Sunday, August 22, 2010

sig, 2.0

once upon a time, a signature file was thought to be limited to 4 lines - "bandwidth conservation society". recently, i ran across a signature file that contained a gazillion links to the author ... not including the email link. a friend's tweet about not wanting to be considered "1 dimenional" reminded me - we're all hyper dimensional beings in the 2.0 world !

aim
bebo
blog
cabot
club penguin
cyworld
del.icio.us
dopplr
eve
facebook
flickr
gax
gia
habbo (uk)
ilike
jaiku
last.fm
linked-in
m (uk)
m (us, only when i’m there)
mapelstory
moshi monster
myspace
openid
plaxo:
pownce
profilactic
rupture
secondlife
skype
spock
there.com
tumblr.
twitter
upcoming
wacoopa
www
wow (us)
xbox live

Friday, August 20, 2010

Urban Bikes



(Image from http://www.streetsblog.org/)

Ran in to a graduate student from Cal the other day and got to talking about bicycles and smart cities ... which reminded me of the bicycle videos from Utrecht (Netherlands).


Bicycle Rush Hour Utrecht (Netherlands) I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-AbPav5E5M

Bicycle Rush Hour Utrecht (Netherlands) II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlQYP4WN-5w

Bicycle Rush Hour Snow Ultrect (Netherlands)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMv3OB6XHvQ

How did all of this come about? YouTube gave a short glimpse into the thinking and planning that went into this change.

MPs and Lords from the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group visited the Netherlands in April 2009 with officials from British cycling organisations.
http://vimeo.com/4381805


And a goodie ...

How to pack a bike into a Scicon box
http://vimeo.com/1483972