reviews | L.A. Can't Drive - Part 2

Mike’s Interview on Blogging.LA

Here’s a quick shout-out to my colleague Jason DeFillippo over at blogging.la. Click on the link to read a little interview I did with him over the weekend.

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Visualizing L.A. Traffic Congestion

This was too cool to pass up. A friend sent this to me from FlowingData, which is an animation compiled by Waze, in collaboration with the Gray Area Foundation and Nik Hanselmann, that visualizes 24-hours of traffic data in Los Angeles. The red dots stand for traffic congestion, and the green dots stand for traffic [...]

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Dear DMV Renewal Office, Where Is My License?

Hello? Anyone there? I have an inkling that there are a total of 6 one-armed people working at the DMV Renewal office in Sacramento. Though government furloughs and layoffs certainly suck for public servants, we as members of the general public are starting to feel the effects of such downsizing. To be specific, when I [...]

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AT&T Don’t Text and Drive Documentary

I was going to do a normal post today, but a reader sent me this link to an 11-minute documentary AT&T produced that highlights the dangers of texting and driving by profiling intimate portraits of individuals who have been adversely affected by texting-related auto accidents. AT&T hopes to reach as many consumers as possible by [...]

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Texting and Driving Kills

Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter Before I talk about the above post, I want to share this link I received a few days ago from one of our readers and regular contributors.  On December 15, 2010, the news reported that a 20-year old woman has been arrested on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter because she blew [...]

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