I’m always blabbing on my “lecture circuit” about how I feel like I live in a small neighborhood in Chicago, even though I’m in a small midwestern town of 35,000. Turns out I was right and now I have proof, thanks to Walk Score. You put in your home address and it gives you a [...]
I was just taking my daily stroll through my RSS reader and came across far too many interesting articles to write blog posts about all of them. Here are two of them:
Indiana’s Property Tax Fiasco: From the always-interesting Tax Foundation’s blog, a perspective on some Hoosier’s attempt to eliminate property tax. Their point at the [...]
If you like to work in a dynamic, fast-paced, startup environment where people believe in designing great software, focusing on what the user actually wants, accounting for all costs (environmental, social, and otherwise), and being a part of the community (local and otherwise), today may be your lucky day.
I just posted two job openings on [...]
David, one of the RedPost Software Designers, ran into this on his bike:
You may not have heard of the International Basketball League:
The International Basketball League is a third year basketball league featuring two rules that reduce dead time: 1) one timeout per quarter 2) [...]
From the South Bend Tribune:
WASHINGTON (AP)  The House voted Wednesday to urge Indiana to reconsider its approval of a permit allowing an expanded BP Amoco refinery to dump more pollutants into Lake Michigan.
The resolution passed 387-26 on a roll call vote.
“This Congress will not simply stand by while our Great Lakes are treated like [...]
The next version of the Kit, now called Beta2 (which is funny because there was no Beta1), will incorporate at least the following:
hardware: the option for an external USB port, on either the back, top, or bottom of the case
hardware: a table mounting bracket kit to secure your Kit vertically on a tabletop
software: built-in Flickr [...]
From SlashGear:
Remember that cool digital photo frame kit that I showed you last month? Well, I just had one show up on my doorstep today. It’s a hefty box, and the kit is full of goodies. The enclosure feels solid, though I really wouldn’t want to drop it on my toe.
We don’t want him to [...]
This is the front entrance to RedPost World Headquarters 2.0. You’ll note several new additions:
A new sign! Now UPS/FedEx/DHL and anyone else trying to find RedPost won’t complain that we don’t exist.
Some bags of Haydite, manufactured in Indiana by the Hydraulic Brick Press Company — they’re for our green roof prototype, which is also pictured [...]
We watch just over 8 hrs per household per day. Sheez, and I thought TV was dying a slow painful death. Turkey’s the next closest at 5 hrs/day, with Italy next at 4. Source: The Economist by way of Treehugger