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I needed better and quicker access to information when sightseeing around London. I put together this page so I could listen to Wikipedia entries about a thing while looking at it. So now while I'm looking at the London Stone I can have the London Stone page read to me!
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@MichaelWhelan Love the picture, though it has a manic pixie dream girl vibe that I didn't get from the book (which, admittedly, I haven't read for more than 30 years)
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Dogs Walk of Fame
In a tribute to famous dogs, the Royal Kennel Club placed six plaques on park benches in Battersea Park.
Some of the honored dogs included Lassie, Toto from The Wizard of Oz, Bullseye from Oliver!, and Fang from the Harry Potter film series.
As far as I can tell no one ever followed up to add more plaques though.
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Deep below London, HS2’s twin tunnels advance towards Euston station
"According to HS2, both TBMs are currently progressing at speeds of up to 150 metres per week as they carve their way through the London clay and head towards passing under residential neighbourhoods. As of a couple of days ago, TBM Madeline was starting to pass under the Grand Union Canal near Scrubbs Lane, with TBM Karen is about 100 metres behind."
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@nicholdav @astrojuanlu I think maybe the most important law of software architecture is Conway's Law - the structure of the program will tend to reflect the structure of the organization. Most scientific apps will probably reflect the very simple structure of the lab that supports them.
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The amount of money local governments spend on putting in and ripping out infrastructure boggles my mind.
"The council said the proposed changes would “introduce expanded capacity for vehicles travelling towards the town centre” and “pave the way” for an already-approved new bus lane on London Road"
We need a sexier way to say "Induced Demand". Something like, "People use what they're given".
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Lawmakers eye road spending review as universally hated Mid-States Corridor nears construction
"Latest cost estimates put the total project at more than $3 billion...We’ll have to see how many dollars we have available to do that, because we certainly don’t want to do a huge project like that and then our safety improvement projects get put on hold,”
What IS this? The legislature doing sensible things is disrupting my whole worldview.
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London's West End streets could become a vast new public plaza under latest plans
"The plans would see Regent Street St James’s pedestrianised, and Haymarket converted into two-way traffic.
Further south, at the junction with Pall Mall, they propose pedestrianising Waterloo Place, the wide open area filled with statues and grand buildings."
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Man, 79, dies following collision in Rayners Lane
I am appreciative of Harrow Online and how it reports on the number of people in Harrow being killed by cars, but I have to say the number of them makes me really nervous. Is this how many people are being killed in every district, or is Harrow particularly dangerous? 😬
https://harrowonline.org/2025/12/23/man-79-dies-following-collision-in-rayners-lane/
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TIL that the science of informatics as applied to geology, seismology, geophysics, etc. is called "geoinformatics". Maybe obvious, but I never put it together!
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Indiana women’s basketball adds sixth-ranked class of 2026, per ESPN
"The Hoosiers officially signed four players for the class of 2026 on Wednesday: guards Ashlinn James and GiGi Battle, wing Addison Nyemchek, and center Zoe Jackson. ESPN ranked Indiana’s class the sixth-best in the country."
Should put them right back in the tournament mix! But I don't know how NIL is affecting the women's game, or whether IU is willing to pony up for it.
https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/indiana-womens-basketball-adds-sixth-ranked-class-of-2026-per-espn/
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Aurora: A Foundation Model for the Earth System
"Trained on vast amounts of data, it’s tuned to model the Earth’s systems. Aurora has already shown promise across multiple scenarios, including predicting the weather, tracking hurricanes and air quality, and modeling ocean waves and energy flows."
I first saw this in a Microsoft newsletter, and traced it through a Nature paper and a Github repo. It might be fun to play with!
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Insane Clown Posse joins cause to raise money after Newburgh girl's death
"Around the same time as ICP's share, the GoFundMe fielded a $500 donation credited to Joseph Bruce, the real name of group front man Violent J. An anonymous $500 donation came in the same day, and multiple smaller donations have poured in since.
"All set," one X comment reads. "Not much, but family is family."
"Rest in peace, little Juggalette," another says."
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Deteriorating sidewalks in Indianapolis neighborhood spark community outcry
"The sidewalks along Nowland Avenue are in particularly poor shape, according to locals, who describe the scene as “really bad,” with many curbs missing and weeds growing uncontrollably."
The city's response is that "Repairs are addressed as funding becomes available" which I suspect means "Repairs are not addressed."
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I need to sell my two Magnum e-bikes.
Magnum isn't listed at bicyclebluebook.com though - is there some comparable brand I could use to set a price? They're about five years old, in great shape.
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Ohio man accused of hitting 3 kids on bicycle, driving away
Joseph Fox of Sandusky allegedly hit three juveniles riding a three-wheeled bicycle from behind. One child jumped off just before the crash, the other two were hospitalized with serious injuries.
The article makes sure to mention that the kids weren't wearing helmets, even though helmets don't offer much protection in collisions with cars.
Fox faces several charges including DUI.
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This is a freaking awesome lecture.
Programming for All: A Feminist Case for Language Design
https://on.acm.org/t/programming-for-all-a-feminist-case-for-language-design/3398
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90-year-old biker killed by driver in Nappanee
The article says, "The man was riding a three wheeled bike when he apparently turned in front of a car and was hit." At 90 years old it's not impossible, but of course we'll never get his side of the story. Drivers rarely say afterwards that they drifted into the bike lane while looking at their phones.
https://www.wndu.com/2025/06/19/90-year-old-man-hit-by-car-killed-while-riding-bike-nappanee/
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Sketch, capture and layout phylogenies
"We present new algorithms for visualizing rooted phylogenetic networks as either combining or transfer networks, in both cladogram and phylogram style. In addition, we introduce a layout algorithm that aims to improve clarity by minimizing the total stretch of reticulate edges."
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Trying to install Evo2? CUDA_HOME is hardcoded into the Vortex makefile so if you have a nonstandard installation you will have to edit it directly.
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Guardian Bikes Inks Financing Deal to Re-Shore Bike Frame Manufacturing to Indiana
"The new facility, located in Guardian’s manufacturing hub in Seymour, IN, represents a key step in re-shoring a business that was once a cornerstone of American manufacturing but has nearly entirely offshored for decades, principally in Taiwan."
Gutsy move. Hope Kraznov doesn't shut them down.
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Best of luck to the new Hoosiers basketball coach. There is a lot of flux right now, but I think it's safe to say that the strategy of paying a coach gazillions of dollars to find the best players willing to play for free is over. Players will have to be enticed with NIL cash, and lots of it, since Indiana has no natural advantages like oceans or mountains, and plenty of obstacles like bad government and racism. We'll see what happens.
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Next year I want to see the stat, "Possessions ended by the refs without a shot". I bet Indiana would lead the league. Hanging tough against South Carolina at the half though!
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USC is using their height advantage to drop 15-footers from all over. Without those IU would be up by a ton. Thriller of a game going into the fourth quarter!
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Faith Wiseman accounting for herself quite well after the refs decide they don't want Indiana's starting post players in the game.
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Protip: If you specify an AlphaFold 3 ligand by ccdCode, it has to have brackets around it. If it doesn't, each individual element of the string will be evaluated as a code which is probably not what you want.
Wrong:
"ccdCodes": "C2E"
ValueError: Unknown residue type 2Right:
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26-17 #iuwbb over Ohio State after the first quarter. I don't know about them, but *I'm* exhausted.
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How is Nebraska 7-3 in the Big Ten? Did they play Purdue six times?
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GNU Recutils: A Plaintext database format
"Recutils is a collection of tools, like recins, recdel, and recsel used to manage these recfiles/databases. They allow for all the normal basic relational database operations, typing, auto-incrementing, and even field-level crypto. All of this power is yours with the bonus that your database is a human-readable text file that you can grep/awk/sed freely"
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IndyGo receives $149 million federal grant for Blue Line bus rapid transit project
"Officials said the 24-mile project will “provide fast and frequent public transportation” for one of the main east-west travel corridors in Marion County. This will include 12 miles of dedicated bus-only lanes in the “urban core”
The route will provide access to downtown, the Capitol, the airport and the zoo, as well as three high schools.
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How to Sell Congestion Pricing
"Governor Hochul can do a lot to ensure this traffic tax earns out, both financially and politically — and if she can get it right, it will be a model of Democratic recovery and impact. Her challenge boils down to three things: show that it works, for whom it works and why New York decided to do it in the first place."
(Gift link)
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"I've never seen so many offensive fouls called on screens" - announcers watching #iuwbb
UCLA deserves their uptown top ranking and IU will have to play just about perfectly to win. But it would be better not to have to play against UCLA AND the refs.
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Bowing to reality, I'm sure there are more Colts fans at the Crazy Horse than #iuwbb fans. I still think they could have given us sound until that game started though.
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Cleveland: As RTA Teases Plan for West 25th Street Bus Rapid Transit Line, a Debate About Design and Bike Lanes
I think the author is pretty anti-bike lane, although it's mostly subtle stuff. But there's also this gem: "Others feel that tampering with delicate on-street parking spots would draw complaints from businesses." Seriously?
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Unfortunate that the #IndyEleven season ended last night, but one must soldier forward. So tonight, I'm at Assembly Hall to watch #iuwbb and ask the age-old question we all ask at the beginning of each season: Who *are* all those players?
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Nashville's initial BRT plan went to Indianapolis
"Leaders had proposed a dedicated lane down West End, known as “the Amp.”
The Amp proposal was thwarted amid major opposition. When the plan died, the federal funding that Nashville had received for it was redirected to a different city.
“You can ride the Amp, but you have to go to Indianapolis to do it,” Bland said."
#Indianapolis #Nashville #BusRapidTransit
https://wpln.org/post/what-nashvilles-bus-rapid-transit-could-look-like/
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N Dunn St Multiuse Path
Oh, this will make my commute way easier! A few years from construction though.
"This project has been prioritized by the Metropolitan Planning Organization to receive federal funding supporting construction of a multiuse path on North Dunn Street from the Indiana 45 Bypass to East Clover Lane. As funding allows, the project may include additional multiuse path construction north of these limits."
https://bloomington.in.gov/engineering/projects/northdunnpath
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Indiana American Water to Remove Rockford Dam in Seymour
"Removal of the dam will improve safety for recreational users of the river by eliminating recirculating currents that are typically associated with low-head dams. The project will also enhance habitat and aquatic species biodiversity and restore the natural river ecosystem, which gained the attention of several organizations seeking to restore aquatic ecosystems."
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New Chief Executive Officer at Newfields in Indianapolis
This looks promising. The CFO of the Field Museum, Le Monte G. Booker, is taking over Newfields. The resume is right at least.
“I am thrilled to start my next chapter as the CEO of Newfields, which is an outstanding example of a cornerstone cultural institution in the unique position of having both a world-class art collection as well as important gardens and historic homes."
https://wibc.com/428997/new-chief-executive-officer-at-newfields-in-indianapolis/
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USDOT Releases National Deployment Plan for V2X
"...focused on road safety, mobility, and efficiency through technology that enables vehicles and wireless devices to communicate with each other and with roadside infrastructure. These technologies can enable a more safe, secure, and efficient transportation system while maintaining privacy and consumer protection"
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Fairfax County reveals next 10 schools to get speed cameras
"A speed survey conducted this past February found that all eight of the original school zones were seeing average speeds under 30 mph, a notable drop from pre-pilot speeds...“In pre-pilot surveys, it was noted that thousands of drivers exceeded the speed limit by more than 10 mph during a sample period in the tested school zones”
#Virginia #SpeedCameras #TrafficCalming
https://www.ffxnow.com/2024/08/19/fairfax-county-reveals-next-10-schools-to-get-speed-cameras/
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I see what Lexington is trying to do: provide bike/ped infrastructure as long as it doesn't inconvenience drivers in any way. So they've got nice wide downtown walking places next to three lanes of one-way traffic going 40 miles an hour. It's sad because they must have some political will for bike/ped, but all the cars makes downtown very uncomfortable. #LexingtonKY #UrbanPlanning
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Welp. 3-11 from three while South Carolina is 5-7. It's the difference, but IU not taking advantage of opportunities either. #iuwbb
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Milwaukee homeowners oppose I-94 expansion plan
"The Fix at Six coalition, which advocates for roadway safety improvement without the eight-lane freeway expansion.
“This freeway expansion is going to be catastrophic,” said Bowe. “There’s a planned additional ramp going from I-94 to 175, which is going to cut off all the green space, which is the little bit of green space that we have between us and the freeway now.”
https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2024/03/24/milwaukee--i-94-expansion-project--dot
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#iuwbb letting Fairfield stay in it by going 3-12 from three-point range, but still up 4 at the half. Hopefully the north basket will be friendlier.
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"The IU basketball fan base is a nuclear reactor, capable of powering this program for decades — but also capable of a meltdown that withers everything around it. " - Gregg Doyel.
Brilliant analogy!
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BOTH centers went down with injuries against Maryland. Good thing they don't have early round games next week! #iuwbb #IUHoosiers