Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Details here. I agree with hating when people ask how much shit costs, that’s the #1 question we get with our Smart car. I usually just answer MSRP. It only takes 1 google search to find out, not sure why they have to ask and then sometimes pass some kindda judgement afterwards, like, “wow, it’s only half a car and it costs this much?”
Monsieur Saint Laurent died today, he was truly an icon.
I’m a long time reader of Umair’s blogs, it was quite a surprise to see that he mentioned SuperFuture! Hell yeah! I wonder if he posts his fits!
My favorite example is the What Are You Wearing Today thread at Superfuture, a fashion microcommunity (sorry for the unwanted attention, guys). It?s literally thousands of pages of connected consumers posing, checking each other out, and telling each other if cool brands actually make them cool ? or not.
Superfuture is the small tip of a very large iceberg: the massive defection to hundreds of thousands of social networks and microcommunities, where connected consumers endlessly discuss, debate, and validate brands and their promises.
[From The Shrinking Advantage of Brands – Harvard Business Online’s Umair Haque]
lol
British schoolchildren in the west of England are terrorizing their chums by impersonating pedophile stalkers.
[From Kids scare each other by impersonating online pedophiles – Boing Boing]
This is pretty useful, I am working on another site but it won’t be much of a social site, but I am definitely using quite a few of the plugins in this list. (instead of acts_as_taggable_on_steroids we’re trying to use acts_as_taggable_on). I also think cache_fu will be a must-have if you ever think the site is gonna have real traffic.
This is pretty awesome, and yeah, Oliver People sucks and this stuff is probably gonna suck more. Sadly, they will probably still sell well just because lots of people will still buy them.
There are some styles in the sunglass collection that are mildly attractive, with semi-original (as in “forgotten”) touches, but the ophthalmic line-up needs complete and serious reforestation.
THE VERDICT: Never coming to Spectacles for Humans.
UPDATE: Well…Few hours after the post went online, we received a polite phone call from BartonPerreira people saying they could not help but notice the write up and asking if they can show us the collection in person.
O….K….Sure. We’ll look, but we not changing our minds. And besides, you will do well in stores that you’re already in.
Nice, this guy designed the NSX, that’s pretty kickass! also, “cars, email, digital photography, and high speed wireless”, sounds like I would fit in just fine… 😉
First and foremost, Howard is a geek. After graduating from MIT, Howard didn’t join an investment bank; he joined Honda Motor Company where he served as an ergonomics engineer. He got to build awesome products like the NSX. If there is one thing we like to do at partners meetings while eating lunch, it is talk about cars. Cars and email. Cars, email and digital photography. Cars, email, digital photography and high speed wireless. Cars, email, digital photography, high speed wireless and smart phones. Cars, email, digital photography . . . you get the point. Howard is a welcomed addition to the conversation.
[From Welcoming Howard Hartenbaum to August Capital – VentureBlog]
I’ve spent up to 45 minutes looking for parking in North Beach, this is interesting…
Under the program, which will focus on 10 neighborhoods, the city will adjust hourly parking rates based on demand – the price will go up when spaces are scarce and go down when plenty are available.
People may be less inclined to drive during peak times if they know it will cost them more.
It’s the same congestion-relief concept the Golden Gate Bridge district is preparing to impose on southbound drivers during peak commute times. San Francisco also is studying the idea of charging motorists a fee for driving on certain city streets during rush hour.
SFpark won’t stop at tweaking parking rates. It also will adjust time limits. Drivers, for instance, may be allowed to park for no more than an hour in a particular neighborhood commercial district during the day, when shopkeepers benefit from high turnover, but may be able to park longer at night, so they can linger at a restaurant or catch a show. Hours of meter operation might be expanded.
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Demonstration parking program
City officials picked these locations – which have a variety of parking issues – to test a range of parking policies and technologies.
Downtown: Garages, on-street commercial loading zones.
Civic Center/Hayes Valley: Balancing needs of short-term visitors and workers looking for all-day parking.
Fillmore: Nighttime demand due to clubs and music halls.
Fisherman’s Wharf: Major tourist hub on weekends and holidays.
Southern Embarcadero: Special-event parking tied to the ballpark.
Chestnut and Lombard streets: Relaxing time limits and pricing parking by time of day and length of stay.
Mission and Valencia streets: Metered parking and lots, commercial district active day and night.
Union Street: Impact new meters have on parking availability.
Clement Street, Geary Boulevard and West Portal Avenue: Status quo control areas for comparison with areas where parking changes are enacted.
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By the numbers
11,677
Parking spaces in city-run lots
6,425
Curbside metered spaces affected by the pilot project
$23 million
Parking test program’s budget
$18 million
Federal government’s share