Links: parking, sex, MS, malls, maps

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YA another analysis of parking requirements adding to the cost of housing
http://daily.sightline.org/2013/08/22/apartment-blockers/

critical review of sex trafficking book
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/27/sex-trafficking/

decline of microsoft via ranking employees
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/23/stack_ranking_steve_ballmer_s_employee_evaluation_system_and_microsoft_s.html

anti-malls?
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/08/weve-entered-age-anti-mall/6663/#.UhvfBHurrns.facebook
declining malls
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/malls_and_big_boxes_continue_t.html
urban blight insurance for future projects

homelessness declined, sequester may raise it
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/08/astonishing-decline-homelessness-america/6674/
Bush deserves credit
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/30homelessweb.html?_r=0

racial dot map
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/08/strangely-beautiful-map-race-america/6534/
time-lapse Earth
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2013/05/terrifying-fascinating-timelapse-30-years-human-impact-earth-gifs/5540/

two sleeps
http://slumberwise.com/science/your-ancestors-didnt-sleep-like-you/

human nitrogen cycle. most altered cycle. add as much or more as natural
fixation. pollution has converted Dutch heathland to grassland.
contributes to ozone and pollution, greenhouse, ozone destruction
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1247398/

flight map contrail map
http://contrailscience.com/interactive-flight-map-visualization/
income map
http://www.richblockspoorblocks.com/
protest map
http://www.ultraculture.org/watch-a-jaw-dropping-visualization-of-every-protest-since-1979/

pharma lobby and meth labs
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/meth-pseudoephedrine-big-pharma-lobby

useless medicine
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/medical-procedures-may-be-useless-or-worse/?_r=1

parking requirement maps
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/08/exposed-americas-totally-inconsistent-minimum-parking-requirements/6598/
mosque practically required to have more space than churches

USPS tracking mail like NSA
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

occupational surnames
http://www.historytoday.com/cm-matthews/surnames-occupation

Roman food found
http://www.newser.com/story/172474/crazy-shipwreck-find-2k-year-old-roman-food.html