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MTA Subway Map

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:39:11 GMT

MTA Subway Maps for Lower Manhattan

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:52:10 GMT

clipped by: ccsareainfo
clipper's remarks: MTA page featuring PDF maps of Bus and Subway lines for Lower Manhattan.

Clip Source: www.mta.info

The subway map is in a format that allows you to click on stations and find out information about the lines. The bus maps, because of their detail, are in PDF format , which allows you to adjust the magnification at the bottom of the screen. Because of the large amount of detail, all (except for the Staten Island Railway map) are too large to print. You can pick up a free printed bus or subway map on your local bus or at your subway station. You may also obtain a map by calling Customer Assistance at (718) 330-3322, 9 AM to 5 PM, weekdays.

Nyitott tudomány

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:14:49 GMT

clipped by: netszemle

Clip Source: www.nol.hu

A magyar származású Hernád István (Stevan Harnad) az egyik legelső e-periodika, az 1989-ben indult Psycoloquy alapítója, az MTA külső tagja. 1994-ben az elsők közt állt elő azzal a véleménnyel, hogy az adófizetők pénzéből finanszírozott kutatások eredményeit a polgároknak joguk van további fizetés nélkül megismerni az interneten.

Tags: web2, tudomany, www.telkes.net, netszemle

Disabled and Seniors pressured into new bus system

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:54:15 GMT

clipped by: deadcowkid
clipper's remarks: This may seem to you as not that relevant, but I assure you it is to the thousands of disabled who reply on public transportation to give them the freedom to get out like anyone else. This article comes from Beyond The Chronicle. An online paper that tends to show the other side of stories printed in the very bias San Jose Chronicle.

Clip Source: www.beyondchron.org

Both the hum-drum and the astounding happened at the Monday, December 17th static testing of the double-decker bus by members of the senior and the disabled communities.

As expected, no indication that MTA's media staff alerted the media to the special, one-hour static testing of the double-decker bus, though MTA's media staff were present for this.

But, MTA staff were there both "pimping" the disabled to support the double-decker bus and making it difficult to fill out a special survey questionnaire.

We were being told and pressed to go along with unnamed others preferences and choices! We were told our judgment should be subordinated to others, that we lacked reliable and independent judgment about our own life experiences.

In summary, a testing and survey process that isolates the disabled and seniors, pressures them to "get with the program", and hints at us to agree with the non-disabled who set the so-called "party line".

by Bob Planthold‚ Dec. 19‚ 2007

Women Won $10,000 for Subway Lap Dances

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:47:12 GMT

clipped by: TequilaBebop

Clip Source: www.upi.com

A video of four young women stripping and giving lap dances on New York's subway has become an Internet sensation

The four college-age women created the video for the best pole dancing in public video for Darejunkies.com, and won a $10,000 prize

"It was literally get on the train and go," said Laura Lee Anderson, 24, who appeared alongside Jessica Wu, Marissa Lupp and Isis Masoud in the hip-grinding video subway stunt that had males missing their stops and the MTA fuming.

"The last thing we want is for anyone to turn our subways into roving burlesque stages for crude exhibitionists," said NYC Transit spokesman Paul Fleuranges. "While the rules don't specifically state lap or pole dancing--what is depicted here is disorderly conduct."

The video goes as far as to show Lupp, 20, a New York University theater student, give new meaning to the word straphanger by dangling from the handrails and giving a male rider a lap dance.

Tags: lapdance, lap dance, pole dance, subway

CBS offers free wifi in midtown Manhattan

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:56:02 GMT

clipped by: ericskiff
clipper's remarks: Wow! The Clipmarks office is right smack in the middle of this. Very cool!

Clip Source: www.centernetworks.com

Some awesome news out of Manhattan today. CBS Corporation has announced today that it will "light up" midtown Manhattan with the creation of the "CBS Mobile Zone," a wireless high-speed network enabling New Yorkers with Wi-Fi-enabled cell phones, laptops or other devices to access the Internet for free, and make voice over internet (VOI) calls.

The zone will be from Times Square to Central Park South and from 6th Avenue to 8th Avenue and is a test in partnership with the MTA.

You might be asking what CBS gets out of the deal - ad impressions! New Yorkers who access the "CBS Mobile Zone," will be greeted by an ad-supported homepage

Old Subway cars will create reef off of Jersey Shore

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:57:41 GMT

clipped by: LisbethJ

Clip Source: www.amny.com

Retired subway cars make a splash

They are part of more than 1,600 stainless-steel passenger and work-crew subway cars that will head to their new homes off the Garden State and farther down the Eastern Seaboard starting in the late fall. Some have zipped down the track since the early 1960s and will continue to work in retirement -- as artificial reefs housing schools of fish while providing divers with an underwater glimpse of New York icons.

"They create a cave-like structure that let young hatchlings mature," said Mike Zacchea, a self-described reef dean for New York City Transit who is also an assistant chief of operations. "Within 30 days, marine life attaches to the car body."

The MTA board approved a $6.3 million contract this week to send the cars that run on the C and E lines, among others, to the coastlines of New Jersey, Delaware and other oceanside states. Among those cars are the first subway trains that had air-conditioning and stainless steel.

Tags: new jersey, reef, subway, trains, fish, mta

Violin Stolen From Sleeping Owner in New York Subway Reappears

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:40:30 GMT

clipped by: dorine
clipper's remarks: I'm so glad he got it back.

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

NEW YORK — A prized violin that was stolen while its owner snoozed on a hot subway train has been recovered.

"I'm of course overjoyed!!!," Tom Chiu, a Juilliard School graduate and founder of the avant-garde Flux Quartet, wrote Wednesday in an e-mail message about his Scarampella violin.

The violin and his backpack were stolen June 27.

Chiu said it was raining that night and he went into a hot and humid subway station after a performance and fell asleep. When he awoke, he said, his bags were gone.

Chiu, who calls his violin his "heart and soul for the last 13 years," said in a statement that the violin and the backpack and its contents were turned in to the Metropolitan Transit Authority's lost-and-found, and an MTA official contacted him late Tuesday.

The contents included a violin bow that Chiu has used since childhood.

"all have great sentimental value to me and are completely irreplaceable. I hope the person who has my violin will return it to me. I would be forever grateful."

Tags: violin, ny, found

メールの一括送信の話

Mon, 28 May 2007 13:08:54 GMT

clipped by: foxtheclip
clipper's remarks: やっぱり迷うよな・・・・

Clip Source: q.hatena.ne.jp

PHPでメールを1000メールアドレスに一斉送信する方法としては、下記の方法のどちらが良いのでしょうか？

・ループでMail関数を1000度実行
・メールヘッダーのBCCにメールアドレスを詰め込みMail関数を一度だけ実行

1 回答者：b-wind 2007-05-14 22:46:56 満足！ 27ポイント

どのような目的でどの程度ドメインの重複があるか無いかによって答えが全然変わってくると思うんだけど、

少なくとも BCC に 1000 件もアドレス書いたらはじくような MTA の方が多いと思う。

そんなに長いヘッダ付けれたっけ？

2 回答者：Yota 2007-05-15 08:33:18 満足！ 27ポイント

ほかに、データベースを利用するMail_Queue(PEAR)というのがあります。

http://pear.php.net/manual/ja/package.mail.mail-queue.php

3 回答者：toohigh 2007-05-15 08:41:02 満足！ 26ポイント

PHP が利用する MTA ( sendmail とか postfix とか ) を自由に設定できて、1000件とも全く同一の内容で良い ( 「○○××様」とかの文面も不要)という場合は、Mail関数を一度だけ方式の方が効率は良くなりそうです。

結局、効率と柔軟性のトレードオフなので、どちらが良いとは言いにくいかと。

Tags: mail, queue

Subway maps of the world, shown at equal scale

Thu, 10 May 2007 14:46:47 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: A bunch of subway system maps, redrawn as simple line drawings and all presented at the same map scale. I don't really know why, but this seems cool somehow.

Clip Source: www.fakeisthenewreal.org

subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale*

appx scale:
1 km = 7 pixels
1 km
1 mi


London Transport for London	New York MTA/PATH	Tokyo TRTA

Seoul Seoul Metro	Paris RATP	Moscow** Moskovskoe Metro

Mexico City El Sistema de Transporte Colectivo	Chicago CTA	Berlin*** BVG

Stockholm SL	Washington, DC WMATA	San Francisco MUNI/BART

Singapore SMRT	Los Angeles MTA	Madrid Metro de Madrid

Atlanta MARTA	Philadelphia SEPTA/PATCO	Montreal STM

Osaka Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau	Munich MVG	Hamburg Hochbahn

Barcelona TMB	Athens Attiko Metro	Toronto TTC

Hong Kong MTR	Vancouver TransLink	Beijing Beijing Subway

Boston MBTA	Saint Petersburg Petersburgskiy Metropoliten	Santiago Metro de Santiago

Vienna VOR	Budapest BKV	Marseille RTM

Brussels STIB-MIVB	Buenos Aires Metrovías

Tags: transportation, maps, cool, image, random_sh!t

The Murky World of High-Fructose Corn Syrup

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:33:51 GMT

clipped by: brotherhug
clipper's remarks: Nobody thinks of Coca-Cola as being a genetically modified beverage, but the sweetener used in it is derived using gm enzymes from gm corn. High fructose corn syrup is in most processed foods these days.

This article makes you wonder about it.

Clip Source: www.westonaprice.org

The Murky World of High-Fructose Corn Syrup

By Linda Joyce Forristal, CCP, MTA

Think of sugar and you think of sugar cane or beets. Extraction of sugar from sugar cane spurred the colonization of the New World. Extraction of sugar from beets was developed during the time of Napoleon so that the French could have sugar in spite of the English trading blockade.

Nobody thinks of sugar when they see a field of corn. Most of us would be surprised to learn that the larger percentage of sweeteners used in processed food comes from corn, not sugar cane or beets.

"The medical profession thinks fructose is better for diabetics than sugar," says Dr. Field, "but every cell in the body can metabolize glucose. However, all fructose must be metabolized in the liver. The livers of the rats on the high fructose diet looked like the livers of alcoholics, plugged with fat and cirrhotic."

Tags: health, sugar, fructose, junkfood

MetroCard

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:43:02 GMT

clipped by: drikin

Clip Source: www.kanshin.com

MetroCard (メトロカード)

ニューヨークはマンハッタンで地下鉄とバスが乗り放題になるカード。長期滞在する場合は、まっ先に購入したい。

地下鉄の駅や街中のグローサリーストアやデリなんかでも買えます。自販機もあってクレジットカード購入もOK。

１日中乗り放題の1-Day Fun Passが４ドル
１週間乗り放題の7-Day MetroCardが17ドル

１月間乗る放題の30-Day MatroCardは63ドル

1-Day Fun Passなら１日３回乗ればもとがとれます。7-Dayなら１日あたり1.6回、30-Dayなら１日あたり1.4回乗れば元が取れます。

これ以外にも度数制のPay-Per-Rideカードも3-80ドルの任意の額で購入できます（15ドル以上だと度数の特典あり）

ちなみに同じ地下鉄、同じバスに乗り直すには18分間またなければならないのですが、これんでかと思ったら自動改札（っていうのかな？）で１枚のカードで複数の人が入っちゃうことがあるからだとか。なるほど！

東京にも見習ってほしいぞ！電車乗り放題が難しいにしても、同じ方向のバスの無料乗り継ぎは世界主要都市の常識では？

http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/metrocard/

Tags: ny metro

Entymology of Asshat

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:13:58 GMT

clipped by: wurdzgurl
clipper's remarks: We've seen the pictures now lets do a entymological study of asshat!

Clip Source: www.mtannoyances.com

Hi there. Today at MTA we are going to attempt (with emphasis on attempt) to derive the etymology of the pejorative slang term 'asshat.' As you'll soon learn, this simultaneously vulgar, insulting, and yet wildly humorous and tongue-in-cheek word (I love it dearly) has an origin that is heavily shrouded in mystery.

There you have it. Let's move on now, okay? As far as a formal definition for 'asshat' is concerned, I choose to defer to our trusty Wikipedia. The following is an excerpt from its entry for the noun asshole:

Asshat is a slightly more trendy and less severe variation of asshole, graphically describing someone who has his "head up his ass" (i.e., not knowing what's going on), or a variation of "butthead." In the former sense, it is suggested that one is wearing one's ass for a hat, or alternately, a hat for one's ass (Some people view it as that from the waist up, you are a hat for your own ass).

A more modern usage of asshat describes a person doing something stupid, and can apply to anyone: "The boss is up to asshattery because he broke the computer even though he knew he was doing the wrong thing." This meaning was popularized by Something Awful character Jeff K.

I feel that you and I are both pretty comfortable with the definitional aspects of 'asshat.' The more pressing issue, at least from my perspective, is that of etymology. Here is where the conceptual pathway gets all kinds of muddy.

A poster named Rodney made the following remark regarding the origin of 'asshat' on the Tilted Forum Project forums:

There's an old army/navy term, 'brasshat,' that means a high-ranking officer—because of all the shiny braid and crap on their uniform hats. It's not a kindly term, either. So I could see a drift in terms from 'brasshat' to 'asshat.'

Mitch Robbins: That was "Have a pleasant and restful evening."

Ed Furillo: No, that was "I like your ass. Can I wear it as a hat?"

Hence, asshat...

Tags: asshat, linguistics

Sorry, Mike Daisey's New Play INVINCIBLE SUMMER

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:34:55 GMT

clipped by: nvizzini

Clip Source: www.publictheater.org

UNDER THE RADAR
A festival tracking new theater

January 17, 2007 – January 28, 2007

INVINCIBLE SUMMER
Created and performed by Mike Daisey
Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory (New York)

THE PUBLIC THEATER - 425 Lafayette Street
Tickets: $15
Click here to order tickets online or call 212-967-7555.

Photo by Ursa Waz

SCHEDULE:
Thurs. Jan 18th 8pm
Sat. Jan 20th 9:30pm
Mon. Jan 22nd 9:30pm
Wed. Jan 24th 9:30pm
Thurs. Jan 25th 9:30pm
Fri. Jan 26th 9:30pm
Sat. Jan 27th 9:30pm
Sun. Jan 28th 4pm

Run Time: 90 Minutes

“Mike Daisey is a brainy, manic hoot, a cross between Noam Chomsky and Jack Black.”
- Seattle Times

"One of the finest solo performers of his generation."
- The New York Times

Monologuist Mike Daisey tells his story of the last glorious summer before everything changed. Starting with the bizarre history of the MTA’s epic subway system, Daisey crafts a startling vision of his Brooklyn neighborhood before and after one terrible day, setting an intensely personal story of a family in crisis against the backdrop of massive social upheaval. INVINCIBLE SUMMER is a tale of loss and democracy for our time brought to life by one of the theatre’s fiercest and funniest storytellers.

Mike Daisey has earned wide acclaim for his monologues which have been performed nationally and internationally, including 21 Dog Years, The Ugly American, Monopoly!, andTRUTH. He’s a commentator for National Public Radio’s Day To Day, and a contributor to WIRED Magazine, Slate, and Salon. Currently he is working on his second book, Great Men of Genius, adapted from his monologue about Bertolt Brecht, P.T. Barnum, Nikola Tesla and L. Ron Hubbard.

Mikedaisey.com

“One of the finest solo performers of his generation.”
- New York Times

>back to list of shows

Menu bar photo credit: Marianne Barr & Mia Jacobsen

Tags: performance

Mike Daisey's New Monologue UNDER THE RADAR

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:31:46 GMT

clipped by: nvizzini

Clip Source: www.publictheater.org

UNDER THE RADAR
A festival tracking new theater

January 17, 2007 – January 28, 2007

INVINCIBLE SUMMER
Created and performed by Mike Daisey
Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory (New York)

THE PUBLIC THEATER - 425 Lafayette Street
Tickets: $15
Click here to order tickets online or call 212-967-7555.

Photo by Ursa Waz

SCHEDULE:
Thurs. Jan 18th 8pm
Sat. Jan 20th 9:30pm
Mon. Jan 22nd 9:30pm
Wed. Jan 24th 9:30pm
Thurs. Jan 25th 9:30pm
Fri. Jan 26th 9:30pm
Sat. Jan 27th 9:30pm
Sun. Jan 28th 4pm

Run Time: 90 Minutes

“Mike Daisey is a brainy, manic hoot, a cross between Noam Chomsky and Jack Black.”
- Seattle Times

"One of the finest solo performers of his generation."
- The New York Times

Mikedaisey.com

“One of the finest solo performers of his generation.”
- New York Times

>back to list of shows

Menu bar photo credit: Marianne Barr & Mia Jacobsen

Tags: performance

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MTA Subway Map

MTA Subway Maps for Lower Manhattan

Nyitott tudomány

Disabled and Seniors pressured into new bus system

Women Won $10,000 for Subway Lap Dances

CBS offers free wifi in midtown Manhattan

Old Subway cars will create reef off of Jersey Shore

Retired subway cars make a splash

Violin Stolen From Sleeping Owner in New York Subway Reappears

メールの一括送信の話

PHPでメールを1000メールアドレスに一斉送信する方法としては、下記の方法のどちらが良いのでしょうか？ ・ループでMail関数を1000度実行 ・メールヘッダーのBCCにメールアドレスを詰め込みMail関数を一度だけ実行

1 回答者：b-wind 2007-05-14 22:46:56 満足！ 27ポイント

2 回答者：Yota 2007-05-15 08:33:18 満足！ 27ポイント

3 回答者：toohigh 2007-05-15 08:41:02 満足！ 26ポイント

Subway maps of the world, shown at equal scale

subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale*

The Murky World of High-Fructose Corn Syrup

The Murky World of High-Fructose Corn Syrup

MetroCard

MetroCard (メトロカード)

Entymology of Asshat

Sorry, Mike Daisey's New Play INVINCIBLE SUMMER

Mike Daisey's New Monologue UNDER THE RADAR

PHPでメールを1000メールアドレスに一斉送信する方法としては、下記の方法のどちらが良いのでしょうか？

・ループでMail関数を1000度実行
・メールヘッダーのBCCにメールアドレスを詰め込みMail関数を一度だけ実行