Virginia Department of Transportation’s (VDOT) Mike Salmon said:
“It is a low cost strategy to get motorists to slow down as they approach the bike trail and pedestrian path. While at first motorists may be a little disoriented, the main point is to get them to pay attention and slow down through that area.”
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With our economy racing back to the 1930s, pretty soon these gadgets might be new again. So let’s reconsider a few of these bygone technologies and see how they might be re-purposed for life in the 21st Century.

In the days before radar existed, this was the only way to detect incoming aircraft. These days it could be adopted by the NSA to listen in on Al Qaeda chatter…

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Nah, on second thought, better take the bus. C’mon Japan, WTF? Hentai as a form of city planning, or just trying to “cute up” old Godzilla’s image? For those of you who are (even more) confused, Wikipedia can bring you up to speed: “Hentai is a Japanese word that, in the West, is used when referring to…

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From the New York Times, Drilling Down – Internet Mirrors Recession’s Gloom:
Americans’ search patterns reflect their narrowing financial straits, according to the marketing research firm comScore. The number of Internet searches incorporating the word “unemployment” more than tripled from December 2007 to December 2008. Bankruptcy appeared in more than twice as many searches, and “coupons” [...]

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AKA The People’s Republic of Warhol. Cynical Realism is a contemporary Chinese art trend that began in Beijing in the 1990s, and has since grown to become the most popular Chinese modernist art movement in mainland China.

It arose through the pursuit of individual expression by Chinese artists that broke away from the collective mindset that existed since the Cultural Revolution. The major themes tend to focus on socio-political issues and events since Revolutionary China (1911) to the present. These include having a, usually humorous and post-ironic, take on a realist perspective and interpretation of transition that Chinese society has been through, from the advent of Communism to today’s industrialization and modernization.

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Ry Cooder, quoted in the June 27, 2005 New Yorker “Talk of the Town” piece, “Stadia Mania”, in which touches on the quintessential L.A. phenomenon whereby kipple architecture is built, torn down, and replaced by new buildings with an even higher kipple quotient…

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