map
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Urban A&O’s site featured in Net Diver
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
SOFTlab’s website for Urban A&O was featured in Net Diver’s 10 year Anniversary Web Issue. Check out the Architectural Website Strategies article by Elsye Alam.
EFGH
Friday, November 14th, 2008
SOFTlab has just completed the website for our good friends Frank Gesualdi and Hayley Eber at EFGH.
The site was conceived as a pulsing array of pixels that contain the projects. After a while, it looks like the site is breathing, almost alive.
Go check it out.
DS+R’s (first) Website
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Guess who has a new site? The cool kids at Diller Scofidio + Renfro. It only took them this long to get one, but they did come out in style. Awesome site, using -what looks like- Papervision. It seems like it also went up quietly just recently.
Check it out at www.dsrny.com
Farewell, and welcome back Mr. Jobs
Saturday, August 30th, 2008Bloomberg news published a few days ago Steve Jobs’ obituary…No, he’s not dead, it was just one of those little mistakes – hit “Publish” instead of “Save”? It was quickly removed from the site, yet not quick enough for Gawker not to pick up on it.
Read the entire 17 page (yes 17 pages!!) obituary, internal notes and other goodies in Gawker’s site here.
Creepy, but unsurprising that they pre-write these things. I wonder if the folder structure where they keep them looks something like this.
Oh, and welcome back Mr. Jobs.
Paris for President
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die
Paris Hilton’s energy plan actually makes more sense than both McCain’s and Obama’s. I’m voting for her. oh wait, I can’t vote…
Help
Friday, July 11th, 2008
I recently received -not for the first time of course – this message requesting help. For the first time though, I actually sat down to read and redline it. Poor Miss Sandra does sound like she’s in a lot of distress, so much that she’s writing from Ivory Coast, yet the reply address -which is different from the outgoing mail address- is from India. Maybe she commutes to write emails from India. She must be spending her 5.6 million dollars flying between the two contries to write these emails…
I also appreciate the fact that there is a rose next to her name. That just tilted the balance and prompted me to -almost- help her. Or be sorry for her.
It’s all in the details folks.
Urban A&O Web Launch
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
The website for Joe MacDonald’s studio Urban A&O was recently launched. The project was led by Mike Szivos at SOFTlab.
Go check it out at www.urbanao.com
LARPing in NJ
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
The group LAIRE (Live Action Interative Role-playing Explorers) is one of many groups that have been getting together for over a decade (!) at a Girl Scouts camp in NJ for LARPing (Live-Action Role Playing), exploring imaginary worlds, fighting goblins and completing quests.
Makes me wonder if they have the honey why don’t you go hunt for some baby food instead of fighting your friends with imaginary lighting bolts quest.
Hopefully none of my MMORPG playing friends will show up at the studio dressed up as an elf…
Read the Wired article here.
Flock
Saturday, March 1st, 2008
I’ve just come to discover Flock a new social web browser which is based on the Firefox technology. It allows you to have all those apps you don’t really want to have so easily accesible at hand: Flickr, Facebook, Picassa, RSS feeds, Del.icio.us, Twitter, etc etc etc. The can all be opened within your browser window and, heres the coolest (for me at least) you can post directly to your own blog through the web interface. It has a bunch other cool features that I’m just starting to check out.
This is the Beta release (it’s been very recently launched) but it still handles very well. This will be my first blog post directly through it so I’ll let you know how that worked out.