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I’ve walked but this numerous times but today the absurdity of it hit me hard. A plaque to commemorate where the Garrison Creek used to me (before it was put into a pipe and filled in/paved over). Now I understand plaques for historical places, events, memorials - but when our last urban remnants of nature are only available to us as a tribute plaque to a time gone by we need to really open our eyes. I know it happens - you know it happens - yet it doesn’t seem to sink in enough to result in change.

“Big Yellow Taxi”
by Joni Mitchell

(Counting Crows Video of “Big Yellow Taxi” on YouTube)

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The high-tech network-aware beach is coming to Ocean City, New Jersey. Track your kids, garbage cans that email maintenance as they get full, and much more more. The good, the bad, and the ugly of it…but it is happening!

I topic I’ve talked about (and proposed projects around) for many years. Seems someone has made a company out the idea. The merger of our digital and physical worlds marches forward!

Their website has a decent Quicktime video right on the main page to give you a better sense of what they are up to.