Humor
Friday Funny: The 10 Best Simpsons Commuting Jokes
The FXX cable network is amidst a massive marathon of all 552 episodes of the Simpsons. Joseph Rose, took a break from cartoon bliss to produce ten of his favorite scenes building jokes out of transportation experiences.
Friday Funny: 'How Many Architects Does it Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?'
Hint: the answer is 21, but there's a descriptive way to add that up.
Voices of the Train: Meet the Announcers Behind America's Transit Systems
Ever wondered who the announcers are for some of the largest transit lines in the United States?
Friday Funny: Daily Show Burns Congress' Highway Trust Fund Dysfunction
In a segment The Daily Show calls "Shabby Road" (complete with photoshopped image of President Obama, Rep. John Boehner, Sen. Harry Reid, and Vice President Biden as the Beatles), Jon Stewart takes down Congress' inaction on the Highway Trust Fund.
Friday Funny: Mapping Seinfeld's Locations
Whether it was a show about nothing, or, as Eric Jaffe claims, a show about anything, Seinfeld was all about New York City. And it debuted 25 years ago, on July 5, 1989.
Thriving in the New Zombie Future: Business as Usual Planning for the Zombie Apocalypse
A satirical post welcomes the metaphorical zombie state experienced by humans in the modern built environment as the path of least resistance for a literal, future zombie state.
Friday Funny: 12 Signs that Bring Humor to the Brooklyn Streetscape
There are other ways to grab attention, even if you don't have the cash to spend on a giant sign that says T-R-U-M-P above the Chicago River.
Friday Funny: How Automatic Toll Technology Could Have Saved Sonny Corleone
In a fake editorial on the satirical site The Onion, Charles J. Galvin, CEO, E-ZPass Group, pays homage to the alternative path the Corleone family would have taken in The Godfather if only Sonny Corleone had been driving a car equipped with E-ZPass.
Friday Funny: The Onion Satirizes our Obsession with 'High Tech Jobs'
In a totally fake news report, satirical site The Onion imagines just how far some policy makers will go to appear like they are attracting techies and innovation.
Friday Funny: The Signage of the Not-So-Distant Future
A Tumblr called Signs from the Near Future has seen the signs, and has predicted what the signs of the future will look like.
Friday Funny: Guy Riding Super Tall Bike Puts the 'Win' in Winter
Parts of the East Coast got hit this week by rain and floods in what must certainly be cosmic salt in the wound of a long and intense winter. Luckily for our moods, one local news broadcast caught one biker rising above the wet conditions.
Friday Funny: The Subway Oyster Shucker
To some people (or maybe just this one person), the N Train in the New York City subway system in a perfectly acceptable place to shuck some oysters.
The Who, What, Where, Why and How of Washington, D.C.'s Capital Bikeshare
Few transportation projects have transformed D.C. as thoroughly as Capital Bikeshare. From humble beginnings in 2010 with fewer than 50 stations, there are now over three hundred stations and 2500 bikes spread across the city.
Friday Funny: Goats Love a High Rise
Part funny, part amusing, and part just plain cool, goat towers are vertical structures with winding ramps that goats love to climb. They are also are “an idea whose time has come” according to a recent article in Modern Farmer.
Top Ten Fake Futures Most Likely to Destroy Planning As We Know It
The following is a list things that are never going to happen, because if they did, urban planning as we know it would cease to exist.
Nome, Alaska to Lower 48: What Polar Vortex?
The residents and government of the city of Nome, Alaska are unimpressed with the whining they heard this winter.
Bar Brawl Breaks Out Over Kelo v. City of New London
A brawl began after a disagreement over the nuances of the Supreme Court case that protected the power of the government to use eminent domain to transfer ownership of private property for the purposes of economic development.
Pets.com Employee Shuttle Has Been Circling San Francisco Since 2000
Residents say an old Pets.com employee shuttle still drives the streets of San Francisco, seemingly at random. The driver, a mystery to all, emerges from the shuttle occasionally to buy a burrito and a Chronicle. But no one ever sees his face.
Don't Tell Me What Happens in The Death and Life of Great American Cities
I am trying to get caught up on The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. I'm a chapter behind, so don't tell me what happens.
Ballot Initiative Would Split California into Fractals
It’s a surreal response to a surreal proposal: How many different ways can California be divided?
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