Future Use Construction Site
Visitors, FutureUse.org is revamping.  Crane operators and ground excavators are toiling the site. In the meantime, visit the old Future Use and read up… http://futureuse.blogspot.com/
Visitors, FutureUse.org is revamping.  Crane operators and ground excavators are toiling the site. In the meantime, visit the old Future Use and read up… http://futureuse.blogspot.com/
Check out a recent essay by Future Use at tap-shoe hermenaut web journal THE CHISELER: CLEO A profile of the early 1970s warzone between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army, in the context of the FBI adding Assata Shakur to the Top Ten Most Wanted Terrorist List…
Probably no one cares anymore, but early this month, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell claimed “the Left†bugged his office in Louisville and whistleblew the recordings to Mother Jones, a butcher-block political news journal named after Mary Harris Jones, the turn-of-the-century labor provocateuse born in Cork, Ireland. In 1913, while on trial for organizing coal miners…
Hollywood is a business of imagination, and it must mercilessly tub-thump that imagination in order to stay in business. It always ends up once step ahead of the audience, no matter how bad the movie. Last weekend, the Writers Guild of America handed out their best screenplay awards. Argo won for Best Adapted, and Zero…
Double Jeopardy (1999) is a Hollywood thriller starring potential Kentucky Senate candidate Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones, two actors Future Use always finds it a joy and provocation to watch act. The movie, like any good tinseltown popcorn-and-soda job, plays credibility like a card sharp, but its true merit is the juicy lesson the…
Future Use recently posted a couple writings on the ripsnorting history-hitchhike web journal THE CHISELER: The Racket BusterJust before WWII, Special Prosecutor John Harlan Amen led the largest investigation of city corruption in U.S. history. His target was Brooklyn. From Broadway to BombayMarty Reisman (1930-2012) was a table tennis champ and man-about-town. He hustled ping-pong…
Information can come in as handy as a roof and warm clothes. Below is an ongoing, overdue and incomplete list of resources on Hurricane Sandy: RELIEF New Jersey Hurricane Sandy resources NJ mobile insurance offices in Ocean, Monmouth & Middlesex Counties New York Extension ofEmergency Unemployment Benefits Legal assistance for disaster victims New Jersey Unemployment…
Future Use was en route to the job interview, waiting for the G train, when across the tracks on the opposite platform, a young man was mugged. Three youths punched him, snatched his iPhone, and ran. “Owwwww!†cried the young man, in polo shirt, rolled jeans and flipflops. It sounded like he had just tripped…
It is Search Week in New York City, a bonanza powwow of market researchers gathering at Jacob Javits Center for the Search Marketing Expo: Market researchers all dressed up and abuzz for Search Week. The declaration was made official by the Mayor, a prime advocate of business research, the industry in which he made his…
Last week news researchers were in full throttle hunting info on the identity of Sam Bacile, a/k/a Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a/k/a Erwin Salameh a/k/a Ahmed Hamdy a/k/a PJ Tobacco. Â This character made the movie which is said to have triggered the slew of deathly riots in the Arab World. Â It is a breaking…
While researching probate records at the Queens County Courthouse, I was nearly arrested by a gang of security guards. Sometimes I freelance as a proxy researcher for people out-of-town willing to pay for my crackerjack services in the hunt for genealogy information. The pursuit has taken me to numerous records rooms and archives in three…
A turn-of-the-century cartoon from Brooklyn Life, a local high society publication, which jibes the use of municipal space as a map of product placement: Brooklyn Life, Brooklyn Historical Society. Wonder what the blue pills are for… In July, the Metropolitan Transit Authority launched a plan to put commercial advertising on the face of MetroCards. The…
Brooklyn Historical Society Library. After all, the movies are about a guy tracking his past.
The Center for Land Use Interpretation “is a research and education organization interested in understanding the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth’s surface.” The Center is based in Los Angeles – a place which some say does not exist.  The Center veers the fjords within the fjords of information science, gag art…
“An Email Ain’t a Record?†Governor Andrew Cuomo was under the gun to explain his administration’s policy of failing to save digital correspondence. Office emails are routinely deleted and Cuomo communicates with his staff strictly using “Blackberry to Blackberry†messaging, which like the private files of J. Edgar Hoover are destroyed by protocol. The Huffington…