Of course this planet is messed up, it’s bi-polar.
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This morning I rode the bootlegged Bedford Ave bike lane while listening to pirated music and wearing knock off Converse shoes.
A source close to Mayor Bloomberg said removing the lanes was an effort to appease the Hasidic community just before last month’s election.
Still, asking for the data is often not enough. Software developers in New York have been unsuccessful in getting data feeds of pedestrian and bicyclist injuries and fatalities from the Police Department, said Noel Hidalgo, who is director of technology innovation for the New York State Senate and has been working with developers on building city-data applications. He envisions applications that overlay accident information on city bike maps.
Grackle68K 0.0.9 is a Twitter client for 68K Macs running System 6 through Mac OS 9. The developer says “Also, if you use resedit to put your username and password in the obvious STR resource, you won’t have to enter it when you start the program. It would be nice if you didn’t have to use ResEdit, but why not open ResEdit and reminisce anyway?”
This is a great way for citizens to navigate a system as complex as the New York Senate. It makes me believe that the creators thought a great deal about user experience and how people search – and for a government site that is a huge accomplishment. What is really exceptional is that they didn’t stop with search but also allow commenting on legislation and is available in formats like XML and JSON.
“When will these so-called ‘disruptive technologies’ become acknowledged as ‘future technologies?’” – @jeffjarvis via @laurelatoreilly
Cycling simply doesn’t need new product lines every year. If you let things grow for awhile instead of harvesting them on an annual basis then sometimes you can yield something of actual value. Plus, interesting product developments don’t follow a calendar or come from where you’d expect. In fact, just as hallucinogenic mushrooms grow on cow dung, inspiration can sometimes come from repugnant sources.
holy crap, i know people who are on the wave!
add me to be your friend “noel@noneck.org”
Printed writing is very much design-led these days in adverts and Web sites, and people feel that hyphens mess up the look of a nice bit of typography,” he said. “The hyphen is seen as messy looking and old-fashioned.