nytimes.com - 11/2/2009
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PARIS Just as Le Corbusier ’s white cruciform towers once excited visions of the industrial-age city of the future, so Vélib’, Paris ’s bicycle rental system, inspired a new urban ethos for the era of climate change . Residents here can rent a sturdy bicycle from hundreds of public stations ...
vanbergeijk.com - 10/29/2009
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vanbergeijk.com —
This really is Mad Max country! Saw this
awesome – or I should say grouse – looking...
bicycle today when I went to Port Adelaide to pick up my stuff coming in from Rotterdam. It’s a Dunlop Bushranger mountain bike with a small, one ...
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Looks like Mad Max’s Bicycle
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Amazon-Zappos Deal Official, Conficker Virus Turns One
Switched —
... have been experimenting with free bike-sharing programs for decades, but they actually use recovered, unclaimed, and donated bikes. Duh. [From: The New York Times] ...
Regulatory failure
disco-tech | Discovery Institute's Technology Blog —
... central clearinghouse and his dealings with the firms that were supposedly handling his trades.
“If you’re looking at a Ponzi scheme, it’s the first thing you do,” he said.
Those simple steps, he added, could have revealed years earlier that he was running the largest Ponzi scheme ever, a crime that has now dragged the S.E.C. into the worst scandal in its 75-year history. “It would have been easy for them to see,” he added.Also this week, from Paris, news that government cannot even efficiently manage a bike-rental system. Many of the ...
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