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Welcome to NYCstreets:

You may have noticed the new tab at the top of Streetsblog and StreetFilms with a link to NYCstreets. If you haven’t checked it out yet, it’s worth a look. NYCstreets is a place where people interested in improving New York City’s streets and public spaces can find online tools, resources and, most importantly — other people — to help get organized and make change happen.

[Cool.]
Source: StreetsBlog

Reviews – HUDZ:The Shimano and Campagnolo compatible replacement brake hoods have since been featured and reviewed by the likes of Cyclingnews and PezCycling News.

While these reviews showed how HUDZ can make your current steed look uniquely and distinctly your own, or make a brand new bike that much sexier, neither spoke to the philanthropy behind it. HUDZ are truly the cycling product that gives back.

A portion of the sale, for specific colors, is tied to a charity.[I know someone who has to have these in pink. Shouldn't be too long.]
Source: Triple Crankset

Fluid – Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard: f so, Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) provide a great solution for your webapp woes. Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite webapps as a separate desktop application. Fluid gives any webapp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, and logical separation from your other web browsing activity. [Trying it now... early days, but it seems to work as advertised. Nice.]

Ruby Importer for Spotlight: I’m feeling really stupid for not discovering this sooner—a Spotlight importer for Ruby source files. Now I can search inside source for methods, classes, and the contents of comments. My only concern so far is the volume of stuff being indexed, but time will tell…
[Installed...]
Source: PragDave