John Metcalfe
John Metcalfe is a staff writer at The Atlantic Cities.
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Nerd Alert: Turn Google Street View Maps into Animated ASCII
An ingenious little program makes your city look like The Matrix.
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Videos
This Is Why You Don't Mind-Meld With Your Smartphone in the Subway
Philadelphia officials want to combat such painful examples of "distracted walking."
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Dodging Bulls and Gunshots on New Jersey's 19th-Century 'Bicycle Railroad'
No trace of the primitive people mover remains, except an extremely colorful history.
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A Glow-in-the-Dark Skate Park for Nocturnal Thrashing
Now French skaters can Ollie North any time of the day, thanks to the equivalent of a million fireflies' cumulative photon storm.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: New Jersey Town Bullied By Aggressive Turkeys
Also, Spokane bans malt liquor after a rash of drunken crimes and Austria outlaws noisy cows.
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Does This 13-Foot-Tall Japanese Robot Really Exist?
We're calling B.S. on this fully armed, $1.3 million deathbot.
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Videos
Brooklyn Volcano Claims a Sacrificial Car
One more reason not to park over a manhole.
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Toilet Tuesday
Death for the World's Largest Eco-Bathroom
All the bathroom news that's fit to print.
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Urban Wonk
Inside the Surprisingly Lucrative World of Cardboard Theft
With the help of a rental truck, you too can cash in on the multimillion-dollar cardboard-rustling business.
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Photos
Terrify Your Fellow Bikers With This Glowing Anglerfish-Cycle
Who doesn't want to ride around Australia inside a marine predator's gaping maw?
