Month: October 2008

Scott Russell Sanders Just read “A Private History of Awe.” Wonderful book that resonated on so many different levels.

Cities rethink wisdom of 50s-era parking standards – USATODAY.com Officials hope that offering the freedom to forgo parking will lead to denser, more walkable, transit-friendly development.

Mayor promotes traffic-calming aids To slow traffic and to protect children who walk to school, Mayor Pasquale Menna wants to increase traffic-calming measures and pedestrian crossings on busy access streets in the borough.

I’ve been working a lot with color profiles and trying to get my photos to look the same in different browsers lately (photos look very different in Firefox vs Safari). This has made me more aware of color profiles and display temperatures than usual so I thought I was just seeing things when I returned…

Noticed this morning just how much larger the 15" MPB is than my previous 13" white laptop. My new one barely squeezes into my timbuk2 messenger bag. I’m digging the larger display for photo editing but think the 13" is more practical for day to day work. The 15" is not quite big enough to…

Children With Attention Deficits Concentrate Bette…[J Atten Disord. 2008] – PubMed Result Link to Journal article re: Children With Attention Deficits Concentrate Better After Walk in the Park.

A ‘Dose of Nature’ for Attention Problems – Well Blog – NYTimes.com [duh!!!!] The researchers found that a “dose of nature” worked as well or better than a dose of medication on the child’s ability to concentrate. What’s not clear is how long the nature…

Editing photos on new mbp, base model upgraded to 4GB RAM. Very zippy. New trackpad gestures are killer.

Count Basie Remodel: Had a chance to walk through the theater this afternoon and take some pictures. The rest of the photos will be posted in some different news articles around the web, but here’s a sample.

No Firewire port on the new macbook means no video editing. That’s bit lame. AAPL forcing consumers to buy MBPs to do video?