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Tuesday 12 April, 2011
#[linkfarm] The Efficient Past and Wasteful Present of the Brooklyn Bridge
Swap busses for cars and, blow me, fewer people use your major bits of infrastructure.
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Monday 11 April, 2011
#[linkfarm] Bin police are given their marching orders - Only the most severe cases of fly-tipping will be subject to penalties.
From now on, I will no longer bother to put my bins on a Monday evening for the Tuesday morning collection. Instead I will just pile them up at the end of my street (because I don't want a pile of rubbish outside my own house, do I?) whenever I damn well please. I don't even care who sees me, because it doesn't matter. From now on "only the most severe cases of fly-tipping" is even remotely naughty. On special occasions, I might even take my rubbish to the park and pile it up there. Just because I can.
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Tuesday 05 April, 2011
#[linkfarm] Derby council candidate lied in phone-in about honesty
You couldn't make it up!
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#[linkfarm] Business models - ... subsidy is an indication that the business model has failed and the business should go with it ... there is no place for services that don’t make money ...
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#[linkfarm] Car parking: I'll just leave this speedboat here - I've got a really big wooden crate -- it's a little over 4 metres long and just under 2 metres wide -- and it won't fit in my house. ... So now, because it won't fit in my house, I'm just going to leave it in the street. It'll block half of the road, but so what? I need somewhere to keep my crate and that's where it's going.
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Monday 04 April, 2011
#[linkfarm] Bicycles: The chains that set women free - Hoopdriver, the “counterjumper” hero of H G Wells’s 1896 comic novel The Wheels of Chance, is out for a ride on his day off when he meets a young lady cycling along “wearing a patent costume with button-up skirts, and mounted on a diamond-frame safety with Dunlops, and a loofah-covered saddle”. He is so awestruck by her that he falls off his Ordinary.
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#[linkfarm] Pratt Parsers - Expression Parsing Made Easy
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Friday 01 April, 2011
#[linkfarm] I think I no how to make people or animals alive - In June of 1973 ... 9-year-old Anthony Hollander wrote the following letter to the presenters of Blue Peter ... and asked for assistance in his quest to "make people or animals alive." ... n 2008, the very same Anthony Hollander, now a professor of rheumatology and tissue engineering at the University of Bristol, played a key role in a record-breaking feat of surgery: the successful implantation of an artificially-grown windpipe into a 30-year-old Colombian woman named Claudia Castillo.
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#[linkfarm] Culled quango chief summoned to impossible meeting - What's in the water at the Department for Transport? The day before yesterday, Mike Penning, the minister for roads, gave a speech in parliament in which he said, wrongly, that roads are funded by motorists. Today, BikeBiz.com can reveal that Philip Hammond, the Secretary of State for Transport, doesn't appear to know he killed off Cycling England.
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#[linkfarm] Pioneering Norwich bike is a state-of-the-art lifesaver - “In Norwich, like most street layouts in urban areas, we can far outpace a motorised vehicle – our accessibility is much improved. The government want category A calls, life threatening calls like cardiac arrests, to be answered within eight minutes and the bike meets about 97pc of that.”
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