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Two apps for choosing bike routes: one good, one bad

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Bikes, Transportation
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...anes and paths were. Now, there are apps for that. The Good: Google Maps In 2010, a bike option was added to Google Maps. While not perfect, it works surprisingly well. Combined with a little familiarity with what streets are good and bad to ride on, I now find that I rarely look at the city’s bike maps anymore. Here’s an example: one weekend this month, Kelly needed the car and I had to across town, from the La Brea Expo line station to the new W...

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Return of the Walkman?

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Appropriate Technology, Water and Power
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...(Sport WM-FS397, to be exact). Here’s an “exploded” view: The BBC, back in 2010, gave a 13 year-old a Walkman to review. Here’s what the kid said: It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassett...

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Nature Fest this Weekend!

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Events
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...one in collaboration with the Ecology Center, on container gardening, rainwater harvesting, bicycle basics, backyard chickens and food preservation. They’ll be priced to fly out of those boxes in my garage! I’ll also be doing a coffee demo at 1pm on both Saturday and Sunday and dispensing free advice in the booth for the entirety of the festival. Please drop by and hang out. And dig the book racks I built out of scrap plywood! See you this weekend...

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Saturday Tweets: Holiday Edition

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Saturday Linkages
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...tp://t.co/tyqrmuyI0n — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 16, 2014 An exploration of the basis for patient complaints about the oldness of magazines in waiting rooms: http://t.co/JdHyZpiEER — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 16, 2014 http://t.co/SKIBog5Bo4: Tiny House Space Saver- Make this great coffee tab… http://t.co/WteWK4SBKu — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 15, 2014 Will A Gluten-Free Diet Really Make You Healthier? – Consumer Reports...

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