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In the battle for street safety, crossing guards are on the front lines.Tasked with ensuring that hundreds of children make it from one sidewalk to another unscathed every day, they experience our streets, their users, and those users' habits more intimately than any engineer, officer or elected official ever could. The verdict: The streets, even the ones hugging our schools, are unsafe.Despite being sheathed in reflective gear and stationed in …

Simon’s sizing advice (winter) Friday, November 22nd 2024Tags: CoatsPermanent style Share Share this post Subscribe 22 Comments ||- Begin Content -|| Every six months, I forget what it’s like to run the pop-up shops. They’re only four days each (London and New York) but they’re so intense, just talking to people non-stop for eight hours, giving advice and fetching sizes. I don’t know how salespeople do it. I also find …

looking down a typical residential street in the suburbs of london. i love taking pictures like this because the people are out of frame but close by. they form a community, whether by geography, race, class, or some other means of solidarity. plus there are sometimes cute cats in the window. I’ve been thinking about how trust functions in society. Working with community as a nonprofit is often an exercise …

WowHaus 1960s modernist railway signal box in Berlin, Germany 1960s modernist railway signal box in Berlin, Germany (image credit: Berlin First) Something very different on the market via one of our readers. This 1960s modernist railway signal box in Berlin, Germany. (image credit: Berlin First) I love this kind of industrial renovation project and have featured a UK signal box in the past. But it doesn’t quite look like this …

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Yesterday I went to the Barons Court Theatre and saw Jean-Luc Lagarce’s I Was in the House and I Was Waiting for the Rain to Come, which is staged as part of this venue’s ambitious Voila! Theatre Festival, an annual event featuring multidisciplinary, multilingual and multicultural performance celebrating both British and European creatives. Although Lagarce is unknown in this country, he is a big name in France with many productions …

Local filmmaker Matt Ognibene has a new video on the Charlie Card Challenge – an unsanctioned 6-mile road race against the Green Line along the length of the B branch, from Boston College to downtown’s Park Street station. The Charlie Card Challenge was a bigger challenge this year thanks to the T’s year-long track improvement program, which eliminated 10 slow zones along the B branch since last fall. We won’t …

The Architects’ Journal Bell Phillips, SimpsonHaugh and Hawkins\Brown get go-ahead for Manchester homes Three schemes in Manchester by Hawkins\Brown, SimpsonHaugh and Bell Phillips with 5 Plus, which together will deliver 1,500 new homes, have been approved by the city council The post Bell Phillips, SimpsonHaugh and Hawkins\Brown get go-ahead for Manchester homes appeared first on The Architects’ Journal Gino Spocchia

It’s weird to me that after I urged everyone not to disable form controls, a bunch of them decided that making them read-only was somehow better. But here we are. What’s in the box? Photo by Michael Heiss, no edits, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. HTML The readonly attribute is only allowed on text fields (<input> and <textarea>). The WHATWG HTML specification for devs argues that making other controls (buttons, checkboxen) read-only …

In martial arts and other combat sports, the importance of rules has a deep-rooted ethical and philosophical foundation directly proportional to the violence of the sport itself. The stronger the athlete can hit, the more solid and respectable his figure appears in relation to the control he has, using force only if, and when, it is appropriate. When you fight you don’t just have an enemy in front of you, …

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I’ve been down in an audio plugin rabbit hole lately. More on that in a later blog post. But I just stumbled upon a set of free plugins that might be of interest to you, if you are doing voice recordings of any kind – be it a podcast, voice over, or, let’s say, video tutorials. There are, of course, many more free plugins for that use case. Again, I …

A poster promoting 'The Thief of Bagdad' (1924).Is Thanksgiving is all about giving thanks for abundance?If so, I can't think of a better silent film to prepare one for the upcoming holiday than 'The Thief of Bagdad' (1924), an epic adventure/fantasy starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr.I'll accompany a 100th anniversary screening of 'Thief' on Tuesday, Nov. 26 (two days prior to Turkey Day) at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline, Mass.More …

One of the (many) problems with old age is that things that were once considered an annoyance, eventually become big enough problems that they need to be fixed. Such a malady has finally caught up with me. For years I boasted that I have never had surgery. I reached the age of 66 back in […]