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Finish Line
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
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Is driving better than cycling?
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on May 14, 2008
Tomorrow, May 15, is Bike To Work Day in the San Francisco Bay Area. A persistent rumor claims that riding a bike is actually less efficient than driving a car if you account for the energy that goes into producing the food/drink that "fuels" a cyclist. The Sierra Club's "Mr. Green" calls bullshit on that. (Photo of BB pal Jess Hemerly from aGreatNotion's Flickr stream.) From the Sierra...
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Poor word choice on recruitment sign
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 14, 2008
Do any Boing Boing readers from Nashville know if this sign is real or a Photoshop job? (viaFor Your Entertainment)
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Taking pictures on LA's Red Line violates the "9/11 Law"
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 14, 2008
... You mean the Patriot Act?Him: No pictures.Me: Could you explain? What law do you mean?Him: You are lawyer?Me: No.Him: No pictures. You could be a terrorist. Very strict!Me: How about I take a picture of you?Him: F**k you...(I couldn't believe it either)He then proceeded to huddle in the corner and speak into his radio. Next thing I knew, a booming female voice very loudly announced over th...
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Charter ISP will track every site its users visit
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 14, 2008
... number of customers who don’t consider having their Internet activities tracked to be an enhancement.He responded several ways. He said that Charter convened focus groups of customers in two cities and found that most didn’t object when the program was explained to them. (A key aspect of the NebuAd system is that it claims not to record any personally identifiable information about use...
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SMS data rate is 4x more expensive than data from the Hubble
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 13, 2008
... because there are only 7 bits per character in the text messaging system, and we assume the average price for a text message is 5p. There are 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte, so that's 1 million/140 = 7490 text messages to transmit one megabyte. At 5p each, that's £374.49 per MB - or about 4.4 times more expensive than the ‘most pessimistic’ estimate for Hubble Space Telescope t...
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FLOGOS
via food for design by (author unknown) on May 10, 2008
Shared by Joshua this does not seem to be a joke...
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Train quarantined in Ontario after mystery illness hits passengers, one - International Herald Tribune
via www.iht.com by (author unknown) on May 09, 2008
Train quarantined in Ontario after mystery illness hits passengers, one
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Jealousy
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
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Some China firms outsourcing to USA to cut costs
via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin on May 07, 2008
An article in the LA Times this week on businesses from China bargain-hunting on operational costs by outsourcing to the USA:Liu Keli couldn't tell you much about South Carolina, not even where it is in the United States. It's as obscure to him as his home region, Shanxi province, is to most Americans.But Liu is investing $10 million in the Palmetto State, building a printing-plate...
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