I have to admit, it kind of bothers me that the M8 railcars are not built in the USA, but I have to hand it to the Japanese, they make damn good trains (note to Japan: please send the ‘bullet’ ones next time).
I stumbled across these pictures of the Kawasaki factory in Japan where the [...]

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Wired has a photographic gallery of the world’s ‘most impressive’ subways. NYC makes the list for scale and 24/7 availability.
Out of the list, I have ridden the NYC, Paris Metro, and London Underground. The Paris Metro is my favorite, because every time you step out of the subway onto the street, all you can think [...]

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One major advantages of the rise in gas prices you have probably heard about is the increase in use of mass transit. One of the biggest winners in this game are bus lines, which have seen their first increase in ridership in 50 years!
As this transportation market re-emerges from its slumber, new businesses are [...]

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(note: multiple B2’s take off in this video, the one that crashes takes off around 1:40 into the video)
B2 Stealth Bomber Crashes - Watch more free videos
Now that the cost of the Iraq war has reached well over half TRILLION dollars, its nice to know that our tax dollars can still go up in smoke [...]

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As I mentioned in a previous post, Firefox 3 is being released today, so I figured it was a good day to share my favorites Firefox add-ons with you.
1. Google Toolbar
(Google Toolbar is downloaded and installed from Google.)
Although you can search Google from the Firefox search box or even address bar, I have gotten used [...]

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The Firefox 3 Web Browser is being released today at 1PM, and I encourage you to download it - especially if you haven’t tried Firefox before.
I have been using Firefox 3 Release Candidates 2 and 3, and the performance is substantially better than Firefox 2 in terms of rendering and javascript execution. I also really [...]

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This weekend my best friend Bob was in town, and we were sitting around brainstorming business ideas. We tossed around the idea of building a development in a sunny place which generated its own electricity off-the-grid.
Currently, a single home off-the-grid is so difficult to pull off that examples are rare and impractical. Folks living [...]

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