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June 30, 2017
June 28, 2017
BMW vs Honda: Front, humpback battle 2 of 4
June 26, 2017
BMW vs Honda: humpback battle 1 of 4
BMW 640i xdrive GrandTurismo vs Honda Civic hatachback
Ghosts of the Saab wagonback return.
BMW vs Honda: Front, humpback battle 2 of 4
BMW vs Honda: Side, humpback battle 3 of 4
BMW vs Honda: Rear, humpback battle 4 of 4
June 24, 2017
How did the culture at your last company empower or disempower you?
Four questions, ht Inc.
- How did the culture at your last company empower or disempower you ?
- What were the characteristics of the best boss you've ever had ?
- Describe how you handled a conflict with one of your co-workers ?
- What kind of feedback do you expect to receive in this role and how often do you expect to receive it?
June 23, 2017
Fake News includes bad reporting, slanted journalism and outright propaganda includes bad reporting, slanted journalism and outright propaganda
"Fake news was a term specifically about people who purposely fabricated stories for clicks and revenue," said David Mikkelson, the founder of Snopes, the myth-busting website. "Now it includes bad reporting, slanted journalism and outright propaganda. And I think we're doing a disservice to lump all those things together."
The right's labeling of "fake news" evokes one of the most successful efforts by conservatives to reorient how Americans think about news media objectivity: the move by Fox News to brand its conservative-slanted coverage as "fair and balanced." Traditionally, mainstream media outlets had thought of their own approach in those terms, viewing their coverage as strictly down the middle. Republicans often found that laughable.
McMansions no more (Leigh County, PA)
Bethlehem Township developer Abraham Atiyeh announced two weeks ago that he's building a downtown Bethlehem development of town homes starting at $129,000, and national builder Pulte Homes has halted its large-home building in the area and last winter began marketing a new home, called "The Lehigh", with 1,050 square feet and starting price of $139,000.
McMansions No More ** Fewer behemoth homes may be built in the Lehigh Valley as turmoil in the housing market opens the door for smaller, more affordable living
Morning Call - Allentown, Pa.
Author: Matt Assad
Date: May 25, 2008
Start Page: A.1
Section: National
Text Word Count: 2299
[Via McAll]
More: McMansions.
June 22, 2017
Piketty's book, and to the growing salience of inequality
It's a testament to the power of Piketty's book, and to the growing salience of inequality as a political issue, that people like Jason Furman are giving Piketty's book respectful attention. The issue has gained enough traction that political elites now feel that they have to pay it lip service.
Still, their message is clear: minor reforms might be grudgingly allowed, but policies that threaten the wealth and power of the elite class are strictly out of bounds.
June 20, 2017
Ride alone ?
More Blacks and Hispanics thought bicyclists were mostly women, children, and seniors and more Blacks and Hispanics thought they would bike more if they could bike with family and friends. To comfortably bicycle with someone, the bicyclist would prefer to ride beside and not in front or behind their companion. Therefore, cycle tracks in lower income ethnic-minority neighborhoods should be wide to enable side-by-side riding with family and friends. (C.R.O.W, 2006 ; Rietveld and Daniel, 2004).
June 19, 2017
North Shore Racks bike racks
North Shore Racks customer testimonials and Series 202 racks.
June 18, 2017
ZIP code scribble maps
"Scribble Map" by connecting each dot representing each U.S. ZIP code in ascending order.
scribble map of zip codes by Robert Kosara.
June 14, 2017
Zuckerberg for President, 2020
The baffler on Citizen Zuckerberg.
June 13, 2017
Citibike comes to Astoria with Long Island City expansion
June 11, 2017
thenextweb's 12 timeless UI Patterns
thenextweb's 12 timeless UI Patterns for the WWW.
June 10, 2017
Walt Mossberg created a much different approach to product reviews
As a product designer, it was frustrating to see a product reviewed and rated based on the number of features it had, even when many of those features would never be used. And I saw how the magazines had influenced the design of new products. Design engineers and marketing people would tend to pile on feature after feature without much thought to usability. That made products take longer to design, harder to use and less reliable.
In 1991, Walt Mossberg created a much different approach to product reviews that not only made it easier to assess a new product but also changed how products would be designed.
He would look at products not based on the number of features but on their practicality and usability. He was one of the first to understand that these products would find a much larger audience among those who might not be technically inclined, and that they needed to be assessed differently. He took a position as an advocate for the user, and found a receptive audience by reminding his audience not to blame themselves for finding a product hard to use, because they were not alone.
When I was writing my book, "From Concept to Consumer: How to Turn Ideas Into Money," I asked Walt to describe the attributes of what he considered to be an excellent product. He told me:
"It is a product so useful in function and clear in its operation that its user, within days or weeks, wonders how she ever got along without it. This is not the same as having long lists of features, specs, speeds and feeds. In fact, my rule is that, if a product claims to have, say, 100 features, but an average person can only locate and use 11 of them in the first hour, then it has 11 features."
June 8, 2017
Best Porsche 911 value ? The 996 Turbo, 2001-2004
There are only two truly desirable 996-generation Porsches in our market: The 2001-2004 Turbo and the 2004 GT3. They have the effectively bulletproof split-cased engine, and they're both fast enough to keep up with modern performance cars. Values for these cars are already on the upswing. Feel free to jump on the bandwagon, if you have the $40,000 or more that's required to get a good example.
For everybody else, I would suggest buying a 997-generation Porsche instead. Although the pre-facelift 997s continue with the troublesome M96 engine, they are much nicer-looking inside and out. If you squint a bit, a 2005 997 looks quite a bit like the current car. That matters to people regardless of what they say or write on the Internet.
June 7, 2017
Personal Kanban works on two principles: Visualize your work, and limit your total number of "works in progress."
Personal Kanban works on two principles: Visualize your work, and limit your total number of "works in progress."
Starting but not finishing too many projects puts a person at risk of the so-called Zeigarnik effect, named for Bluma Zeigarnik, a Russian psychiatrist who, in the 1920s, discovered that people are better at remembering unfinished tasks than completed ones. Unfinished items that we've left hanging are like cognitive itches. (Zeigarnik first made this observation watching servers remember detailed meal orders at a restaurant only as long as the order was in process.)
June 6, 2017
Winter poggies: moufle-compak by ceunik
Winter poggies: moufle-compak by ceunik.
Poggies are big mittens fitted to handbars for winter cycling.
They look like oven mitts.