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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Another better stoplight

A couple months ago I wrote about the four phase traffic signals I saw in Sweden and Denmark. These are better than the three phase lights we use in the United States. The improved lights help smooth the flow of traffic, improve safety, and save gas. Today I saw a post about a fancier version. [...]

Flood control

In a welcome change from projects like the Foster Park Flood Creation Project, which will make downtown flooding worse, a reasonable approach is being used in one Fort Wanye neighborhood. Homeowners in an area along Junk Ditch are being given the option of selling their houses to the city. According to the News-Sentinel, nearly half [...]

OS X’s Services menu

The Apple Services menu is a timesaving feature that has been improved in Snow Leopard. Services were occasionally useful in OS X 10.5, now with 10.6 they are a great feature. Before Snow Leopard, Services weren’t contextual. To run a service called Task, you’d click on Name of active program in the menu bar > [...]