Assorted Links

1. Government surveillance planes routinely circle over most major cities in the USA
   
   
2. Neat 3D globe animation of atmospheric flow on Earth
   
   
3. Lego versions of Brutalist buildings (via Tyler Cowen)
   
   
4. An interactive tour to Bosch's “The Garden of Earthly Delights”
   
   
5. CityBikes API Documentation, via Leo Monasterio
   
   
6. Book: Batty & Longley (1994) Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function (ht Iury Lima)
   
   
7. What's really warming the world?
   
   
8. Top speeds of elevators in eight of the world's tallest buildings. I guess this proves that procrastination has no limits
   
   
9. Data-Mining photos from the Internet to create time-lapse videos - via Achim Tack