Stories
The Cello Music of the Spheres - Nautilus
Slide-Show Poetry: Closing down the bungalow - The New Yorker
From SimCity to SimCity: The history of city-builders - Ars Technica
Review
Hallberg's 'City on Fire' - NYT Book Review
Funnies
(Charles, I just talked to John and Mildred, who run that company selling seeds and nuts, and their kids with MOUTHS are starving!- Moments of Inspiration, XKCD 1584)[http://xkcd.com/1584/]
Confession: I share this and save the reading for when I have downtime during the work week. Excited to read the city-builders article in particular.
I've been playing Cities:Skylines now for about 200 hours and this is what the new Sim City should have been. There are still issues that I have with the game, but mods are there and take care of most of them. If you have steam and like city builders, try it out when it is on sale.