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Thursday, September 14, 2006

Are these pages on Dale Carnegie the secret to Steven Morgan Friedman’s sucess?

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Diebold prepares to deliver another election to the Republicans

Wednesday, September 6, 2006

Blackboxvoting.com does it again, hacking a Diebold voting machine in 4 minutes. I hate to say I told you so, but voting isn’t going to help. Engadget suggests voting via paper absentee ballot (ah, but who counts those?) Nevertheless, it’s worth a try. If you need to vote by absentee ballot in New York, which […]

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Biking in New York

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Most people probably don’t have any interest in biking the streets of New York given the aggresive nature of the drivers there. However, if you insist, you might find Bicycling Street Smarts a useful guide to saving your ass.

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Brooklyn Bridge Sounds

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

WFMU’s Beware of the Blog has a fantastic post today on the sounds made by bridges. Included is an mp3 of the Brooklyn Bridge recorded in 1982. Guaranteed to bring back memories for some people – the bridge no longer sounds the way it does in the recording due to the road being replaced.

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Taxi Drivers and Cell Phones

Thursday, June 15, 2006

New York Taxi Drivers are officially not allowed to use cell phones when driving. Since the use of hands-free cell phones is so rampant, I had no idea that there was an explicit regulation against it. There are some other interesting rules & regulations detailed at the TLC site as well.

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Blaine Underwater

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

Check out David Blaine underwater (cool pictures.)

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