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Is driving better than cycling?
via Boing Boing by David Pescovitz on May 13, 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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Charter ISP will track every site its users visit
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 13, 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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Page 2 - 10 Apps That Met Google`s Android Dev Challenge
via www.eweek.com by (author unknown) on May 18, 2008
Page 2 - 10 Apps That Met Google`s Android Dev Challenge
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He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
via madsimian's spittoon by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
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iPhone 2.0 Worldwide Launch on June 9th | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
via blog.wired.com by (author unknown) on May 26, 2008
A June 9 launch date for the iPhone 2? No surprises there, and now it looks like inside sources are confirming the June 9 date, which is also when Steve
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Last.fm Quietly Rolls Out New Beta Features, Points to Expanded Subscription | Listening Post from Wired.com
via blog.wired.com by (author unknown) on May 26, 2008
Shared by Joshua wow .. I have been a last.fm subscriber in the past, but let things lapse in an uncertainty about what subscription actually got me. I'm still an active user, and at a glance this looks like a worthy reason to subscribe again.As the first anniversary of its $280 million acquisition by CBS draws near, Last.fm has unveiled a new beta version with a more powerful design and a...
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WikiProteins: a collaborative space for biologists to annotate proteins
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 27, 2008
The WikiProfessional project (like Wikipedia, but for narrow and deep exploration of highly specialized domains) just launched with its first beta wiki: WikiProteins is a place where biologists can collectively annotate an enormous database of proteins, a database culled from the best open science journals in the field. The new paper describes a major advantage to this approach. Traditionally,...
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European airlines test spycams in every seat that "detect terrorism" in your facial expressions
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 29, 2008
European airlines are prototyping a Panopticon-in-the-sky: cameras trained on every passenger in flight, married to some kind of snake-oil "terrorism detection" software that will be able to tell if the guy in 11J is planning to rush the cockpit. .The European Union's Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment (SAFEE) project uses a camera in every passenger's seat, with six...
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Optimus Prime T-Shirt Transforms into Arrest Threat at Airport [Transformers]
via Gizmodo by Kit Eaton on June 01, 2008
We love Transformers here at Giz, but it looks like the UK's already slightly-crazed authorities don't. A guy called Brad Jayakody was recently barred from boarding a flight at Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5 because his T-shirt had a picture of Optimus Prime brandishing a gun.Yup, you got it: a cartoon robot with a stylized cartoon laser gun pissed off an airport guard so much that...
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Griffin WindowSeat - windshield mount for iPhone & iPod
via Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women by Evan on May 30, 2008
What good is your iPhone or iPod touch if you can't get to it? WindowSeat gives your device the best seat in the car by mounting handily at eye level on your car's windshield or dashboard, putting all of your street maps, directions etc. safely in view and easily within reach. Attaches with silicone suction pads and allows easy access to dock connector and headphone jack. When you leave...
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