Cynically Optimistic

Before Joe gets around to posting photos of each and every building in Manhattan, I wanted to share this building I saw walking home from the Daily Show Studios last week. It sits on the north side of 57th street, across from CBS Broadcast Center. I kinda dig it despite it being a giant glass box. It redeems itself with a pleasing regular pattern of squares, interrupted interestingly by circles. Hrm... Circles inside Squares.... I think I know someone like that.

The map above is from Wikimapia, a site which Tom stumbled onto a few months ago. It pretty much integrates the "add note" functionality of Flickr onto Google Maps. Yes, the maps are a bit out of date. They're still building the Time Warner Center according to the map - when in fact it's very much complete. Hey, it's free.

I went through and tagged a few buildings in various places around the country, it's a functional way to waste time. I also tend to clean up those annoying tags like "Kevin's house" or "Don't buy weed here". But that's just me.