Summer Streets will take place for three consecutive Saturdays in August (August 9, 16, & 23) from 7:00 am – 1:00 pm. The route will connect the Brooklyn Bridge with Central Park and there will be recommended connections to the Hudson River Greenway, allowing participants to plan a route as long or short as they wish.

This event takes a valuable public space – our City’s streets – and opens them up to people to play, walk, bike, and breathe. Summer Streets provides more space for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC’s greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/summerstreets/html/about/about.shtml

http://www.ridethecity.com/ 

http://tessevans.muxtape.com/

i love online tv, it’s the poor man’s dvr.  and there are tons of greats things to watch on hulu. they have entire seasons of shows, old throwbacks, clips, and movies.

but i knew i was in love when i saw this on the “most popular viewed video”:

SNL’s Iran So Far

previously: the high line

we had one about a year ago, which, after a lot of deliberation i decided needed to be killed humanely (NOT with a glue trap) because catching and releasing it would just be putting it in my neighbor’s house, as the mouse would be unlikely to find a home in any nearby field.

the whole episode ended horribly; mice screams, in case you don’t know, sound human. and after the whole ordeal i thought: there has got to be a better way.

a couple months later i read this post (link: Mice Capades Article) on the Blueprints blog Bluelines, which i really enjoy, and i immediately bookmarked it because i knew, invariably, i would need it one day.

Victor Electronic Mouse Trap (with batteries) – on sale too!: here

you can also pick one up at Home Depot.

so you upload songs from your computer to your muxtape page (up to 12 songs, none larger than 10mb) and then you have a mix, and a url, to share. if you already have one you could add your link below in the comments.

you can see lifehacker’s feature on the site here.

just click once on the title to Play or Pause.

http://muxtape.com/

now you can make guesses and have a definitive answer source.

http://whatcoloristheempirestatebuilding.com/

http://www.juliapott.com/

one of my favorite online writers margaret mason(formerly berry) wrote this article for the morning news on Virtue: Ten Bucks? Ten Charities (if i could quote the entire article here i would) which led me to one of my favorite organizations www.heifer.org which gives families in need a crop of seedlings or an animal, like a llama! that sets up a sort of giving tree for the families, who are given classes on how to care for their gift animal/crop. (and then you can put things like “just bought a water buffalo/helper monkey (different organization, see article)” on your google/twitter/aim, because that is hilarious.)

WaterAid  is also on my list.

www.heifer.org      www.wateraid.org     www.habitat.org

i think the polar bear is my favorite. i was going to save it for the summer08 mix, but i couldn’t deprive you of this video as your first impression.

the artist’s site: http://jennyowenyoungs.com/

I highly recommend going. and if you’re not in going to be in NYC you can still visit the online exhibition- (but if you’re in NYC i promise it’s worth going. if you can’t swing the $20, $12 for students, it’s always free on Fridays after 4pm)

you may have seen this on MoMA’s promo materials and wondered what, exactly, it was. well! it’s a glass blown object that uses live bees to determine fertility cycles and detect diseases- including cancer. apparently bees have phenomenal odor perception and can be trained to target a specific odor (in breath.) – click here to learn more.

this is pretty much exactly what it looks like. indoor/outdoor furniture. i bet new yorkers are peeing their pants when they see this. – click here to see this object on the online gallery.

Merry-Go-Round Water Pump: the children spin around on the toy, pumping water into a nearby vessel. this reminds me of an exhibit that the MoMA put on a couple of years ago- Design for the Other 90% (of the, not affulent, population) I think it’s a great example of good design for a real need. -click here to see it on the online gallery.

MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York
You can see the exhibit online here: http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind

i like that there’s nothing to download, just open the link and input your time. i think i originally found this through lifehacker.

good for breaks, or making sure you leave for work in exactly 10 minutes.

http://theinsomniacsociety.com/timer.html

perfect.

you can buy them/see his other work here: www.jasonshogreen.com