Randy Gregory has created a quick blog to highlight 100 improvements he’d like to see made to New York City’s Subay System. So many of them are simple, cheap solutions that would greatly enhance the system – like directional arrows on stairs or changing the orintation of staton signs. Still, other great ideas will be costly like USB power chargers, bike racks, and protective barriers on the tracks.
It’s a great list and he’ll post new ideas every day. So far, he’s up to 58.
via Explore
Michael Arrington taliking about the need to understand what the “rules” are for a surveillance state:
Do nothing to draw attention to yourself. Think carefully about every email, phone call, Facebook like and Twitter favorite and make damn sure that doesn’t conflict with our government’s goals either today or tomorrow.
The end conclsuion he draws is an important one to note: “Support nothing and condemn nothing.”
It’s good that the conversation is out there. Hopefully, this is something we have the courage to fix.
I think I watched the trailer for Season 1 of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee but I never watched the series. But the second season trailer is out and It’s certainly piqued my interest. Chris Rock, David Letterman, Seth Meyers, and others are going to be featured and, of course, all of Jerry Seinfeld’s cars.
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Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars Trilogy, was stopped at airport security for a while because he uses a unique lightsaber cane. At 7ft 2in, he needs it to walk and was stopped until he started tweeting about being held by the TSA.
via Boing Boing
Apple is live-streaming the WWDC today. One of the ways you can watch the keynote is using an Apple TV. If that doesn’t tell you what’s possible with that product and the direct monitization that could come from it, I don’t know what else does.