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by brendannee 12y ago
I did a little holiday baking myself this year - fixing my old Samsung 30" display in a similar way: http://blog.bn.ee/2014/12/22/sometimes-you-just-need-to-bake...
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Cryptography for dummies(economist.com)
2 points by brendannee 12y ago|0 comments
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The cost of traffic jams(economist.com)
8 points by brendannee 12y ago|0 comments
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Half of Google's MV employees don't drive alone, 21% live in San Francisco(archive.mountainview.gov)
1 points by brendannee 12y ago|0 comments
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Chinese phonemakers are preparing to take on the world(economist.com)
1 points by brendannee 12y ago|0 comments
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Hotel Wi-Fi: Knock your block off(economist.com)
1 points by brendannee 12y ago|0 comments
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by brendannee 12y ago
It would be interesting to review the full list of creative translations: “Crash” became hookii (a cow falling over but not dying) “timeout” became a honaama (your fish has got away) “Aspect ratio” became jeendondiral, a rebuke from elders
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Translating technological terms throws up some peculiar challenges(economist.com)
41 points by brendannee 12y ago|19 comments
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Why video games are so expensive to develop(economist.com)
13 points by brendannee 12y ago|4 comments
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Mapping 23 Casualties of SF's Car vs. Condo Deathmatch(sf.curbed.com)
1 points by brendannee 12y ago|0 comments
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by brendannee 12y ago
NACTO released the Urban Street Design Guide with more pedestrian, transit and bike friendly designs last year. Here is their chapter on traffic signals: http://nacto.org/usdg/intersection-design-elements/traffic
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Lyft, Uber and Sidecar launch real carpooling apps to discourage car ownership(techsportation.com)
3 points by brendannee 12y ago|0 comments
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The View From Your Window Is Worth Cash to This Company(citylab.com)
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by brendannee 12y ago
There is a bizarre animated biography on IKB made by the BBC in 1975: http://transportationist.org/2012/09/17/great_isambard_kingd... "It is mostly about Brunel, but it is also telling of the state of th
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by brendannee 13y ago
vpnuk.info has worked well for me. The BBC's coverage is pretty good, and you can watch full events for every sport. Its definitely worth the one-month cost to get access.
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The Cost of Speeding: Save a Little Time, Spend a Lot of Money(blog.automatic.com)
2 points by brendannee 13y ago|0 comments
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by brendannee 13y ago
Glad to see unicode love hotel works too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🏩
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Chrome Rules the Web(economist.com)
2 points by brendannee 13y ago|0 comments
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by brendannee 13y ago
http://unicodelovehotel.com/
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by brendannee 13y ago
It would be cool to integrate route choice (suggest a variety of routes from short/hillier to longer/flatter) using the API at http://bikesy.com
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Experiments in GitHub Based Procurement(civic.io)
1 points by brendannee 14y ago|0 comments
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List of prohibited or banned personalized license plates(governmentattic.org)
1 points by brendannee 14y ago|0 comments
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by brendannee 14y ago
Just renamed my wireless networks with a cityscape and bar theme: https://img.skitch.com/20120921-8r3d1uchbsphatfjf9iuc9wx2c.p...
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by brendannee 14y ago
Unicodelovehotel.com was on hacker news a while back. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3837359 Check out the source to see all the fallbacks I implemented to make at least something show up in most browsers/platforms.
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by brendannee 14y ago
My http://unicodelovehotel.com site has really been coming in handy lately.
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by brendannee 14y ago
You can remap capslock to <lovehotel> for easy access, if you end up typing it a lot.
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by brendannee 14y ago
Looks like you can get <unicode>.tk domain names, anyone want 🏩.tk? https://img.skitch.com/20120413-b67rwn29c4aydc73jyt3jfwsnk.j...
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by brendannee 14y ago
That was my inspiration for this site.
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by brendannee 14y ago
Duck duck go beats google in this case: https://img.skitch.com/20120413-gs9cnmdrcnfgcx3idct62xp35y.j...
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by brendannee 14y ago
Thanks - I didn't test Opera, I updated it to show only the color (actual) character in opera and not show the fallback image

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