This handy chart will show you when it might be better to walk than wait for the next bus (assuming that you can either walk a 15 or 20 minute mile).
If you had a bike, you wouldn’t have to worry about either.
Two-legged dog walks like a human
September 6, 2009 @ 5:30 pm
Di showed me this video of an amazing dog who has only two legs and uses them to walk upright like a human being.
Sloths walking
December 12, 2008 @ 12:51 pm
Umm, why do sloths look so creepy when they’re on the ground? I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen a sloth out of a tree. Look at them! They crawl so slow and those long claws are just asking for some idiot to get too close so that the sloth can impale somebody’s face with them. Then again, the sloth would probably be too lazy to do such a thing. Just getting across the road is an incredible show of effort for the sloth.
There goes the tool bag
November 18, 2008 @ 6:40 pm
During a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS), a tool bag drifted away and became “lost in space” (it was irretrievable).
Here’s what NASA has to say on the event:
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper has resumed work on SARJ cleanup and lubrication. At approx. 3:33 p.m. EST, Piper reported that one of the Braycote lubrication guns had released grease into her toolbag. As she was cleaning the bag and wiping the tools and equipment inside, the bag floated away. Another bag carrying identical equipment is now being shared by Piper and Bowen. EVA officers in Mission Control believe there is enough equipment for the spacewalkers to complete the planned SARJ trundle bearing assembly removal and race ring cleaning.
Well, at least they have enough to finish the repairs and installations aboard the ISS. Man, imagine if they didn’t. They would have flown all the way to space for nothing!
Pedestrian scramble in Toronto
October 30, 2008 @ 11:25 pm
Scramble from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo.
This is a time-lapse video of Toronto’s first “pedestrian scramble” crossing, an intersection that stops all traffic to give pedestrians the right-of-way on all corners (also known as “priority crossing“). I’m simply posting this because I really like watching this video. That’s all.
Transportation Alternatives: CrashStat 2.0
October 8, 2008 @ 5:52 pm
Some of you know this already, but I’m a pretty big sucker for visual data sets, especially when the data sets are Google Maps mashups, like this one from Transportation Alternatives.
TA has updated their CrashStat map showing pedestrian and bicycle accidents in the New York City area from 1995 to 2005. That’s a whole decade’s worth of crash statistics all laid out on a map with larger circles indicating higher risk areas. Midtown seems to be the most dangerous place to walk or bike in all of NYC, but this is of course because there are more people, cars, and bicyclists in Midtown than any other area in NYC.
As a pedestrian or bicyclist in NYC, you should always be in your highest guard, but this map shows you where you definitely need to heighten your senses…OR RISK DEATH.
And so, now you know!
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