The MBTA is putting up brightly colored signs that sort of look like radically simplified QR codes as part of a pilot to try to help the visually impaired better get around the system with the help of a phone app that can read the signs. Read more.

Matt Frank looked up while walking around downtown Boston tonight, and framed the moon and what might be Jupiter in the middle of a Downtown Crossing illuminated star design (Jupiter is a little hard to see, but is to the right of the moon and down a bit).

There's an art installation of what looks like a satellite crashed into the hood of an Altima parked on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing (not to be confused with one of the art installations that look like giant pink blobby guys). Of course, you're not supposed to park on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing, even if a satellite just crashed into you car, so somebody at BTD wrote it a ticket.

A guy who goes by Terrible Ideas is on a quest to find the farthest point from Boston where he can stand and still see the city. In this video, he shows us his four, count 'em, four, treks to the top of Mt. Kearsarge, up past Concord, NH, to see if he can spot our fair Hub. Foiled by an incoming storm and haze, he fails on the first three tries, but finally, he succeeds at sunrise and gets to see, if barely, the taller buildings downtown and in the Back Bay.

H/t Angry Dan.

The MBTA reported signal problems near Broadway this morning meant rush-hour delays of up to a half hour on the Red Line. And as Your Favorite Deer's Favorite Deer reported, an impromptu homage to the Clash at Park Street: Read more.

NBC Boston reports (with video of non-aquatic drivers just trying to survive the flood) MassDOT spent the night pumping out the tunnel.

The city announced today that Joanne Chang's Flour has won a lease to re-open the former Earl of Sandwich kiosk on Boston Common this coming spring. Read more.

The view of downtown from the Bates School parking lot in Roslindale at 4:05 this afternoon.

And yes, the Hancock wanted to get in on the act: Read more.

The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved developer Greg McCarthy's plans to convert a vacant six-story office building at 129 Portland St. into 25 apartments. Read more.

Bertucci's says it plans to open a new, smaller outlet, dubbed Bertucci's Pronto, at 18 Tremont St., near Court and Cambridge streets downtown this spring.

Its proposed 34-seat location will be open not just for lunch and dinner, but for breakfast as well, for people who have been hungering for a downtown place to grab a breakfast pizza, and yes, that is a thing.