3 month ago
veen : Bikeway or the Highway - March/April 2008 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club - "IN 1900, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANS CREATED a futuristic traffic structure catering to the mechanical marvel of the day--the bicycle. It opened along a corridor known as the Arroyo Seco, named for the seasonal stream that flows from the San Gabriel Mount
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8 month ago
Andy Baio : Improv Anywhere's Best Little League Game Ever - hopefully, they managed to avoid post-gig bitterness
adamrg : Best Game Ever at Improv Everywhere - I love it. Pure fun.
Rod Begbie : Best Game Ever - Improv Everywhere make a Little League baseball game into a massive event. Lovely. [via] #
philgyford : Best Game Ever at Improv Everywhere - Brings a tear to my eye. Another lovely, lovely event.
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14 month ago
veen : What Will U.S. Air Travel Look Like in Ten Years? A Freakonomics Quorum - It will look not that good. But also not that bad.
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16 month ago
veen : Passengers Scowl as Airlines Smile - New York Times - “Previously, airlines worried about dissatisfied customers,” said a Wharton professor, Serguei Netessine. “Now I don’t think they worry about it because the customer service at all airlines is so horrible.”
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19 month ago
jimray : Cascade Bicycle Club: Seattle, Washington; STP, Seattle to Portland Bike Ride, Bike To Work, Bike Expo, Ride Around Washington, RAW, bicycle advocacy, bicycle education
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27 month ago
kellan : Gothamist: Map of the Day: Getting to Work (and more!) - How people get to work in NYC. Red is cars, blue is public transit, green is walking #
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Cameron Marlow talks about privacy, transparency and the Facebook controversy - I've been thinking about this a lot recently and have come to the conclusion that it's never so much about how private something is, it's about how much it deviates from what people expected the privacy level to be in that particular service...
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28 month ago
joshua : Pretty amazing way to move a boat - boats on a train
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28 month ago
kellan : Google: "one trillion words from public Web pages." - note to self, revisit Hadoop #
Paul Hammond : Official Google Research Blog: All Our N-gram are Belong to You - We processed 1,011,582,453,213 words of running text and are publishing the counts for all 1,146,580,664 five-word sequences that appear at least 40 times
joshua : Official Google Research Blog: All Our N-gram are Belong to You - i wish this wasn't $150
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30 month ago
cameron : BVG.de - Es lebe Berlin. - Startseite - Berlin subway/tram system maps/route planning
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32 month ago
veen : CNN.com - Senators to push for $100 gas rebate checks - Apr 27, 2006 - I haven't driven a car in four months. How much do I get?
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32 month ago
joshua : Hybrid vehicle purchase Incentives : Federal Tax Credits & State Incentives
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33 month ago
kellan : GeoNames.org: compilation of public domain gazateers, normalized on name, altitude and population - And then provided via REST or a download. 6 million entries including 2.2 million cities and villages #
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37 month ago
kellan : Smile Boston Project - As just seen in June Bug. (paging KidRobot, I'd love to buy a HK vinyl version of some of these paintings) #
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37 month ago
kellan : Driving = Death - I wonder if Y! employees will revolt en masse? (certainly would make working their more appealing) #
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38 month ago
Rod Begbie : Flight Patterns - Some beautiful visualizations generated from FAA data of all flights over the USA one day in March. [via] #
veen : Flight Patterns - Beautiful visualizations of North American air traffic
jkottke : Flight pattern visualizations - Beautiful flight pattern visualizations over the US based on data from the FAA. (via ia) [via]
gleuschk : Amazing Flight Pattern simulations - reminds me of War Games
philgyford : Flight Patterns - Gorgeous animations of flights over the US. Better than it sounds. (via Kottke)
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38 month ago
merlinmann : A Prairie Home Companion from American Public Media - Man, Garrison Keillor loves him some copyright.
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39 month ago
kellan : Seattle Monorail has a Posse stickers - Nice! #
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41 month ago
jkottke : Huge collection of logos of metros/subways from around the world
joshua : Variations of the Letter M - and other metro logos
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