Rants and Ramblings: random commentary about culture, media, politics, technology and whatnot.

links for 2007-12-05

• Wash. Leads Metro Areas in Walkability | washingtonpost.com
  A new report from the Brookings Institution ranks the Washington region first among the country’s major metropolitan areas in the number of “walkable places” per capita, thanks to changes in just the past 15 years.
  (tags: washingtondc arlingtonva urbanplanning realestate)
• Address of Senator John F. Kennedy to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association | John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
  JFK’s 1960 campaign speech about his Catholic faith and the separation of religion and government.
  (tags: politics religion jfk via:rwalker)
• Transportation Alternatives: CrashStat 2.0
  CrashStat displays pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities from 1995-2005 on a Google Map of New York City. (You have to zoom in to see the actual indicators / pointers.)
  (tags: googlemaps mashup nyc statistics transportation via:swissmiss)
• D.C.’s Identity Lost in the Mail | washingtonpost.com
  “The Washington, D.C., postmark is fading into oblivion, a casualty of the anthrax attacks of 2001. After two postal workers died at a Northeast facility, the Postal Service began farming mail to the suburbs.”
  (tags: washingtondc)