Seattle’s Bike Master Plan needs work
Via Seattle Transit Blog, there’s an absolutely spot-on critique of Seattle’s Bike Master Plan by Bob Hall that everyone should read. Call me nit-picky, but I was hoping that a…
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Cleaning up scanned slides
I’ve been spending a lot of time fixing up scanned slides lately, and thought I should jot down the workflow that I use so that I can refer back to…
12 fact about guns and mass shootings
From Ezra Klein, here’s a great collection of factoids about guns and shootings in the United States. Follow the link on the correction to guns in Switzerland and Israel—it’s a…
Thoughts on gun control
Freedom’s always have a tradeoff. American’s have decided that it’s important enough to have extremely liberal guns laws, that we as a society are willing to tolerate a fairly high…
Reduce the deficit by raising the gas tax
The numbers that get are getting thrown around for ‘fixing’ the Federal deficit are around 1 trillion dollars over ten years. A pretty simple solution would be to raise the…
Thanks to Apple, Google Maps now rocks
For all the crap that people gave Apple for dropping Google maps, in the end, it appears as if it’s a major win for users. Instead of one mediocre maps…
Deficit increasing austerity bomb
The reading comprehension of American’s is apparently quite horrible. Via Paul Krugman, by a margin of almost four to one, people think that going over the fiscal cliff will cause…
Seattle Area Employment and Link Ridership
It’s not exactly user friendly, but once you know how it’s pretty easy to get at local employment statistics. I was looking at Link ridership reports and trying to explain why…
Apple Fail #4: Update descriptions
The new iTunes 11 download found in Software Update reads, Introducing the new iTunes. With a dramatically simplified player, a completely redesigned Store, and iCould features you’ll love—this is the…
Apple Fail #3: Address Book
The usability of Apple’s Contacts application, went from okay, to horrible over the last few OS updates. It’s gotta be one of the simplest application to write (so maybe Apple…