Urban freeways did not spring up in a vacuum; they are part of a system–an approach to design and planning that is well overdue for an overhaul.

Great, handy little utility I discovered for backing up and syncing all of my personal and work files across all of my shared hosting accounts.

Mariana’s work is incredible. See her recent Conspirators of Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination. I am confusing Lincoln’s conspirators for today’s fashion models.

It may be hard to resist airing political grievances or appealing to voters on social media during a US presidential race as heated as this one. But no one wants to hear about your politics, least of all on Facebook.

This election cycle has certainly been interesting to follow on Facebook compared to the 2012 or 2008 cycles. My observations: in past election cycles where the two candidates were more aligned to the center, there was more support for either candidate and certainly more discussion of the issues. In the months leading up to the November election, I muted a lot of my friends, from both sides, to avoid any more their views.

This year, I’ve seen a lot less pro support for either candidate. What I have seen, from both sides, is pointing out how bigoted, racist, and ignorant Trump is.

Thomas Friedman on Trump’s remarks:

In the last year we have seen a spate of lone-wolf acts of terrorism in America and Europe by men and women living on the fringes of society, some with petty criminal records, often with psychological problems, often described as “loners,” and almost always deeply immersed in fringe jihadist social networks that heat them up. They hear the signal in the noise. They hear the inspiration and the permission to do God’s work. They are not cooled by unfinished sentences.

These are the people we should fear. The people who lack clarity and hold conviction to shoot helpless children at an elementary school, people at a movie theater, a university campus, a public gathering for an elected official, a military base, a mental health facility, or a night club.

Forget politics; he is a disgusting human being. His children should be ashamed of him. I only pray that he is not simply defeated, but that he loses all 50 states so that the message goes out across the land — unambiguously, loud and clear: The likes of you should never come this way again.

The New York Times coverage of the Rio Olympics has been very impressive. I love these stream graphs of events and nation dominance.

See also the NYTimes great interactive feature The Fine Line. They currently have profiles of four Olympic athletes and hopefully more to come.

I’m loving the Tokyo 1964 logo.

As if I needed another reason to completely loathe Trump:

At a rally in Portland, Maine, on Thursday afternoon, Trump provided a lengthy explanation of why he thinks the United States needs to be skeptical of immigrants from many countries, even if they follow the legal process. Reading from notes, Trump listed nearly a dozen examples of immigrants, refugees or students who came to the United States legally — often applying for and receiving citizenship — and then plotted to kill Americans, sometimes successfully doing so. The countries that he referenced in these examples: Somalia, Morocco, Uzbekistan (he asked the crowd where it was located), Syria, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Iraq, Pakistan and Yemen (which he pronounced “yay-men”).

Every year, all along the old Western Front in France and Belgium, the population endures the “Iron Harvest” – the yearly collection of hundreds of tons of unexploded ordnance and other war materiel still buried in the ground.

Occasionally, the Iron Harvest claims casualties of its own, usually in the form of a dazed farmer and a destroyed tractor. Not all are so lucky to escape unscathed and so the French and Belgian governments still pay reparations to the “mutilée dans la guerre“– the victims of the war nearly 100 years after it ended.

Incredible to think that almost 100 years later there are still casualties of World War I.