Wed 24 Sep 2008
Newcomers, and even more seasoned riders, can benefit from this short guide on how to survive in New York City on a bike. The apt title (Welcome to the Jungle) says it all.
Hey, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
Mon 8 Sep 2008
Soma created a new interactive singles map. Its data visualization is so slick, Gawker has already noticed.
Sat 6 Sep 2008
A typo in a Swedish food magazine’s recipe sent several people to the hospital. The cake recipe was supposed to call for a couple pinches of nutmeg. Instead, cooks were instructed to use 20 whole nutmeg nuts.
In addition to causing headaches and dizziness, this cake must have tasted really, really bad.
Be careful out there people…
Sun 10 Aug 2008
I’m pretty sure this sort of behavior will garner a ticket in most places. Sure, its dangerous, but it looks so cool.
Fri 1 Aug 2008
If you’re having trouble getting a visa to enter China, you can get your food fix in Queens. The Times gets all detailed about Finding Beijing in Flushing. There’s even a Flushing Chinese food map so you won’t get lost while in a food induced coma.
Yum!
Sat 24 May 2008
The NYTimes OPEN blog talks about their TimesMachine implementation, and how they used EC2 to convert the archive information into something usable on the web. TimesMachine, by the way, is an archive of Times pages going all the way back to issue number one (18 September 1851).
Sun 18 May 2008
Prompted by a wouldn’t it be cool if… conversation, here are a few lists of BYOB places around town:
- BYOBs.com Manhattan BYOB and Brooklyn BYOB
- Metromix BYOB List
- Citysearch BYOB List and Citysearch Best New York BYOB 2008
- New York Magazine’s B.Y.O.B. List This list was last updated January 2006, so it might be out of date.
Tue 29 Apr 2008
May is Bike Month NYC. To get things started, Hal Ruzal and Kerri Martin take a look at how well New Yorkers lock up their rides.
There are several good locking tips in this video. One, however, isn’t that great. They show one bike that uses hose clamps to secure the quick release skewers. The bike in the video had both wheels locked up, so they were secure. Learn from my stupidity, don’t rely on hose clamps alone to keep your wheels out of the hands of bike thieves.
via Streetsblog
Sun 27 Apr 2008
Washington D.C. will be the first U.S. city to have a widespread bike sharing program. Next month, SmartBike DC, will make 120 bikes available around the city. They hope have 1,000 shared bicycles on D.C. streets in the future.
Wed 9 Apr 2008
The New York Public Library now has a presence on iTunes U. This makes a lot of the library’s digital content a little easier to get at.
