These are my shared links for April 8th

• Making Advocacy & Humanitarian Maps – What map does not advocate, or argue for something? We are always calling maps to our aid. Three free books on maps and advocacy have been made available for download recently, and are worth a look.
• Food Decorating Pen – cupcake lovers take note!
• Manhattan Euro – Artist Ronald van Tienhoven (1956) captured the dynamics of 400 years of Netherlands-Manhattan in his design of the Manhattan fiver. The front side shows, next the a coin-in-coin likeness of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, the precise structures of Manhattan in 2009. Thanks to modern technology, the artist was able to minutely depict Southern Manhattan in 3D. On the back side you can see and feel the landscape of Manhattan in 1609, represented faithfully thanks to scientific research by the Wildlife Conservation Society of New York.

These are my shared links for April 1st

• SatNav Shoes: Navigate the City on Foot – I'm not sold on the aesthetics of the shoe, but I must say it's got geospatial soul.

These are my shared links for March 30th

• Earth Hour 2009 – Click on the images to see what it looks like without (some) electricity.
• 270 – Palestine’s Island Paradise, Now With a Word from its Creator – Mr Boussac took advantage of the resulting archipelago effect “to use typical tourist maps codes (mainly icons) to sharpen the contrast between the fantasies raised by seemingly paradise-like islands and the Palestinian Territories grim reality.” The map does have a strong vacationy vibe to it – but whether that is because of the archipelago-shaped subject matter, or due to the cheerful colour scheme is a matter for debate.

These are my links for March 30th:

• The crate sphere – I wonder what the world record for most milk crates is?
• 'Dead Pixel in Google Earth' – Dead Pixel in Google Earth (2008) is a work of concept art by Helmut Smits; the 82×82-centimetre square of burned grass represents one pixel from an altitude of one kilometre.

These are my shared links for March 24th

• PlatyPreserve — Oxygen-free wine preservation in the back country – I would like to take one of these backpacking.
• Smokestack Washington: 1921 – Interesting view of what the National Mall looked like 90 years ago. [Part3]
• Monumental: 1919 – Interesting view of what the National Mall looked like 90 years ago [Part2]
• The Nation's Attic: 1919 – Interesting view of what the National Mall looked like 90 years ago.
• Little Pete Seeger: 1921 – Pete Seeger turns 90 this May

These are my shared links for March 24th

• BB exclusive: new track from David Byrne + Brazilian Girls (audio) –

These are my shared links for March 20th

• Reproducciones vegetarianas – famous paintings made with vegetables.
• Arte, con lo que sea … – portraits made from the tape out of old cassettes.
• Subway Art Gallery Opening – this will be sent to members of the Washington Metropolitan Residents for a 24 hour Metro…

These are my shared links for March 17th

• Resource Hogs: Greening Prison Infrastructure – Greening all the prisons in the United States could create savings of up to $196 million per year.
• Getting A Leg Over Shadwell – photos of a well executed installation of a woman's leg and high-heel shoe from atop a building.
• VILLA SIMONT, 12.3.39 [1] – I didn't know the French Foreign Legion received a 1/2litre of wine a day [Orwell's Diary]
• My Social Graph is Getting Weird – Jeremy Fuksa takes us on a little journey through the WTF friending land of Facebook at a Pecha Kucha
• Liberia’s Blackboard Blogger – Alfred Sirleaf is an analog blogger. He take runs the “Daily News”, a news hut by the side of a major road in the middle of Monrovia. He started it a number of years ago, stating that he wanted to get news into the hands of those who couldn’t afford newspapers, in the language that they could understand.
• FUNK the War – nice little video

These are my shared links for March 15th

• Cycle Chic et l'Amour – By bicycle. On foot. By bus. By tram. A new step in [for] life.