Pedestrian Survival Techniques
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Charlottesville ,
Transportation System
For the last few months, I've left my bike at home and made my way throughout town mostly on my own two feet. During this time, I've observed a clever strategy, used by countless walkers, for crossing two or three-lane streets. It's especially common among the regulars - the truckers of the pedestrian ...
Dave MacDowell: “ Lord of the Onion Rings ”
24” x 36”. Acryic on Canvas. Currently on display at Seattle’s Flatcolor Gallery through March 28.
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Today during a panel on disruptive game platforms at GDC’s GamesBeat, a panel of gaming execs took the stage to talk about the current situation in gaming. The standout speaker so far has been hi5 President and CTO Alex St. John , who has not pulled any punches in his criticisms of Facebook and other companies. Moments ago, he just attacked Zynga, calling its games mediocre and saying that it...
How To of the Day: “ How to transform your hoodie into a backpack ” — one of five fantastic 9-step tutorials designed to walk you through transforming a hoodie into several useful objects: A pillow , a computer sleeve , a strap bag , and a baby carrier .
If the pictorials aren’t doing it for you, there are matching demo videos to be found here .
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Kenya remains one of Africa's most developed countries, but has been dealt several setbacks in the past few years. Political and tribal conflicts, unstable neighbors (Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia), and a crushing drought last year have left much of Kenya on hold, trying to regain recent momentum. The tourist trade has begun to pick up, nearly returning to the record levels - $810 million dollars earne...
Ma volt tíz éve, hogy a NASDAQ 5132.52 pontnál tetőzött, ez volt az a pillanat, amikor kifogyott a lendület a kilencvenesek végét meghatározó dotcom-lázból. Innen már csak lefele vezetett az út, a piac összehúzta magát, kiszáradt a kockázatitőke-szökűkút és hosszú évekre szitokszóvá, de legalábbis gúnyolódás tárgyává vált a „dotcom cég” kifejezés és minden, ami a jelenséghez tartozott.
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On March 10, 2000, the Nasdaq peaked at 5,048.62. Then it promptly nose-dived, never to see that level again. Here's a look back at the era that launched — and crushed — a million dreams.
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A golfot mostanában mindenki a gazdagok játékának tekinti, pedig igazából nem másabb játék ez a többinél. Fogunk egy botot és jól megütjük a labdát, a végén örülünk, hogy beleesett, gurult a lyukba – kevesebb ütéstől, mit a másiké.
Tomasz Gudzowaty képsorozatában, ami a harmadik helyen végzett a POYi.org SPORTS PICTURE STORY kategóriájában egy indiai nyomortelepi fiatalokból álló golfozó tá...
I’ve realized that being Yoyogi my favorite park I haven’t written too much about it. Yoyogi park is not the most beautiful park in Tokyo; however it is the most lively and fun, mostly on weekends. At the entrance, every Sunday you can find the rockabillies , in the central part you can find all kinds of jugglers and “ninjas” ; in fact practically all over the park you can find people with goo...
I suspect this chicken is supposed to just look bored, but to me it looks like it’s contemplating acts of unspeakable darkness, so that’s the direction I went with here.
This is the first anthropomorphized animal in my run on this strip (not counting the horse in “Buffalo Soldier,” which had an explanation, albeit a stupid one.) I had to make the chicken the narrator because the thought bubbles...
UPDATE: Google Maps Bicycling Directions now live! I list the tips and tricks and secrets in this post.
Here’s a screenshot for biking directions from downtown Santa Cruz to the Santa Cruz Wharf. Below the static image is the embedded map from Google.
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Interesting findings on the service:
By default, when you select Bicycling directions, the map...