Rolando Peñate

Rolando Peñate lives in Brooklyn, is Design Lead at OpenGeo, part of the design team at The Open Planning Project, and occasionally syndicates parts of his life here.

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Fort Worth Raid Update

A reader writes:

Just wanted to give you a heads up - the breaking news here in Dallas is that both the Fort Worth Police and TABC are releasing their internal investigations into the Rainbow…



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INSIGHT: Designs take a leap forward when you kill

Designs take a leap forward when you kill the things you didn’t know you were holding on to.



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The Not So Best And Brightest

Andrea Stone reports:

The latest Army statistics show a stunning 75 percent of military-age youth are ineligible to join the military because they are overweight, can’t pass entrance exams,…



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Hip-hop tribute to Alexander Hamilton: http://bit.ly/1muRdD (via @byoungsmith)



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Obama: The Long View Nine Months In

Here’s my defense of the Obama presidency at this early, but still critical, juncture:

The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Andrew Sullivan



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Do cellphones outnumber light bulbs in Uganda?

Maybe so.

Hat tip goes to the always-impressive Rachel Strohm.



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Pollution in China

How bad is the pollution in China? James Fallows reports.

The Chinese government does not report, and may not even measure, what other countries consider the most dangerous form of air…



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How to save The New York Times?

I was reading an NYT account of its finances and came across the following:

More radical moves, like dropping the sports section, have been rejected because they would undermine the quality of…



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The View From Their Recession

The Awl rounds up some sobering stats:

1. “Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood.”

2. “The U.S. Department…



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Edmund Wilson's all-purpose "get lost" letter

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Edmund Wilson’s all-purpose bugger-off reply. (Via Tim Ferriss)



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Congress Set to Double the Size of Sprawl-Centric Home Buyer’s Tax Credit

sprawl.jpgPhoto: US Department of Agriculture
The $8,000 tax credit for new home buyers — which was wracked by fraudulent claims after its creation as part of the nation’s economic recovery…



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Dolphin markets in everything, Gresham's Law edition

I enjoyed this story:

Kelly has taken this task one step further. When people drop paper into the water she hides it under a rock at the bottom of the pool. The next time a trainer passes, she…



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This is the sort of thing that @CenterForArch should be doing (if they had any tech capacity): http://phantomcity.org/



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Natural nuclear reactors

Several naturally occurring nuclear reactors have been discovered in Gabon, Africa. Groundwater flooding deposits of uranium ore made the reaction possible.

The natural nuclear reactor formed…



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Yglesias Award Nominee



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