Author: jedreynolds
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Bike trails in DC to natl bike trail system #biketowork
Great Interview! Recommendations for creating more bicycling and walking transit alternatives…walking and biking paths, a national biking trail system! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126263488&ps=rs
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Biking When Pregnant? #biketowork
Wow, conventional wisdom certainly doesn’t agree with biking to work. I love too see this notion challenged. However, I’d guess that recumbents would be so much more comfortable when pregnant, no? http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2010/may/21/pregnant-cyclists
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Happy Bike to Work Day!
I wonder if Mayor Pike is going to be at the downtown BTWD celebration station? I hope everyone’s got air in their tires!
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How were Cro-Magnon and Neanderthals different?
Very interesting interview with Brian Fagan talking about early humans, what evidence we’ve collected, their mitochondial timeline, and their practical lives. http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4509.html
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Cross another 1000 off #biketowork
As I was biking home, gazing at a nearly complete triple rainbow left in the wake of a passing thunder cloud that was hailing on us minutes before, my odometer crossed 1000 miles. This is the odometer I got in January and put on the gray mountain bike. (The blue mountain bike has about 1500…
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Glucose powered wetware?
Many episodes of Futures in Biotech have discussed the energy produced by cells. This slashdot story not only makes me think that we’re another step closer to personal cybernation but it might also have a sci-fi like role in medical monitoring equipment? In a way #diabetic #coppertop ? All do respect of course. It would…
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Bike Day Trike Race! #bham
Bring your wee trike and a wig! http://www.everybodybike.com/eventDetail.aspx?id=19
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Protected: Fedora 13: Politely Biting Your Lip?
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Database Joins, Reddit, NoSQL
There’s been a lot of online discussion about NoSQL this year. Thomas Gideon produced a podcast episode about using NoSQL vs joins. This morning I was pointed to this Highscalability post about Reddit. Quoting: There are no joins in the database and you must manually enforce consistency. No joins means it’s really easy to distribute…
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