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Udderings is compiled by David Hall, a PhD student in BME at Boston University

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ceallaigh:

laurishly:

holymoly: Ode to incredibly smart city transportation.
The public bicycle system in Montreal isn’t anything new to the world… except for us Americans. It’s apparently been around for over fifty years but only has recently been seen in the States as of 2006.
It basically works like this: you swipe your card and pay a $5 fee (Montreal’s price), take a bike, ride it around town, and drop it off at any of the hundreds of other stations around the city.
The result? Everyone is cycling. Everyone. For only $5/24 hours, $28/1 month and $78/one year, it just makes sense.

The Miami Beach Bike Sharing Program is supposed to launch in July.

Boston was supposed to launch in May, no bikes seen so far…

ceallaigh:

laurishly:

holymoly: Ode to incredibly smart city transportation.

The public bicycle system in Montreal isn’t anything new to the world… except for us Americans. It’s apparently been around for over fifty years but only has recently been seen in the States as of 2006.

It basically works like this: you swipe your card and pay a $5 fee (Montreal’s price), take a bike, ride it around town, and drop it off at any of the hundreds of other stations around the city.

The result? Everyone is cycling. Everyone. For only $5/24 hours, $28/1 month and $78/one year, it just makes sense.

The Miami Beach Bike Sharing Program is supposed to launch in July.

Boston was supposed to launch in May, no bikes seen so far…

As soon as we became aware of this problem, we grounded our Street View cars and segregated the data on our network, which we then disconnected to make it inaccessible. We want to delete this data as soon as possible, and are currently reaching out to regulators in the relevant countries about how to quickly dispose of it.

Official Google Blog: WiFi data collection: An update

This just made me laugh, I’m certain Google is just checking if there’s any legal reason preventing them from deleting this data, but the paragraph makes it sound like they have some hazardous materials that can’t be sent to the dump, so they need regulators to provide advice on how to get rid of it.

If you now put napping as an interest on facebook, the page you are linked to is probably not what you meant at all:

Primarily, nap is the raised (fuzzy) surface on certain kinds of cloth, such as velvet. Nap can refer additionally to other surfaces that look like the surface of a napped cloth, such as the surface of a felt or beaver hat.
Starting around the 14th century, the word referred originally to the roughness of woven cloth before it was sheared. When cloth, especially woollen cloth, is woven, the surface of the cloth is not smooth, and this roughness is the nap. Generally the cloth is then ‘sheared’ to create an even surface, and the nap is thus removed.

If you now put napping as an interest on facebook, the page you are linked to is probably not what you meant at all:

Primarily, nap is the raised (fuzzy) surface on certain kinds of cloth, such as velvet. Nap can refer additionally to other surfaces that look like the surface of a napped cloth, such as the surface of a felt or beaver hat.

Starting around the 14th century, the word referred originally to the roughness of woven cloth before it was sheared. When cloth, especially woollen cloth, is woven, the surface of the cloth is not smooth, and this roughness is the nap. Generally the cloth is then ‘sheared’ to create an even surface, and the nap is thus removed.

The hero of the Times Square bomb attempt was an immigrant. A Muslim. Senegalese newcomer Aliou Niasse was the first to notice the smoldering car and draw attention to it. He had no time left on his cell phone and realized his English probably wasn’t up to the task, so he got a passerby to call 911. In Arizona the cops would have hauled him off to jail while the car exploded.

Some Assembly Required (via AZspot) (via marco)

I feel the need to point out he’s one of three possible heroes.  I’ve yet to see any story that was definitively able to say whether he, Duane Jackson, or Lance Orton should get credit, not that it should matter.

The Cigarette Butt Test

Sometime recently, John Gruber linked to an article on the staff that keeps Disney Parks clean.  This reminded me of certain other places, like the DC Metro System, which repaints and cleans stations with much more regularity than other systems, and it really shows.  Boston is horrid in comparison.

But my favorite thing has to do with my apartment building.  If you walk up and down my block, you’ll see a lot of people who smoke.  In front of most buildings, there is literally a layer of cigarette on their grass.  But not in front of the three buildings owned by my landlord.  Our front lawns are pristine.  It isn’t because noone in our buildings smoke or throw butts on the ground, but because they’re always picked up by the next day.  This sort of ethic seems to carry over into the maintenance inside.  Any requests I’ve had have been quickly filled.  They’ve been much better than the other places I have lived.

Thus, my “Cigarette Butt Test” for apartment buildings.  If you see a lot of cigarette butts in the front lawn, the landlord doesn’t care about appearances and he probably won’t care about problems in your apartment either.  If there’s very few or none, you’ve got a good landlord.

merlin:

How about a vaccination for how my dashboard increasingly feels like LiveJournal with an Associate’s Degree and five espressos?
People should probably argue about that a lot while I’m out of town.

This was the only post on my dashboard right now that felt like livejournal.  Thanks a lot Merlin.  Now I’ll go back to my actual dashboard which most consists of explodingdog.

merlin:

How about a vaccination for how my dashboard increasingly feels like LiveJournal with an Associate’s Degree and five espressos?

People should probably argue about that a lot while I’m out of town.

This was the only post on my dashboard right now that felt like livejournal.  Thanks a lot Merlin.  Now I’ll go back to my actual dashboard which most consists of explodingdog.