Not every bike lane is cause for a celebration. The addition of a bike lane on any given street is not necessarily a victory for citizen cyclists. In order to to be a worthy expansion of the cycling network, bike lanes should be installed (with appropriate contextual modifications) on streets where such an addition makes the roadway more conducive to comfortable cycling. Grand Avenue isn’t one of these streets. The addition of a bike lane between Orleans Street and Navy Pier in 2010, when no other changes were made to the street environment and design, did not make the street better to cycle on. There were preexisting issues that have remained long after the lane was striped. Here’s why cycling here now is no better than it was before: The street is very wide, which encourages higher speed traffic.
But when this traffic is jammed, it’s highly common to see drivers drift into the bike lane to see ahead. The street has insane undulations and cracks in the pavement, both parallel and perpendicular to traffic flow. 1. 2. 1. 2. Lollapolooza Light Says "Stop" -- shaking me... Demonoid Busted As A Gift To The United States Government. The nightmare week for Demonoid has just reached a huge crescendo, with news coming out of Ukraine that following a massive DDoS attack the site has now been busted by local authorities. Those looking for a U.S. connection to the raid won't be disappointed - a source in the country's Interior Ministry says that the action was scheduled to coincide with Deputy Prime Minister Valery Khoroshkovsky's trip to the United States. Last week thousands of Demonoid users feared the worst when their beloved site disappeared from the Internet.
Many thought that the site had been busted, but were eventually relieved to hear that it was ‘only’ a massive DDoS attack. But today the roller-coaster ride plummeted to new depths, with confirmation coming out of Ukraine that the DDoS was just the beginning – the site has been busted by the authorities. ColoCall is the largest datacenter in Ukraine and a place that has been Demonoid’s home in recent years. Trolley On Road in Russia. Pediatric surgeon dies trying to save two kids from Lake Michigan. August 06, 2012|By Rosemary R. Sobol | Tribune reporter Dr. Donald Liu died as he lived, saving children. The pediatric surgeon was with his wife for a weekend getaway when he spotted two children struggling in Lake Michigan off a small beach in Berrien County Michigan Sunday morning. "Dr. Liu had recently celebrated his 50th birthday and was spending the weekend with his wife and three small children in Chikaming Township, about 90 miles from Chicago.
Liu went out to help and went under the water before rescue crews arrived, according to Jeff Thornton, a dispatch supervisor for Berrien County Public Safety. Thornton said Liu's death was one of two apparent drownings in the county Sunday. The unidentified victim from Montgomery was located in 12 feet of water in a rip current 350 yards off Tiscornia Beach in St. He was last seen in waves that were 6-8 feet high. “It looks like he got caught in the rip,’’ said Thornton of the Montgomery man. "It’s incredibly sad," said Matthews. Eat It! / Healthy Baking Substitutes! Personality Junkie | INTP Careers, Jobs, & Majors. By Dr. A.J. Drenth As is often true for ENTP career-seekers, the road to a satisfying career can be a rough and rocky one for INTPs.
INTPs feel they must understand themselves and their place in the world before settling into a career. Because of their rugged individualism, INTPs may struggle to find satisfaction with traditional careers choices. Consequently, many INTPs discover that they want to work independently. INTP Holland Career Code/ Interests To orient our discussion of INTP career interests,we will now draw on six interest themes described by John Holland and the Strong Interest Inventory. Those with Realistic interests enjoy physical, hands-on work, often involving machines (e.g., repairing vehicles, tinkering with computers, construction). Like INTJ career-seekers the Investigative domain is typically the foremost Holland domain for INTPs, involving analytic, scientific, and academic interests.
Individuals in the Social interest domain enjoy working with people. Realistic: My BMW Remote app finally launching on Android. A Simple Bicycle Race - Video Feature. The end of formality. Formality is like a virus that infects the productive tissue of an organization. The symptoms are stiffness, stuffiness, and inflexibility – its origin never with those who do but with those that don’t. When did you last hear a programmer or designer clamor to wear a suit to work? The order always come from the executives (followed shortly by a request for those TPS reports!) Formality is more than a dress code, of course. It infects how people talk, write, and interact. It eats through all the edges and the individuality, leaving only the square behind.
And once you place being proper above getting great work done, it’s unlikely that you’ll attract the best and most creative minds to work for you. Formality is so ingrained in much of our working culture that even though people intuitively understand its harm, as in the colloquial “it’s just a formality, but we have to…”, it lives on. Thankfully, there seems to be a cure: Companies started and run by doers. How Facebook Could Save Its Shattered Share Price.
If Facebook’s share price continues to plummet, it’s going to have a lot tougher time signing and retaining the top talent who can answer its big questions. It needs more revenue, or at least clear ways of generating it to persuade investors. But payments aren’t growing anymore, and its current ads aren’t enough. It can’t wait to set the money-making wheels in motion. It needs decisive action, immediately. Why is this a crisis? People are rapidly shifting to using the site from mobile alone, or at least spending a lot more of their time on mobile than desktop where it shows more ads. Meanwhile, with Zynga stumbling and gamers moving to iOS or Android where Facebook can’t take a cut of virtual good or content sales, its payments business is plateauing. And more generally, businesses view Facebook as a source of demand generation through brand advertising that could eventually lift their sales. These factors are scaring away investors and sinking its share price.
More Sponsored Stories. Google May Soon Give Chromebook Users 100 GB Of Free Google Drive Storage. Google’s browser-centric Chromebooks have now found their way into your local big-box electronic store and they seem to be a hit with schools, but there is little evidence that mainstream users are warming up to Google’s ChromeOS devices. Nevertheless, the company is pressing on with this program and now it looks like Google has a nice perk for ChromeOS users up its sleeve that could make Chromebooks a bit more palatable for mainstream users. Google+ user Francois Beaufort (tip of the hat to Chromestory) recently noticed a few lines in Google’s source code for ChromeOS that seem to indicate that Google is about to give Chromebook owners 100 GB of free online storage on Google Drive. Currently, Google charges everybody $4.99/month for this amount of storage.
For Chromebook users, however, storage is obviously a more pressing issue than for others, given that Google only puts a minuscule amount of on-board storage on these cloud-centric devices. Kauffman Sketchbook - "Money Game" How to make great iced coffee with an AeroPress. Iced coffee is tricky to get right. I’ve made this recipe for my last few barbecues, and it always gets compliments, so I think it’s ready to share. The problem with iced coffee starts with the American expectation that iced drinks should be very large. If you want to make a 32-ounce coffee of any sort that doesn’t suck, and doesn’t make you explode from overcaffeination when you drink it, I can’t help you.
It’s simply too much liquid, especially as the correspondingly huge amount of ice melts and dilutes it over the half hour it should take you to drink that much. Throw that expectation out. How can we make great iced coffee if it can be smaller and more densely flavored? The same way we make great hot coffee: the AeroPress. The idea behind my AeroPress iced coffee is to first make a very strong coffee concentrate. To do this, I boil a lot of water and brew 40 grams of coffee per full AeroPress. 40 grams should look ridiculous in the AeroPress. But first: The Sugar Question Enjoy. Use any credit or debit card with Google Wallet. (cross-posted from the Google Commerce Blog) Since we released the first version of Google Wallet, the app that makes your phone your wallet, we’ve made it available on six phones from Sprint and Virgin Mobile, as well as the new Nexus 7 tablet.
We’ve also partnered with more than 25 national retailers, and thanks to MasterCard PayPass, you can pay with your phone at more than 200,000 retail locations across the U.S. Today we’re releasing a new, cloud-based version of the Google Wallet app that supports all credit and debit cards from Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. Now, you can use any card when you shop in-store or online with Google Wallet. With the new version, you can also remotely disable your mobile wallet app from your Google Wallet account on the web. A wallet with all your credit and debit cards To save a card to Google Wallet, just enter the number into the mobile app, online wallet, or Google Play when making purchases.
Y Combinator. Meet Smudge, DJ Richie Hawtin's Latest iOS App. Berlin-based developers Liine have released a new and free interactive music app for iOS, called Smudge, which you can test live at DJ Richie Hawtin‘s new night in Ibiza, Spain this summer, ENTER. While the app works anywhere, it is at its best when used to interact with the dedicated audiovisual installation that occupies an entire terrace at Ibiza’s famous club Space every Thursday, and which we got the opportunity to visit. Called ENTER.Interakt, the room consists of illuminated columns with sound effects that can be activated through motion sensors or via the app. The app itself relies on Bluetooth to let you create original sound and light sequences, in collaboration with other attendees and the master iPad that can be found in the DJ booth.
The room and its eerie sound effects may initially seem quite mysterious to partygoers, but posters on the wall let them know about the app and how to get it on their phones, leading a handful of them to download it on the spot. . ➤ Smudge. CLMapper Is A PadMapper Alternative that Can’t Be Blocked by Craigslist. Digg - What the Internet is talking about right now. Are Butterflies Two Different Animals in One? The Death And Resurrection Theory : Krulwich Wonders... Updated Aug. 2, 2012: We have added an update to this post, which you can find below the original.
Click here to read it. Here's a dangerous, crazy thought from an otherwise sober (and very eminent) biologist, Bernd Heinrich. He's thinking about moths and butterflies, and how they radically change shape as they grow, from little wormy, caterpillar critters to airborne beauties. Why, he wondered, do these flying animals begin their lives as wingless, crawling worms? Baby ducks have wings. Baby bats have wings. His answer — and I'm quoting him here — knocked me silly. "[T]he radical change that occurs," he says, "does indeed arguably involve death followed by reincarnation. " Robert Krulwich/NPR What? So he says it again: "[T]he adult forms of these insects are actually new organisms. " I'm sorry. "In effect, the animal is a chimera, an amalgam of two, where the first one lives and dies ... and then the other emerges.
" Really? The Death And Resurrection Cycle? Two In One It's a stunning idea. Louis C.K. Is Sorry for Everything. Over-the-top content. An online video distributor (OVD) is defined as "any entity that offers video content by means of the Internet or other Internet Protocol (IP)-based transmission path provided by a person or entity other than the OVD. "[1] Over-the-top messaging refers to a similar idea, where a third party provides instant messaging services as an alternative to text messaging services provided by a mobile network operator.[2] DTAG announces New Multi-Device OTT Video Acceleration Platform LiveStream Perform With Octoshape [3] WWE has launched its new OTT network, dubbed the WWE Network, as of February 24, 2014.[4] ANTIK Telecom launched its new OTT network under brand SmartTVBox, using their own Juice Media Server HLS streaming platform, on August 1, 2012[5] PBS is testing the waters for streaming their content OTT to consumers via a Roku channel.[6] Australia's Foxtel pay-TV provider launched their Foxtel Play[7] service on August 1, 2013.[8] See also[edit] References[edit]
Task Manager Todoist Receives a Major HTML5 Update. Todoist is one of the oldest web-based task managers still available today. Yet, they unveiled a major update that takes advantage of some bleeding edge HTML5 features. In addition to demonstrating the latest technology improvements that can be implemented in a web app, it is still today a relevant task manager for individuals.
The two main improvements of the new version are offline access with automatic synchronization — as previously seen in other web apps such as Gmail, Google Calendar or Google Docs – and considerably speedier performance. “My guess is that HTML5 is a new paradigm shift that will change how users perceive and use web applications,” founder and lead developer Amir Salihefendic said. In other words, he believes that HTML5′s web storage and offline support are as important as Ajax communication and HTTP server push, the technology that powers Facebook Chat and Gmail chat. But he is less optimistic when it comes to HTML5 adoption due to the necessary code rewrite. Google Chrome's Settings Icon is Changing - Long Live The Wrench! The Wrench icon was there from the very first version of Google Chrome. Google is replacing it with a Hotdogs icon. We called it the settings icon and sometimes the wrench icon. The icon itself added a uniqueness to Chrome.
When all other browsers had different menu lists for different settings, Chrome made remained a minimalist. Chrome Settings Icon Old The latest Chromium builds on OSX has replaced the settings icon with the new hotdog! We will soon this change coming to Window builds and pretty soon on Chrome stable versions. Chrome New Settings Icon Hotdog Making such huge changes are not new to Chrome users and the Chrome team. For many, such a huge change was really surprising. How will users react to this change then? This change is not as huge as the logo change, which changed the whole identity of Chrome. Why this change, all of a sudden? Can you think of any other reason? 10 New Features Coming To Your Chromebook.
Chrome OS gets new features every now and then. May be this is why Google loves to call them The Always New Computer. So what’s coming to your Chromebooks this season? Read on to find out! 1. Muting audio and dimming brightness directly from the Ash Tray Soon, you will be able to mute audio and control the screen brightness from the Ash Try. Source 2. Ever thought about that? Source 3. Here it is! 4. A little bit of fun stuff. 5. Works similar to changing default application on Windows. Coming soon to your Chromebooks! 6. This is in the planning stage for now. 7. 8. 9. 10. Which one is your favorite? Thanks François Beaufort and Pedram Jabbari for inputs!! Related Posts. Video chat face-to-face-to-face with Hangouts in Gmail. Dev Channel Update. TH Productions. 1988 Paul Hunt gymnastics comedy beam routine. 1988 Paul Hunt gymnastics comedy floor exercise. Stellar engine. Top Gear Jeremy Drives a Reliant Robin - full.
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Breakfast Guy doesn't give a shit about the Olympics. Bat pod. 4 year old does a hidden Camera Prank on her Cranky dad 2011. الباب:لحظة (طيران) قناص البريد 19\7 When did the three meal per day routine originate? Do all cultures do this? : AskHistorians. An enlightening theory about generational cycles. "Four generations and four archetypes. The generations are shaped both by each other and by the turnings; they are affected by the amount of nurturing they receive growing up and by the challenges they fac.