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Recently, Drachten received international attention for a traffic experiment known as shared space, a concept pioneered by Hans Monderman. Almost all traffic lights and signs have been removed in the city centre in an effort to improve traffic safety, based on the theory that drivers pay more attention to their surroundings when they cannot rely on strict traffic rules. Previously the city centre had an average of 8 accidents per year. Since the new system was introduced in 2003, this has been reduced to effectively 0.[1]
The German town of Bohmte adopted a similar scheme in September 2007.[2]
Monthly Archive for December, 2008
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—70% of Twitter users joined in 2008
—20% of Twitter users have joined in the past 60 days
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We are witnessing the rise of a new kind of web: contextual. You might not have heard or thought about it much yet, but you are already using it today. Search remains the killer app on the web, but context is quickly become a viable contender. Why? Because context is what happens instead of search. (…)
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yet another "edge"-case totally ignored by apple. Is it so unusual that people have a computer at work and another one at home?
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Via web2pro by Korben
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Evaluation ARGUS en ligne (eurotax). 11 CHF.
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requires firmware 2.1, of course…
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Joongel, SearchBoth, Dogpile & Viewzi explained
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free js debugger
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Seems a little weird to me, but defnitely worth following…
