January 2010
25 posts
Storm surge on Sausalito bike path
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Charlotte Gainsbourg (5)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (4)
Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck (4)
Roky Erickson (3)
Johnny Cash (3)
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Bluebird powder day at Vail
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Thoughts after getting my new phone number
I love this idea. I have 4 phone numbers (GV, old business, new business, mobile) + fax + Skype. I wish they could all just get along.
Jay
bijan:
I’ve been playing around with Google Voice for some time now.
It’s not perfect by any means and it certainly isn’t perfect on my iPhone (which I had to jailbreak to support GV Mobile)
But it’s good enough for my needs and as a result I changed my...
On top of the world
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Email or call to cast your vote for a West Span...
West Span Bicycle-Pedestrian-Maintenance Pathway would be cantilevered off both sides of the upper deck of the West Span, and would complete the world-class bikeway all the way across the Bay from Oakland to San Francisco. Features of the Pathway include benefits to motorists such as emergency access, refuge for stalled motorists, and reduced lane closures for...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Sir Georg Solti & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (21)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Samuel Magad & Sir Georg Solti (18)
Norman, Freni, Minton, Wixell, Ganzarolli, Grant,…
Soggy mileage
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Adobe Systems & wind power in downtown wind...
Adobe’s headquarters, for example, consists of three office towers whose roofs are too small for a sizable solar system. But the towers funnel wind into a courtyard where Adobe employees play basketball and bocce. Even on days when the air seems still elsewhere in downtown San Jose, the courtyard has a breeze. “We knew we’d created a wind tunnel here,” Knox said on a...
A Few Internet Users in China Find Ways Around...
AnchorFree, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has built a profitable business by providing free, advertising-supported software called Hotspot Shield that tunnels about 7.5 million people around the world into the Internet by encrypting Internet users’ data and cloaking their identities. But last summer, the Chinese government blocked AnchorFree’s Web site so that Chinese citizens could no...
Have an Answer to the Monty Hall Problem?
I just heard about this, which is apparently a well know statistics word problem.
Monty Hall hosted the game show Let’s Make a Deal. On it, he would show contestants three doors and tell them that behind one door was a new car. Behind the other two were goats. If the contestant picked the car, s/he won it.
The contestant would pick, but before opening the door, Monty would open one of...
Really great - Chinese Build A Shrine Outside...
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Advanced Imaging Reveals a Computer 1,500 Years...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Muti, Riccardo; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano (35)
Narciso Yepes (34)
Butthole Surfers (8)
Big Black (6)
The Jesus Lizard (6)
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Breaking boards at karate bday party
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On Reading vs. Spelling
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. If you can raed tihs, psot it to yuor wlal. Olny 55% of plepoe can. Posted via email from...
Winterlodge skating
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My new favorite TED talk: Chopin, Irish street...
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How the other 0.00001% lives: The Dark Side of...
Weber considers himself affluent at best, given the different set of standards that applies in his line of work. He considers someone to be rich “if they can have one of the world’s most renowned symphony orchestras perform in their garden, and the musicians significantly outnumber the members of the audience. via spiegel.de Posted via web from park3’s...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →
The White Stripes (39)
Sutherland, Domingo, Gabriel Bacquier, Huguette Tourangeau, Paul PlishkaOffenbach (36)
Glenn Gould (31)
Nirvana (28)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (26)
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