I've been cleaning out my bookmarks some this weekend and just ran across this cool series of Earth images from Boston.com's Big Picture. This image in particular (the blocks of homogeneity are completely freaking me out) gave me an earworm (which I will forever associate with the awesome TV series, Weeds) that I am generously passing on to you, dear reader. (More, unrelated, stunning photos are here... I can't decide which one is my favorite!)
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Those who are into feng shui say that cul-de-sacs are the worst street design ever. I've noticed that in an attempt to be "beautiful", many modern suburbs are built with lots of curves and dead-end streets - and the houses that are all mirror-images of each other. Keep the streets straight and at right angles, not the houses!
(I can't decide which photograph I like best, either. Planet Earth is so stunningly fascinating!)
I lived on a cul-de-sac once and loved the fact that rarely did any traffic come down our street that didn't belong there. There was zero through traffic and just the occasional misguided driver. But there was also only one way out and (this was ultimately the deal breaker) no matter where we were going, we had to get into the car to get there. Blah.
I can appreciate the lack of through traffic. I get the cul-de-sac advantage without dead-ends: I don't live on an actual street but access road. I.e. delivery and garbage trucks do drive there, but the roads are also pedestrian paths.
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