A living street is a street in which, unlike in most 20th century streets the needs of car drivers are secondary to the needs of users of the street as a whole. It is a space designed to be shared by pedestrians, playing children, bicyclists, and low-speed motor vehicles. This contrasts with the shared space scheme philosophy which gives all road users equal priority in community spaces.

Traffic calming is the slowing or reduction of motor-vehicle traffic to improve safety for pedestrians and bicyclists and improve the environment for residents. Urban planners and traffic engineers have many strategies for traffic calming. Such measures are common in Australia and Europe (especially Northern Europe), but less so in North America.

Following up on our earlier hands-on sneak peak of Onitsuka Tiger’s 60th anniversary magazine, Made of Japan, we can now share more details.

The limited edition magazine, of which 250 boxed editions are available, highlights Onitsuka Tiger’s original sports heritage, vision and evolution, along with its influence as a style icon amongst fashion leaders, athletes and sports fans in Japan, the US and Europe. In Japan, turning 60 is an honor and a time of great celebration and reflection; a time to look back at one’s achievements and plan for the future.

Fusing Japanese heritage with a modern, metropolitan soul, Made of Japan embraces heroes of the past while uncovering tomorrow’s talents and showcases the ever-growing interaction between Japan and the West.

Made of Japan features more than 30 iconic personalities, including artist, Chiharu Shiota, Verbal of the Teriyaki Boyz and former star athletes Dave Cowens and Lasse Virén.

He has tossed out 46 of the 102 foreclosure motions that have come before him in the last two years. And his decisions, have attracted the respectful attention of judges and lawyers from Florida to Ohio to California. At recent judicial conferences in Chicago and Arizona, several panelists praised his rulings as a possible national model.

Justice Schack, like a handful of state and federal judges, has taken a magnifying glass to the mortgage industry. In the gilded haste of the past decade, bankers handed out millions of mortgages — with terms good, bad and exotically ugly — then repackaged those loans for sale to investors from Connecticut to Singapore. Sloppiness reigned. So many papers have been lost, signatures misplaced and documents dated inaccurately that it is often not clear which bank owns the mortgage.

Justice Schack’s take is straightforward, and sends a tremor through some bank suites: If a bank cannot prove ownership, it cannot foreclose.

The truth is that a lot of people complain about craigslist. Buckmaster is correct that few of them complain about the design. They complain about spam, they complain about fraud, they complain about the posting rules, they complain about the search, they complain about uploading images. They complain about every way a classified transaction can go wrong. They seldom complain about amazing new features they imagine they might possibly want to use, because they are too busy complaining about the simple features they depend on that don't work as well as they'd like. By eliminating marketing, sales, and business development, craigslist's programmers have cut out all the cushioning layers that separate them from the users they serve, and any right they have to teach lessons in public service comes from the odd situation of running a company that is directly subservient only to the public. Here's the lesson: The public is a motherfucker.

The Prius hybrid automobile is popular for its fuel efficiency, but its electric motor and battery guzzle rare earth metals, a little-known class of elements found in a wide range of gadgets and consumer goods.

That makes Toyota's market-leading gasoline-electric hybrid car and other similar vehicles vulnerable to a supply crunch predicted by experts as China, the world's dominant rare earths producer, limits exports while global demand swells.

why graphs are important!

Anscombe's quartet comprises four datasets that have identical simple statistical properties, yet are revealed to be very different when inspected graphically. Each dataset consists of eleven (x,y) points. They were constructed in 1973 by the statistician F.J. Anscombe to demonstrate the importance of graphing data before analyzing it, and of the effect of outliers on the statistical properties of a dataset.

Starting this fall, you’ll have a new reason to trust the information you find on Wikipedia: An optional feature called “WikiTrust” will color code every word of the encyclopedia based on the reliability of its author and the length of time it has persisted on the page.

As a result, 18,000 US cit­i­zens die every year need­lessly, because they can’t access the care they require. That’s equiv­a­lent to six 9/11s, every year, year on year. Yet the Repub­li­cans have accused the Democ­rats who are try­ing to stop all this death by extend­ing health­care of being “killers” — and they have suc­cess­fully man­aged to put them on the defensive.

This ten­dency to sim­ply deny incon­ve­nient facts and invent a fantasy-world isn’t new; it’s only becom­ing more height­ened.

How do they train them­selves to be so imper­vi­ous to real­ity? It begins, I sus­pect, with reli­gion. They are taught from a young age that it is good to have “faith” — which is, by def­i­n­i­tion, a belief with­out any evi­dence to back it up. You don’t have “faith” Aus­tralia exists, or fire burns: you have evi­dence.

According to a tipster, American Apparel's pervy madman CEO, Dov Charney, is demanding the firing of employees he deems unattractive and thus detrimental to the "AA aesthetic," as he feels they may be hurting his bottom line.

The Walt Disney Co. (DIS-N26.00-0.84-3.13%) said Monday it is buying Marvel Entertainment Inc. (MVL-N48.389.7325.17%) for $4-billion (U.S.) in cash and stock, bringing characters like Iron Man and Spider-Man into the family of Mickey Mouse and WALL-E.

SHOWHOW is Copenhagen Design Week’s sustainability and innovation showcase presenting new solutions for a well designed planet. In accordance with saving energy, minimizing waste and working with materials already in abundance, cardboard seems to be the choice du jour.

A favorite of ours is the ecochair, a bed and stool made of foldable cardboard, making its accordion structure a fair competitor to the futon. The exhibition architecture was designed by WEM3 and built of stacked boxes of recycled cardboard.

WITH pics of the swimming pool!

"Opening Soon / Opening Now" is the title of a year project Laurence Aëgerter is developing for RED A.I.R. Korsjespoortsteeg 23 was originally assigned to Aëgerter as a studio. She chose not to use the space as a studio however, but as a place to question her role as an artist in the city's political plans of gentrification in Amsterdam. To research the transitional character of the location, in between brothel and renovated house, she has applied 8 new public and semi-public functions to the space. Some of the episodes were private performances and installations.

As people get more flexible, food has to come after them. Mobile food concepts increase in popularity. Recently all sorts of flexible food concepts had a tasty show off in Amsterdam. The Vespa Ape espresso bar that pops up at every market, is most the recognisible form of this trend. In London you’ll find them just at the corner of the street, selling good coffee to take away. But there’s more: the pancake double decker bus, the pizza truck and the mobile food wall.

Marseille-born and Amsterdam-based artist Laurence Aëgerter is about to launch a new episode in her ‘Opening Soon/Opening Now’ series in Amsterdam. Currently she is busy turning a former brother in the so-called ‘Grey Area’ into a two-day public mini swimming pool. All ages are welcome to recreate in this unique swimming pool, under supervision of professional bath superintendents.

The unique pop-up swimming pool will be open on August 22 and 23 and is located on Korsjespoortsteeg 23. The pool at the ground floor is for recreation, instruction and competition. “Bring your swimsuit and towel and drop by for some aquarobic, maternity swimming or recreational swimming. Seperate changing rooms and lockers are available on the upper floors.” The instant pool will be open between 8 AM and 8 PM.

Brooklyn based designer Reiner Tiangco has created a different kind of poster that requires an unusual interaction in order for its message to be revealed. One side of the paper is coated with a messy substance that’s spread out over clear spot-varnished text during handling which transforms the postrer into a clear communication.

In City One Minutes life in each city is divided into 24 one minute portraits, each depicting one hour of the day. Every film is a personal impression of the city in which the artist lives or in which he is staying.Later on it will be possible to rate the films and also to create your ideal ‘dream city’ by combining minutes from different cities. Radio one minutes will also become available in the near future.