High Gas Prices Mean Fewer Traffic Fatalities (1)
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We noted earlier a study from the Harvard Medical School that calculated that for every 10% increase in gas prices there was a 2.3% decline in auto deaths. Now a new report from Michael Sivak of the Transportation Research Institute at the University of Michigan finds an even more dramatic fall. Associated Press reports that: Over the previous 10 months, monthly fatalities declined an average of 4.2 percent compared to the previous year. Then, Sivak's ...
TRANSPORTATION TUES: Peugeot Unveils 2008 Concept Cars (2)
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Every year, Peugeot launches a contest call for entries from the international design community to showcase their talents in a concept car showdown. The theme for this year’s contest requested that they imagine a Peugeot in the megalopolis of tomorrow, and by the looks of the entries, (such as the Stylight above), they definitely delivered. If you think that you’ve seen concept vehicles, you ain’t seen nothing yet. (more…)
Adium 1.3 released (28)
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Filed under: Software, Open SourceMulti-service, open source and free chat client Adium received a new point release tonight, with new features and a redesigned interface for viewing contact information. Adium 1.3 features the following goodies: Get Info Window is now called the "Contact Inspector" The aforementioned Contact Inspector has a newly redesigned interface that allows for faster retrieval of contact information Facebook chat is now integrated into Adium 1.3 Standard contact window list now features ...
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Tom said:
This means those of us who have been using the beta releases to access Facebook chat can finally switch back to a stable release again.
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Boxpuppy said:
Now if they got the functionality of Digsby with it's Facebook integration, this would be a much better app. In the meantime, it's just "eh" to me.
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Marco Ponce said:
Awe shizzy! This is my most used mac app fo sho! Nice to see the improvments :)
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George Tziralis said:
facebook chat now working
The Complete Reference for Any jQuery Developer (3)
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Free library of iPhone UI elements (45)
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Filed under: Developer, iPhone, SDK iPhone developers! Do you need to make a quick mockup of your iPhone app for a presentation to venture capitalists? Don't struggle with creating your own UI elements. Geoff Teehan and crew have come up with a Photoshop PSD library full of UI assets that you can use to whip up a mockup of that killer app in time for the meeting with Mr. Moneybags.The PSD file is now at ...
Ultra Modern House on Australia Gold Coast (3)
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This ultra contemporary house is located in the Paradise Point suburb of Australia’s Gold Coast. I love how this house looks from the outside, but I don’t know why the interior reminds me of a shopping mall, huge …with so little things in it. The 14-room house is thoughtfully planned to offer open-concept social spaces and private spaces. The spacious mail level mirrors the modern and geometric elements of the home’s exterior, with high ceilings, ...
SmallestDotNet: On the Size of the .NET Framework (15)
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There's been some confusion about the size of the .NET Framework. The .NET Framework is not really a 200+ meg download. Which installer do I use? Here's the whole thing in a nutshell for Developers, ISVs, and Administrators. Offline Installer - One single file that can be run offline and can install the .NET Framework any system it's run on. It's complete, all platforms, installable offline. Online Installer - A 2.7 meg setup program that ...
The Ultimate Steal – WOW !!! (3)
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Now is a really good time to be a student. See the full terms and eligibility of this promotion for the school listings, validation, etc. Another piece of information that caught my eye is the program length. Here’s a snip from the page on that: Promotion Duration: This offer commences at 12:00PM Pacific Daylight Savings Time on July 1, 2008 and all purchases must be made via the Promotion web site by 11:59PM Pacific Standard ...
PureText (3)
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PureText is one of the first tools I always find myself missing as soon as I set up a new Windows box. Have you ever copied some text from a web page or a document and then wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple by adding a new Windows hot-key (default is WINDOWS+V) that allows you to paste text ...
Red-Light Cameras Just Don&8217;t Work (41)
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Vito Rispo, on the danger of red-light cameras: In fact, six U.S. cities have been found guilty of shortening the yellow light cycles below what is allowed by law on intersections equipped with cameras meant to catch red-light runners. Those local governments have completely ignored the safety benefit of increasing the yellow light time and decided to install red-light cameras, shorten the yellow light duration, and collect the profits instead. Despicable. (Via Jack Shedd.) ★
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micampe said:
ah, non si fa solo in italia allora...
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bbebop said:
those dirty bureaucrats!
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James B said:
Despicable indeed.
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Geoffrey Wiseman said:
Wow - surprising, and fascinating.
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Nivi said:
From the Department of Unintended Side Effects
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Doug Stewart said:
Philly's increasingly doing this and it's terrible.
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adam said:
"In fact, six U.S. cities have been found guilty of shortening the yellow light cycles below what is allowed by law on intersections equipped with cameras meant to catch red-light runners. Those local governments have completely ignored the safety benefit of increasing the yellow light time and decided to install red-light cameras, shorten the yellow light duration, and collect the profits instead."
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dj empirical said:
as adam said, big surprise.
ForEach, a simple but very useful extension method - Glenn Block (3)
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This evening I was writing some code (Yay!) for an Xml based MEF catalog I am prototyping. I came across the need to invoke a set of methods on an IEnumerable<T> that was returned from a LINQ to XML query. Unfortunately no such animal exists on IEnumerable. It took me < 5 mins to write this 1: public static class IEnumerableUtils 2: { 3: public static void ForEach<T>(this IEnumerable<T> collection, Action<T> action) 4: { 5: ...
Contemporary Family Home That Looks Like a Castle : Lymm Water Tower House (3)
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Designed by Ellis Williams Architects, the award-winning ( won a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) award.) Lymm Water Tower House is a project that converted a Water Tower Situated in the historic village of Lymm, into a contemporary family home. The basis for this opulent design – a 130-year-old water tower – rises five stories above Cheshire, England’s countryside, and offers 360-degree views of the world beyond its multitude of floor-to-ceiling windows. The project ...
Time for a New Drive (3)
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My Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro has had several scary incidents of late. There's been no concrete verdict on the issue, but each time I describe the symptoms to smart friends, they all say it sounds like a bad hard drive. After the latest little scare that yielded no concrete hints but had the same smell to it, I took a hint and picked up a 320GB replacement drive and cracked open my MacBook Pro. ...
Improving Font Rendering in Ubuntu (1)
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I don't really know much about fonts, but I still love them; particularly monospaced fonts for writing code. I've tried a lot of monospace fonts over the years, including two of my past favorites: Consolas and, more recently, DejaVu Sans Mono. Great fonts both. However, I'm a huge fan of Damien Guard's Envy Code R font. It's an absolutely beautiful font all around and Damien has put a lot of effort into making it very ...
Losing weight is a game (1)
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You might have read in my previous blog posts that I’m currently on a mission to lose some weight, keeping my calories down to 1500 a day. It seems to be working well, but it also means that I’m reading more about the subject too. I came across a great post that talks about why Weight Watchers is so successful, it turns the whole process of weight loss into the equivalent of an RPG. Here’s ...
Mindscape Visual Studio File Explorer (1)
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In the spirit of supporting New Zealand made I’ve just installed the free Visual Studio File Explorer Add-In from Mindscape. It’s a neat idea, and in theory it should suit my developing style pretty well. The Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in (sexy name we know, but hey, it’s self documenting) is a free Tool Window add-in for VS 2008 that provides a Windows Explorer style file system view. It’s particularly useful for performing routine file ...
Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children (110)
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A Hong Kong computer programmer who had legally resided in the US for 15 years (since he was 17) and fathered two American children went for his final green card interview and was locked up, detained until he died of cancer that the DHS refused to treat him for. He had overstayed a visa (the DHS sent a key notice to the wrong address), and this prompted the DHS to lock him away and demand ...
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André said:
Land of the free.
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Chris De Vries said:
Man's inhumanity to man.
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gyakusetsu said:
Stop Apartheid!
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David said:
Another violation of human rights by the 'land of the free'
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Michael said:
I have no words... I feel sick.
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dekrazee1 said:
Oh my...
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CKL said:
Disgraceful. We're all living in a Kafka novel these days.
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Derrick said:
Bureaucracy: Is there anything it can't louse up? Then again, even the faceless machine of civil process can hardly excuse such a repugnant travesty. Interestingly, or horrifyingly, after nearly 40 years, we still haven't learned anything from the Stanford prison experiment.
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Cheryl said:
Absolutely disgusting behavior by this US government office. Everyone involved should be fired and/or jailed.
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Greg said:
God Bless America and our Private Prison-Military-Industrial-Congressional complex.
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Yusuf said:
The land of the free!
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Jonathan said:
This is beyond shameful.
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Preeti Desai said:
I have no words...
.NET 3.5 SP1: Changes Overview (4)
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For the curious, here are some informations about the brand new .NET 3.5 SP1 changes, compared to .NET 3.5. These results were obtained with the assembly comparison feature of the tool NDepend. Summary:# Assemblies 112# Namespaces 919 to 935 (+16 +1.7%)# Types 39 988 to 40 513 (+525 +1.3%)# Methods 387 421 to 386 790 (-631 -0.2%)# Fields 241 567 to 246 795 (+5 228 +2.2%)# IL instructions 8 598 933 to 8 620 940 ...
SoundMeter for iPhone (14)
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Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Odds and ends, iPhone, App StoreDo you need to make basic sound level measurements? For example, do you want to prove that your next door neighbor really is playing music loud enough to make your ears bleed?Faber Acoustical is coming to your rescue with their US$19.99 SoundMeter for iPhone. They discovered that both the built-in and headset microphones of the iPhone have a flat enough frequency response to make them useful ...
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Mike Aizatsky said:
$19.99... Is it a joke?
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symesc said:
How can you not love what is happening on the iPhone platform?
Free Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in (2)
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The Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in (sexy name we know, but hey, it’s self documenting) is a free Tool Window add-in for VS 2008 that provides a Windows Explorer style file system view. It’s particularly useful for performing routine file system tasks without the need to “context switch” away from Visual Studio, which can be time-consuming over the course of days and weeks. It’s main features include: Fully Shell Enabled – So shell extensions like ...
