every car entering the CBD causes an average of 3.23 person-hours of delays. Multiply that by $39.53—a weighted average of vehicles’ time value within and outside the CBD—and it turns out that the average weekday vehicle journey costs other New Yorkers $128 in lost time.
Month: June 2010
Berlin is ugly
Berlin is evidence that most tourists don’t actually care so much about history, culture, and museums. Mostly tourists like large, visually spectacular sites, or family activities, combined with the feeling that they are taking in culture or seeing something important.
Mexican gulf bleed-out?
a massive collapse of the Gulf floor itself is in the making,” “fracturing and a complete bleed-out are already underway”. 2B barrels of oil could leak into the Gulf before the reservoir has fully depleted itself.
Zuckerberg Blasphemy
Mark Zuckerberg is being investigated by Pakistani police under a section of the penal code that makes blasphemy against Muhammad punishable by death. Petitioner Muhammad Azhar Sidiqque is waiting for the police to contact Interpol about making arrangements for the arrest of Facebook’s owners and “Andy”. Pakistan’s United Nations representative has asked to escalate the issue in the UN General Assembly.
isn’t religion cute? such angst! such inadequacy! such insecurity!
LuminAR
using a standard bulb interface to project onto a desk, AR style.
Dieu du ciel
a new favorite. their beers are truly excellent, and their brew pub lovely.
CCNx
Project CCNx is an open source project exploring the next step in networking, based on 1 fundamental architectural change: replacing named hosts with named content as the primary abstraction.
keithp thinks this might be the successor to X
Stormtroopers 365
these are extremely awesome. i could not stop laughing.
Ötzi
The isotopic composition of strontium, oxygen and lead in Ötzi’s teeth show that his likely birthplace was near the modern town of Brixen, Italy – but that his adult life was spent in the neighboring Vinschgau or Schnals valleys.
The Checklist
he long struggle to turn medicine from art to science: checklists increase ICU survival rates by 50%. algorithms save lives.
The checklists provided 2 main benefits, Pronovost observed. First, they helped with memory recall, especially with mundane matters that are easily overlooked in patients undergoing more drastic events. (When you’re worrying about what treatment to give a woman who won’t stop seizing, it’s hard to remember to make sure that the head of her bed is in the right position.) A second effect was to make explicit the minimum, expected steps in complex processes. Pronovost was surprised to discover how often even experienced personnel failed to grasp the importance of certain precautions. In a survey of I.C.U. staff taken before introducing the ventilator checklists, he found that 50% hadn’t realized that there was evidence strongly supporting giving ventilated patients antacid medication. Checklists established a higher standard of baseline performance.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 