World's Tallest Bridge Goes Up in China with the Help of Some Rockets (1)
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In China, they're currently working on the Siduhe Grand Bridge, what will be the tallest bridge in the world when completed. How tall is it? Well, let's just say that you could put the Empire State Building in the valley below it and it wouldn't touch the bridge, with a whopping 360 feet of overhead. So how do you get cables across a chasm that large to build a bridge with? Rockets, of course.
The Bamboo Builder (1)
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As a child growing up in northern China, Yan Xiao loved flying kites. A born engineer, he made them himself out of paper sails and plain bamboo frames. The kites were durable and cheap. Xiao left China at age 22 to study civil engineering in Japan and the U.S. but returned as a visiting professor at Hunan University in 2002. On a trip to the region’s vast bamboo forests, the memory of those kites gave ...
where the wind blows right through you (1)
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New York City, in the pouring rain. Above, Manhattan Bridge, sketched from Brooklyn during a brief lull in the downpour. I was down under manhattan bridge overpass, in an area named after a disney film (i forget which). Seems like everybody was in New York last weekend.The Lower East Side; headed there after the rain stopped, but as the darkness crept in. I don't mean that awful Suffolk based pretend-rock band.And finally Fifth Avenue, early ...
Health Insurance: Why Markets Are a Better Bet Than Government (1)
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Two trends in job-based health benefits demonstrate why markets are a better bet than government for containing health-care costs and preserving choice. Today’s New York Times reports: even if they are fortunate enough to have a job at a company that still offers health benefits, many workers are finding that the buffet of options has been trimmed to a very short menu… this year, at more than 100 large companies and hundreds of smaller ones ...
The VC model is broken (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat) (5)
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: The VC model is broken — These days, the more you talk to folks about Silicon Valley's venture capital industry, the more negative the message is becoming. — And for good reason. There's no more patience. Last time, circa 2001, the entire VC industry got a “get-out-jail-free card” after the Internet bubble burst.
MORE CHEESE? (1)
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Picture: Deadmea7?Good evening people! How are you today? I'm sick actually, not good... I hope it will be better soon. However, tonight I've found some very good tracks, yehhh. There are many kind of styles in this post, so if you listen to the tracks you'll see. Enjoy & serve them iiiiiicecold! ;)Deadmau5 - The Reward Is More Cheese (Original Mix)Spencer & Hill - Most Wanted (Original Mix)Sash - Stay (Fonzerelli Re-work)*thx to 1408*Todd Terry ...
The Copenhagen Gateway Sees Your Dubai and Raises it 65 Meters [Architecture] (19)
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Copenhagen threw an international competition to design a bridge that would connect their office buildings and civic spaces. Two towers connect their two pedestrian bridges 65 meters above the sea with an remarkably disjointed style that, frankly, looks a bit scary to walk upon. The Langenlinine tower (left) uses the old harbor as its geometric inspiration and features bright orange soffits. Meanwhile, the Marmormolen tower (right) draws its inspiration as the city's gateway, mimicking the ...
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The architect for the building on the left in the first photo did the dorm I lived in for 3 years at MIT
WordPress Plugins Releases for 10/30 (1)
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New Plugins MagpieRSS Hotfix for Enclosures This hotfix adds support for RSS enclosures to MagpieRSS, the RSS feed parser behind the fetch_rss() function in WordPress. Tylr Slidr This is a WordPress plugin that makes the process of adding a Flickr slideshow to your site much easier. Upload RapidShare Upload your file to Rapidshare IE Warning Shows nice and simple splash to your visitors with Internet Explorer WP Unique Article Header Image Allows you to add/associate ...
Seoul's Banpo Bridge Turns into Gigantic Fountain, Puts NYC's Waterfalls to Shame [Water] (5)
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The Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea just got a major facelift in the form of a 10,000-nozzle fountain that runs all the way along both its sides. They were just installed last month, but already the bridge has turned into a major tourist attraction. Which is understandable, as I've certainly never driven over a bridge that's pumping out 190 tons of water per minute. And since it's just pulling up water from the river ...
Bridges to Nowhere (1)
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Drivers on the A10 ring road in Amsterdam can be forgiven for any confusion experienced when they see this incomplete section of highway bridge. We’re not sure what happened - maybe the construction crew finished up early one Friday afternoon and by the following Monday had forgotten what they were supposed to be building? Meanwhile in Tehran, a similar situation seems to be coming to an end. We’re told this bridge sat unconnected to anything ...
Yahoo Rolls out Enterprise Web Analytics (1)
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Sometime in May, Yahoo has acquired a web service company called IndexTools. Now, several months after Yahoo is making use of their acquisition with a new service Web Analytics for Business websites. This service helps to create a feedback mechanism for e-merchants, website owners, advertisers and developers. It provides data and insights which will be useful for evaluating marketing performance and tweaking website designs as well. (more…)
Gateway to the Americas (1)
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The Laredo International Bridge 1 is one of four road bridges that cross the Rio Grande to connect the cities of Laredo, USA and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The 320 m long bridge is officially known as the Gateway to the Americas International Bridge (Wikipedia) and, as we can see from this satellite shot, the sheer volume of cars waiting to get into the states really help it to live up to its name - nearly ...
9 amazingly unique bridges you may not have seen (1)
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[unrelated update - following muxtape's frustrating demise as soon as i embedded the player here on deputydog, i've found an alternative called 8tracks, check it out. i've also embedded a music player underneath the blogroll in the sidebar so you can listen to my selection through your lugholes] it’s time for a list about brilliant bridges, but not the bridges you normally see in these kinds of lists. i wanted to avoid the usual suspects ...
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The state will have to spend $4 million to replace road signs reflecting the renaming of the Triborough Bridge for Robert F. Kennedy.Shared by Patrick (14)Contribute comment
