JR: Cincinnati, you’ve only got a couple more weeks to check out this excellent exhibit at the Contemporary Art Center.
Congratulations, Ohio! You Are the Sweariest State in the Union: a dubious honor.
Green Man +: in Singapore, a cool innovation addresses the needs of elderly and disabled pedestrians who need more time to cross the road.
Senior Year Transfer: Retiring in a College Town: if I ever retire, I’d love to go back to school in some charming college town.
The Invention of Jaywalking: and what streets are for.
The Hand-Painted Signs of Cambodia: tons of awesome typographic eye candy.
Gingers of the World, Unite!: mapping redheads.
Department of Everyday Visualingual 
per Jaywalking
That book, Fighting Traffic, has some great graphics & photos from when people saw cars as a menace. They seem kinda strange today.
As far as the term jaywalking, he explains in the book that a jay was a hayseed, hillbilly type who didn’t know how to behave in a city.
Seems kinda funny that we have a legal term based on an ethnic slur.
Isn’t it weird that we use ethnic slurs in everyday speech like that? “Indian giver” comes to mind.