5 month ago
philgyford : Your London - Living - "This website lets you search for food businesses across London to find out the hygiene rating they achieved from their last food hygiene inspection." Am I Being Poisoned Or Not? (via Haddock)
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Linkorama : Just Breathe: Building the case for Email Apnea - I've just opened my email and there's nothing out of the ordinary there. It's the usual daily flood of schedule, project, travel, information, and junk mail. Then I notice...I'm holding my breath.
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9 month ago
WillPate : Volvo Safety Tech Removes the Weakest Link You
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14 month ago
43folders : Parents' stress and sleep deprivation can be a danger to children - "Always place something in the backseat...that requires you to open the back door every time you park." Life-saving life hacks. (scroll down)
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15 month ago
nelson : No raw milk camembert? - The big cheese producers both switch to using treated milk
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16 month ago
Linkorama : Open source parenting - Citizen media for toy safety
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21 month ago
deusx : Peter Miller - Magnetic Yellow Card - "This magnet was tossed onto your car by a cyclist who felt that you might have been driving in a way that could have endangered their life."
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cameron : FAA requires all airlines to have lap-airbags by 2009 - Research shows that many airline crash fatalities are avoidable. This WSJ article has some interesting video and photos of the lap-bag in use.
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22 month ago
plasticbag : A team of experts has drawn up five "grand challenges" in order to evaluate the safety of nanotechnology... - This seems mostly concerned with the creation of new particulates rather than with any of the so-far science-fiction grey-goo assemblers that people tend to get so tense about...
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24 month ago
jimray : Economist.com - "In-flight announcements are not entirely truthful. What might an honest one sound like?"
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24 month ago
Rod Begbie : Economist.com: Welcome aboard - What an honest in-flight announcement would sound like. [via] #
plasticbag : Spotted on Dan Hill's weblog - the honest in flight announcements of the future? - "In-flight announcements are not entirely truthful. What might an honest one sound like?"
François Nonnenmacher : Welcome aboard - In-flight announcements are not entirely truthful. What might an honest one sound like?
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jimray : Dell Recalls Batteries Because of Fire Threat - "This will be the largest safety recall in the history of the consumer electronics industry, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said."
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26 month ago
deusx : WORKSAFE's FREE Photo Page - "As of May 2004, SAFTENG will be posting WORKSAFE's weekly Shocker and Bodgey Scaffolding photos here as a way of saying THANKS for what they do to help us all in improving our safety efforts!"
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27 month ago
merlinmann : Applied Cognition Laboratory (U of Utah) - "The long-term objective or our research is to understand the impact of using advanced in-car technologies on driving performance and traffic safety."
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philgyford : Sign Builder 2.0 - Industrial Signage - Excellent web tool for generating PDF signs with standard icons. Hours of ANSI standard fun. (via Cool Tools)
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42 month ago
jimray : Wear. A. Helmet. - Self-employed designer with no health insurance + (bike race - helmet) = $10k in medical bills
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