Trajan Horse — a banal saboteur

Kirby Ferugson  takes on the movie font. (Thx, Michele.)

Travel by Train

StrangeMaps highlights  a recently released coffee-table book, Transit Maps of the World.

Oh, the places you’ll go

The APA recently announced their top 10 American neighborhoods. I’ve been lucky enough to have lived in or visited four (one of which I grew up in).

Texas rules!

I guess if they voted any other way, they might have to convene every year.

(Thanks, Kevin.)

Nevadans vs. the law

See http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7162515

and

http://www.sar.org/history/flag/flag-act.html . (Thanks, crazymonk.)

Free Radiohead or What You Will …

In the tradition of local/indie theater groups across America (or at least in Berkeley and Austin), Radiohead is offering its latest set of goods at the pay-what-you-will price. I’m tempted to pay loads more for this than I would for most choice CDs at Amoeba.

More fun with Google Maps

Gawker has used the power of Google Maps to create the New York City Subway Smell Map. Its reader-based ratings have given us such descriptions as “asscake death venom animal carcass” and “cow shit.” Interactive and snappy, it’s worth a moment of your time.

Google Transit

New — to me — from Google Labs is Google Transit, which allows you to map out the most expedient route between two points in a city … via mass transit. I’m frighteningly excited about this feature, especially given the fact that it’s not yet available in the Bay Area.

Free Museums

While I have mixed feelings about promoting my bank, I am excited to take advantage of Bank of America’s “Museums on Us” program, which allows me and a guest to go to a handful of museums — free of charge — in the Bay area during the month of May.

San Quentin, I Hate Every Inch of You

From The Roundup:

Legislators learned by accident this week that construction of the [new San Quentin execution] chamber was well underway when a couple of legislative policy analysts visited the prison for research and happened upon the new facility,” write Evan Halper and Jordan Rau in the Times.

“‘It is an insult to the Legislature. It is an insult to the public,’ Sen. Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles) said. ‘It really is outrageous what they have done.’”

“Administration officials say that they did everything by the book. Legislative approval, they note, is required for projects costing $400,000. The administration priced the new chamber at $399,000.”

Funny, we at the Roundup have never been able to build a death chamber with less than 401,000. Guess we’ve been overpaying for ours…