As we have seen many times, dashcam footage usually gets seen online only when it features something bad happening — car accidents or road rage, usually. But we’ve also seen examples of people being nice, too. Here is a video featuring only the good stuff that dashcams sometimes capture…

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Do you have the stomach for adventure?

Stir Fried Sago Worms

A popular breakfast dish in the jungles of Borneo. Adventure rating: 7/10

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We’ve probably all seen the idea made fun of that we can make a difference in a suffering world by clicking Like on Facebook. Often this derision is humorous. But in this new commercial for UNICEF, while the mockery remains, it’s presented much more seriously and poignantly…

(via Ads of the World)

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In a move that flies in the face of traditional wisdom regarding traffic control, the little English town of Poynton has gotten rid of traffic lights and sidewalks and has reverted to a style of urban design known as shared space. The new strategy is to manage traffic similarly to how it was managed a hundred years ago, which is to say, very little…

The basic theory is that shared space reduces accidents because it changes how everyone behaves in settings where pedestrians and vehicles have to interact. You can read more about Poynton’s move to shared space and see a longer documentary about the experiment at The Atlantic.

(via Kottke)

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Selections from Romain Jacquet-Lagreze’s book Vertical Horizons, “a photographic journey between the buildings of a relentlessly growing city”…

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