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Archive for December 12th, 2007

Shoup Dogg, Parking Policy Cult Hero, Fills Fordham Auditorium

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Shoup Dogg, Parking Policy Cult Hero, Fills Fordham Auditorium: Shoup quoted Seinfeld’s George Costanza to sum up the essential New Yorker attitude when it comes to curbside parking: “It’s like going to a prostitute. Why should I pay when, if I apply myself, maybe I could get it for free?” [I think the quote says it all... (however the article is a bit about Shoup who believes that the congestion problem can be improved by charging a more accurate cost for street parking in NYC.]
Source: StreetsBlog

Written by Daniel

December 12, 2007 at 1:27 pm

Posted in advocacy, environment, news

Utility Belt (irb stuff)

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Utility Belt: Utility Belt is a grab-bag of tricks, tools, techniques, trifles, and toys for IRB, including convenience methods, language patches, and useful extensions. It also includes a couple command-line widgets.
[My fave? Grammatically-correct is_an? method - no more “is_a? Array” statements]
Source: raganwald

Written by Daniel

December 12, 2007 at 1:22 pm

Posted in advocacy, code, tech

Foundations of Interaction Design – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

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Foundations of Interaction Design – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design: In the end, interaction design is the choreography and orchestration of these form-based design disciplines to create that holistic narrative between human(s) and the products and systems around us. [That's quite a sentence...]

Written by Daniel

December 12, 2007 at 12:01 pm

Posted in design