The 18th floor of the Sherry-Netherland — a hotel and condo complex — has 15 rooms and is going for $95 million with a monthly maintenance fee of $60,000. Of course, five of those rooms have views of Central Park.
Now who do I write the check out to?
Nice maps from Sandow Birk that compare the liberal and conservative views on the world in two hand drawn maps. The one above is the conservative map. Clicking it brings you to all of Birk’s art where you can find the liberal one right next to it.
via Explore
This is one of the best flash mob pranks I’ve seen in a while. This Panhandler Party video gave me a huge smile on my face.
via Boing Boing
I rather enjoyed reading this opinion piece on Amtrak’s Quiet Car:
The Quiet Car, in case you don’t know, is usually the first car in Amtrak’s coach section, right behind business class. Loud talking is forbidden there — any conversations are to be conducted in whispers. Cellphones off; music and movies on headphones only. There are little signs hanging from the ceiling of the aisle that explain this, along with a finger-to-lips icon. The conductor usually makes an announcement explaining the protocol. Nevertheless I often see people who are ignorant of the Quiet Car’s rules take out their cellphones to resume their endless conversation, only to get a polite but stern talking-to from a fellow passenger.
I got more nostalgia from this quick story about Amtrak’s Quiet Car than I did the 90s video. Amtrak offered a service from Princeton to New York which I used for a few years before I moved; they canceled it a few years back. But whenever I travel by rail, if it’s not in business class, it’s in the quiet car where I can sit back, relax, and listen to the tracks beneath me and where my love of quiet is loved by everyone around me.
via Kottke
I’m not going back to Windows – and certainly not Internet Explorer but this ad for the browser was nice to watch. Although, if I was a kid growing up now, I’m not so sure I’d want to use a browser that was born when 56k modems were around.[1]
via Shawn Blanc
My first modem was a 2400 baud modem which was blazing fast considering most were 1200. ↩