All states have certain vanity license plate strings you’re not allowed to register, but have you ever wondered what they are? Here is a huge list of every single banned plate in Wisconsin.
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Honda Si love & history lesson
The “Si” ( originally indicating “Sport injected”) is a trim of the Civic line from Honda. It’s Honda’s designation that the vehicle has upgraded performance characteristics compared to the other trims (LX, DX, EX, etc.). They often had different, more powerful…
Tagged with: aesthetics, cars, Civic, design, engineering, engines, Honda, technology
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build your own Dougal
I’ve had my entire genome sequenced. Here, you can download me as an 8MB ZIP file. I hereby release my source code into the public domain. Happy replicating! genome_Dougal_Walker_Full_20131219151330 You can also listen to it.
megacities are taking over
The book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization’s Northern Future by Laurence C. Smith, along with commentary from delanceyplace.com, explain how more people now live in cities than in rural areas, and speculates on our future as urban creatures… The…
how to set up a VPN with Asus RT-N16 and Mac OS X
Step by step how to set up a VPN with Asus NT-R16 and Mac OS X
Mac epoch?
While installing the Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) update, I noticed that the temporary file ( /Applications/Mac OS X Mavericks.appdownload ) created while the update “app” downloads has the creation date set to January 24th, 1984, the day of the initial Macintosh release.…
how to create an iPad video kiosk
I was recently tasked with building an iPad floor display that would loop a series of video clips indefinitely in a public place. Surprisingly, it’s not very obvious how to do this, and the third-party applications for looping video don’t…
movement of new yorkers over 24 hours
Visualization based on check-ins from Foursquare, a location-based social network.
Tagged with: cities, data, Foursquare, maps, New York, social media, technology, video
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