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Report: Downtown Cincinnati population up 12%
Cincinnati's urban core continues to grow as a result of a strong community, strong city leadership, and efforts from groups like 3CDC.
cincinnati  cities  urbanism  downtown  from instapaper
7 days ago
30 Minutes on Mass Transit in 20 World Cities
A new website shows you exactly where you can go in under 30 minutes using mass transit.
transit  transportation  buses  cities  urbanism  from instapaper
8 days ago
Glenn Britt, CEO of Time Warner Cable: ‘I’m Not Sure I Know What AirPlay Is’
"Glenn A. Britt, the company’s chief executive, said in a group interview on Friday that the challenge for digital video was that there was no simple way to get Internet-based video onto the television screen."
media  television  internet  from instapaper
10 days ago
Fox News has finally figured out that low gas prices are bad
Fox News logic: "High gas prices are a sign of economic recovery, and Obama is to blame for the gas prices, but should not get credit for the recovery [...] Low gas prices are a sign of a flagging economy, which is Obama’s fault, but the low gas prices have nothing to do with him."
politics  Fox.News  Obama  transportation  gas  from instapaper
10 days ago
Taking in a concert doubleheader with Creed and Nickelback, the world's most hated bands
"Nickelback front man Chad Kroeger is tenderly coaching the audience on how to properly respond to the next song. 'Come on, ladies,' he says, 'let’s pretend you’re 13 fucking years old at a Justin fucking Bieber concert.' His argument makes a soft landing."
music  creed  nickelback  from instapaper
24 days ago
Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem
"The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe."
politics  tea.party  GOP  from instapaper
27 days ago
Hotel Wifi JavaScript Injection
"I’m paying $368 a night for a hotel room, and this is how I get treated."
tech  travel  wifi  ads  advertising  from instapaper
5 weeks ago
OMFG! Change! Media freaks out!
When anything changes, the mainstream media asks, "What can go wrong, and how can we use this to scare soccer moms?"
media  media.literacy  bias  from instapaper
5 weeks ago
Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out
Why Facebook wanted Instagram: It's a simple app that does one thing really well, and its users love it.
Instagram  iOS  iPhone  apple  Facebook  tech  startup  acquisition  business  from instapaper
6 weeks ago
Everyone Should Work A Service Job
In summary: people who have never had to work a retail-type job are generally spoiled brats.
economy  culture  jobs  millennials  from instapaper
8 weeks ago
Making the World's Largest Airline Fly
An interesting look at some of the technical issues a merged United-Continental airline will face.
aviation  United  Continental  merger  business  transportation  from instapaper
8 weeks ago
Study Tracks How Conservatives Lost Their Faith in Science
A frightening concept: "Confidence in science as an institution has steadily declined among Americans who consider themselves conservatives."
science  religion  GOP  tea.party  politics  from instapaper
8 weeks ago
The Iced-Coffee Economy: Why the Cold Stuff Costs More
coffee  food  from instapaper
8 weeks ago
Helicopter Parents Hover In The Workplace
Grow up, kids.
generation.gap  millennials  baby.boomers  employment  culture  jobs  economy  from instapaper
8 weeks ago
Making Over the Mall With Parks and Sermons
Turning suburban malls into "the downtowns that the suburbs never had"
urbanism  shopping  malls  retail  suburbs  from instapaper
11 weeks ago
PennDot: Rural Roads Subsidized More Than Mass Transit
Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation confirms urban residents subsidize rural transportation infrastructure.
urbanism  cities  infrastructure  from instapaper
11 weeks ago
A big day on the 520 bridge: Why I’m happy about the tolls
One Seattle journalist explains why he's happy an existing bridge was tolled.
infrastructure  transit  transportation  roads  Seattle  bridges  from instapaper
february 2012
Why we will no longer endorse in elections
The Chicago Sun-Times ends the practice of endorsing candidates in political races and bans their executives from contributing financially to campaigns.
politics  media  Chicago  ethics  journalism  from instapaper
february 2012
UC photos from the '30s and '40s
Great vintage photos from around the University of Cincinnati in the 1930s and 1940s, as collected by UC Magazine.
UC  Cincinnati  history  photos  vintage  college  from instapaper
february 2012
Netflix deal with Warner Bros. includes delay in queues
In a move that reeks of desperation, Warner Bros. announces that Netflix subscribers won't get new releases until 8 weeks after DVDs are available.
netflix  media  warner.brothers  movies  from instapaper
february 2012
Fixing “Previous Track”
The behavior of the "previous track" button is extremely frustrating when playing podcasts.
marco.arment  podcasts  iOS  ux  from instapaper
february 2012
Public Transportation is Communist!
The editors of the Cincinnati Enquirer are either clueless and out-of-touch with reality or actually attempting to start a modern day Red Scare by publishing this mindless letter-to-the-editor.
LTE  Cincinnati  Enquirer  transit  transportation  cities  urbanism  streetcar  from instapaper
january 2012
'Vocal Fry' Creeping Into U.S. Speech
"Vocal fry" my also be better known as "female NPR voice".
speech  communication  vocal.fry  npr  from instapaper
december 2011
Copyright and remix culture: The new Prohibition?
"Under current copyright law, nearly every cover song on YouTube is technically illegal. [...] No amount of lawsuits or legal threats will change the fact that this behavior is considered normal — I’d wager the vast majority of people under 25 see nothing wrong with non-commercial sharing and remixing, or think it’s legal already."
copyright  law  remix  youtube  riaa  mpaa  from instapaper
december 2011
How to Bridge Neighborhood Gaps? Turn Overpasses into Main Streets
Columbus, Ohio's I-670 cap is cited as a model for hiding urban expressways.
columbus  ohio  development  urbanism  cities  transportation  from instapaper
december 2011
The Death of the Fringe Suburb
"Simply put, there has been a profound structural shift — a reversal of what took place in the 1950s, when drivable suburbs boomed and flourished as center cities emptied and withered."
economy  development  housing  cities  urbanism  from instapaper
december 2011
The End of Cheap Coffee: Why the Diner Staple Is About to Become a Luxury
"It’s interesting to me that the same consumer that will go to 7-11 and buy a bottle of Fiji Water for five dollars will go crazy and complain about a cup of coffee."
coffee  food  economy  from instapaper
december 2011
The Book of Jobs
Re-examining the cause of the Great Depression—the revolution in agriculture that threw millions out of work—the author argues that the U.S. is now facing and must manage a similar shift in the “real” economy, from industry to service, or risk a tragic replay of 80 years ago.
economy  jobs  stimulus  infrastructure  government  from instapaper
december 2011
The Sounds of Silence
Even for big acts like Jason Isbell and Portugal The Man, stolen instruments are just part of life as a touring band.
music  artists  jason.isbell  portugal.the.man  from instapaper
december 2011
Family Guy writer's first-person account of his Occupy LA arrest
"An LAPD officer would forcibly extend the protestor’s legs, grab his left foot, twist it all the way around and then stomp his boot on the insole, pinning the protestor’s left foot to the pavement, twisted backwards. Then the LAPD officer would grab the protestor’s right foot and twist it all the way the other direction until the non-violent protestor, in incredible agony, would shriek in pain and unlink from his neighbor."
ows  occupy.la  police.brutality  from instapaper
december 2011
Hub changes hit Cincinnati hard
"Cincinnati, where Delta once had more than 600 daily departures, has now shrunk to the carrier’s smallest hub with roughly 130 flights a day."
cincinnati  travel  aviation  delta  cvg  from instapaper
november 2011
Bob Ross Washes his Brush
As always, with odorless thinner.
bob.ross  art  pbs  funny  from instapaper
november 2011
Making the Grade: Why the Cheapest Maple Syrup Tastes Best
When maple syrup was used mostly as a general-purpose sweetener, the lighter, less-flavorful variety was valued higher.
food  from instapaper
november 2011
Cities need to move their money
"Two weeks after Portland mayoral candidate state and Rep. Jefferson Smith publicly challenged Portland to move some of its money to local credit unions, Mayor Sam Adams this morning said he would pursue the cause. [...] When Portland follows through, it will cost Wells Fargo tens of millions of dollars."
politics  ows  portland  credit.unions  banks  from instapaper
november 2011
EU Bans Airport X-Ray Machines
"The simple fact is that even a 'low' x-ray exposure increases cancer risk, if only by a small amount. If you fly frequently, those small amounts add up."
aviation  travel  security  cancer  eu  tsa  from instapaper
november 2011
Why conservatives can't get people to work hard
"A winner-take-all society is not very conducive to hard work; I'm not going to bust my butt for 30 years for a 1% shot at getting into The 1%. But I am going to bust my butt for 30 years if I think this gives me a 90% chance of having a decent house, a family, some security, a reasonably pleasant job, a dog, and a couple of cars in my garage."
economics  politics  economy  jobs  from instapaper
november 2011
15 Food Companies that Serve You ‘Wood’
"He said cellulose [wood] is common in processed foods, often labeled as reduced-fat or high-fiber –- products like breads, pancakes, crackers, pizza crusts, muffins, scrambled eggs, mashed potato mixes, and even cheesecake. Inman himself keeps a box of Wheat Thins Fiber Selects crackers, manufactured by Kraft Foods Nabisco brand, at his desk, and snacks on them daily, clearly unmoved by the use of wood pulp in its ingredients."
food  health  from instapaper
november 2011
Scott Adams: My Presidential Bid
"On day one of my presidency I would form a committee of libertarians to recommend ways to shrink government. But I would require them to describe in detail how the country would look when those government functions disappear."
politics  scott.adams  dilbert  from instapaper
november 2011
Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
programming  development  tech  jobs  careers  from instapaper
november 2011
Thousands Of Trucking Jobs, But Few Take The Wheel
Long hours, low pay, and time away from family mean more trucking jobs are going unfilled, even in this time of high unemployment.
transportation  freight  trucking  jobs  economy  from instapaper
november 2011
Cincinnati defeats Issue 48 and votes a younger, more progressive city council into office
Four incumbents ousted. Three newcomers voted in. Overall, great news for Cincinnati.
city  urbanism  from instapaper
november 2011
The Comparison Advantage
"You don't want to be the worst performer at work, the weakest member of your sports team, the least successful person at your class reunion, and so on."
stress  money  from instapaper
november 2011
Restaurant Grease As Good As Gold To Biofuel Thieves
"Yellow grease, the proper name for cooking oil that's had the food and trash filtered out of it, is selling for about 40 cents a pound, almost five times what it was a decade ago. That means a gallon of yellow grease today sells for more than $3 a gallon — on par with a gallon of milk."
biofuel  biodiesel  energy  economy  green  from instapaper
november 2011
Creativity Spurt
Scott Adams: "I think we're experiencing a worldwide creativity boom. I'm not sure I've ever seen anything like it."
politics  usa  innovation  from instapaper
november 2011
Fairness Again
"When evaluating fairness, we understand that you need to throw everything into the mix. You can't isolate one variable. For example, when comparing the tax burden on the rich versus the other 99%, you want to look beyond the federal income tax rate and include payroll taxes, sales taxes, and any other taxes... Why don't we also tally up the benefits of the taxes? That's part of the equation too."
taxes  ows  equality  from instapaper
november 2011
American Quirks
Things foreigners find strange when visiting the US.
usa  from instapaper
november 2011
A Lie Detector Test for Online Reviewers
"A man in Chittagong, Bangladesh...agreed to do 200 fake write-ups for $100. Within days, rave reviews for the company started popping up online."
social.media  yelp  tech  reviews  from instapaper
november 2011
Birth of Virgin Atlantic
"The airport terminal was full of stranded passengers. I made a few calls to charter companies and agreed to charter a plane for $2000 to Puerto Rico."
aviation  transportation  richard.branson  virgin  from instapaper
november 2011
Bill Would Give U.S. Visas to Foreign Home Buyers
"Two Senators are preparing to introduce a bipartisan bill Thursday that would give residence visas to foreigners who spend at least $500,000 to buy houses in the U.S."
housing  politics  economy  stimulus  from instapaper
november 2011
Entrepreneurs Who Go It Alone
Marco Arment of Instapaper and Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard are featured as successful one-man tech start-ups.
pinboard  instapaper  marco.arment  maciej.ceglowski  tech  entrepreneuers  from instapaper
november 2011
What's the Plural of Texas?
"When Texas joined the Union in 1845, voluntarily giving up its independence, it was granted the right by Congress to form 'new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number and in addition to the said State of Texas.'"
texas  politics  history  statehood  from instapaper
november 2011
With great power comes boorish behavior
"At last year's company Halloween party, the employees of the law firm of Steven J. Baum dressed up as homeless people who the firm had brought foreclosure proceedings against."
economy  housing  foreclosures  ows  halloween  from instapaper
november 2011
Senate GOP blocks Obama infrastructure plan
"Thursday's legislation would have provided an immediate $50 billion investment in roads, bridges, airports and transit systems."
economy  infrastructure  politics  gop  from instapaper
november 2011
Unable to pay bill, Mich. city turns off lights
"In late August, contractors from DTE Energy began rolling through the streets, taking out two-thirds of the light poles."
economy  infrastructure  politics  from instapaper
november 2011
As Foreclosures Surge, Help Is Often Hard to Find
"In Las Vegas, where the president made his announcement, about 30 counselors do foreclosure prevention in a city with 270,000 underwater properties. In Lakeland, Fla., it's one counselor for 59,000."
economy  housing  foreclosures  politics  from instapaper
november 2011
An Oil Company Buys Out an Entire ZIP Code
"It’s a responsible move, but it’s also a little odd. The company is essentially saying what few industries or companies will admit: 'I’m going to be a bad neighbor. I will make you sick. You should get out of here before I kill you.'"
energy  environment  oil  from instapaper
november 2011
Radiohead: Touring 2012
New Radiohead tour dates for 2012.
music  radiohead  tour  from instapaper
november 2011
11.11.11 event to help reclaim Cincinnati’s acoustically renowned Emery Theatre
"For more than a decade...the theatre has been largely empty. Now two young leaders hope to engage the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood and provide entertainment and educational opportunities at the Emery once again."
cincinnati  history  theatre  otr  from instapaper
november 2011
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