U.S. Drones Hacked, U.S. Proud to Produce Predators and Reapers

What happened to our software engineers? And what's up with Reaper and Predator drones? What idiot gave them that name?

urbandata (Twitter): 20thC aircraft names: Mustang, Hornet, Falcon. Now: "Reaper"? Who @ Pentagon is Sick & Twisted? WSJ: U.S. Drones Hacked http://bit.ly/4VaI9m

Fixing Dead Urban Spaces with Better Data

A new, award-winning architecture and landscape architecture / landscape urbanism project seeks to do this. The video is awesome. How long until it comes to Buffalo?

Health Impact Assessment and City Planning

Useful twitter list on the subject: http://twitter.com/urbandata/public-health-impact

Walkable Syracuse

OK, not Buffalo, but http://walkeastwood.org/ is a nice blog and resource about local planning around complete streets in a Syracuse neighborhood.