Daily View, 6/30

• The RCA is still going strong: a talk-to-yourself machine for agoraphobics


• Predictions for the urban world in 2050.


• This seems crazy to me. Poor Bruno!


• Maybe Bruno should've rounded up a pack of 14 friends and gone on a spree of kickass revenge like these lions...


• The Marcos Chin illustration in the background makes this even better: Express Train 6/28 (if you don't know Travis Ruse's photoblog, he takes amazing daily pix of people on the subways—check him out)


• Quikmaps is supposed to be a great new mapping tool, but I see myself doing some serious procrastinatory damage with this thing. I'm already the nerd who screenshots GoogleMaps and tailors the views to suit my traveling purposes—I even put them on my iPod. Now you give me the capability to scribble and pinpoint right on the interface??? It's no wonder I never leave the house...


• I just can't condone the Star Wars belt buckles. Is nerdneck a word? It is now.


• Um, speaking of nerds, this conversation is right up there in the ranks: "Superman's Kryptonian biological makeup is enhanced by Earth's yellow sun. If Lois gets a tan, the kid could kick right through her stomach. Only someone like Wonder Woman has a strong enough uterus to carry his kid. The only way he could bang regular chicks is with a kryptonite condom."


• I love that thirtysomethings are so crazy to meet people and blow off steam that they band together and play kickball.