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All the Britons looked SOOOO grumpy last night when GB was marching out in the Parade of Nations. It was as if they were watching footage of the London bombing or something and not the fact that their athletes (whom they should have pride in) were marching out.

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I think this one perfected it:

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In her defense, the Team GB outfits were scandalously terrible.
 
I'm extremely confused as to what maps they are using for Boston.

Love the Berlin U/S map. I just wish it wasn't in that ugly blue/orange color. The BVG yellow/black would be nice.

Edit: I guess they have a yellow Berlin one, but it's the U-Bahn (BVG) only. No S-Bahn.
 
It would be cool to do this against the old streetcar routes.
 
Commuter Rail, HR, LR, BRT, and important bus routes?
 
Yeah it's mine. They are straight ripping me off. I'm working on it.

Best part? I found out because my sister gave me it for Christmas. I was like... WTF?!
 
I don't get why they don't just use the map we've got today. It looks really nice in simple line form.
 
The images on the right-hand side are supposedly details that "make Boston Boston," captured for an algorithm that's intended to help build realistic simulations of cities based on their indicative parts:

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Full story here:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2012/08/data-mining-citys-visual-identity/2875/

And in case you were wondering what the Big Dig tunnel walls and cars were doing there:

The researchers note that their algorithm had a much harder time with American cities, where some of the most commonly identified elements were car brands and road features. "This might be explained by the relative lack of stylistic coherence and uniqueness in American cities (with its melting pot of styles and influences)," they write, "as well as the supreme reign of the automobile on American streets."
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There was a documentary with him in it a few years ago. Totally real (or surreal).
 
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