Link About It: This Week’s Picks

David Byrne's Tight Spot, Tokyo subway posters, Land Rover's new concept car and more in this week's look at the web

1. NYC Bike-Share Portland, OR-based Alta Bicycle Share was recently chosen by the Bloomberg administration to populate the streets of America’s largest metropolis with public bicycle rental stations by summer 2012. 2. A Family Tree For Video Game Controllers The “definite history of the video game controller,” Pop Chart Lab‘s all-encompassing infographic plots the controller’s design evolution from classic joysticks to the modern racing wheel. …

Tokyo Subway Manner Posters, 1976-1982

David Byrne's Tight Spot, Tokyo subway posters, Land Rover's new concept car and more in this week's look at the web

Retronaut showcases an awesome assortment of subway posters, culled from the stations of Tokyo. Superman reminds you not to chew gum and a sexual sami-ashi tells you to wait behind the white line.

Radioactive Orchestra

David Byrne's Tight Spot, Tokyo subway posters, Land Rover's new concept car and more in this week's look at the web

Science and making music become one with this nuclear physics synthesizer. By selecting any combination of known Isotopes in the Chart of Nuclides the user is free to make beats and melodies of varying pace, pitch and style.