On Saturday morning, I was roused from slumber before 7:00 AM by the unnerving machine gun style alarm calls of the Bulbuls (of which there are now four free-flying in my living room). I stumbled off of the sofa, peered out of the window, and looked for a cat. I did not see one, … | Continue reading
Just finished up hacking on my submission for the Wufoo API contest. VoiceForms 4000 takes any existing Wufoo form and turns it into a phone survey. The app is written in Python, runs on App Engine, and uses Twilio for all the phone magic. https://voiceforms4000.appspot.com/ Go a … | Continue reading
Duncan Conjecture that the original Big Bang black hole had a high speed evaporation phase via quantum tunnelling of a postulated high energy escape particle. | Continue reading
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I read this article in the Chronicle about a month ago, and its been festering in the back of my mind since then. I didn’t want to let it pass without mentioning it on my blog. Essentially- if you haven’t … Continue reading → | Continue reading
I’ve settled down with my honey in the Santa Cruz Mountains now, and helped to start the Scotts Valley Neighbors Against Smart Meters (SVNASM). We are a resident-led local organization fighting PG&E’s plans to force inaccurate, potentially health damaging meters … Continue readin … | Continue reading
The other day, my mom’s neighbor saw me arriving by bike from Marin County (about 60 miles away), and told me how impressed she was with the ‘sacrifice’ I was making by not driving. I thanked her, and said that … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Last week, we had a couple of victories as the cities of Scotts Valley and Capitola responded to growing public pressure, demanding that PG&E halt any further ‘smart’ meter installation until public hearings are held and investigations are completed. This … Continue reading → | Continue reading
PG&E wants to rush ‘smart’ meters onto people’s homes before we realize they can cause cancer After California’s utility PG&E was firmly smacked down with the defeat of Prop. 16 last month- an attempt by the corporate behemoth to extend … Continue reading → | Continue reading
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In 2006 we got rid of our gas guzzlers, and it was clear that we could do a lot more through our business. We have now made a breakthrough in quick calculation of environmental impacts down to the individual products that are purchased, which make is easy for us to measure the im … | Continue reading
Our Arco protests received national coverage in the New York Times today. Apart from being overly conciliatory to the station owner, who is really an aggressive and dangerous man, unfair in its portrayal of protesters shouting ‘where’s your bike?’ as … Continue reading → | Continue reading
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I was on KPFA’s Terra Verde show hosted by Adam Greenfield last Friday. talking about surface travel, the Arco/BP protests, and what regular people can do in the face of environmental collapse. Listen here: http://kpfa.org/archive/id/62134 If anyone finds out what … Continue read … | Continue reading
By the way, I’m wearing the facemask and keffiyah to protect against all that pollution on Fell St.– any resemblance to an anarchist is purely coincidental. | Continue reading
Go directly to the ENAT European Accessible Cities list Create your own Accessible City profile page (For ENAT members only - please make sure you are logged in). Read about the European Access City Award 2018 Deadline for applications was on 11th September 2017. Introduction E … | Continue reading
I was forwarded this event announcement from a mystery source- apparently this happens on Saturday: Hands Across the Road: Real Solutions to Oil Dependence On June 26th, millions of well meaning, but misled people will drive their Toyota Priuses to … Continue reading → | Continue reading
This shot delivered me from some of the May Gray/June Gloom doldrums. Lesser Goldfinches (Carduelis psaltria) at Balboa Park, 22 May 2010 (spotted when I went to see the “All that Glitters” exhibit) | Continue reading
Donald Appleyard always used to say that the measure of a livable street was if a cat could lie out in the middle of the road. Chances are it was a good habitat for humans as well. When Andrew Lloyd … Continue reading → | Continue reading
From the UK Guardian: “The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how … Continue reading → | Continue reading
[Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zIxlsDZOmM] We will return to the Arco station every week to peacefully block the Fell St. entrances until BP plugs the holes in the Gulf and until the City plugs the dangerous driveways on Fell and makes it safe for … Continue reading → | Continue reading
I am truly speechless. It turns out that Janel Sterbentz, one of the organizers of last Friday’s protest at the Fell/ Divisadero Arco station, and whose “Women who Ride” interview for the Bike NOPA blog was suppressed because she said … Continue reading → | Continue reading
What an incredible, inspiring protest yesterday in San Francisco. Truly in awe at the raw energy from the neighborhood residents who have clearly had enough of this dangerous and awful situation that the city has failed to correct- where cars … Continue reading → | Continue reading
With all the terrible news coming out of the Gulf and the distressing dysfunctionality with which humans are relating to other species on the planet, here is a nice respite. I was on Caltrain yesterday travelling with my bicycle from … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Bart Vander Sanden Freelance app and web developer in Leuven, Belgium Home Web Development Photography Blog English Nederlands Home › Blog › Going down the stairs Going down the stairs Posted on 09 June 2010. About me Hi, I'm Bart, a freelance web developer based in Leuven, Belgi … | Continue reading
jQueried is a Safari 5 extension in the same vein as the jQuerify bookmarklet. jQueried adds jQuery to the current webpage, a task which can be very useful for debugging. After finishing my first extension, simple as it is, I am impressed with the simplicity of Safari's extension … | Continue reading
This is a protest I’m helping to organize with some friends. If you are in the Bay Area, come join us this Friday. And SPREAD THE WORD. Link to Facebook page here. TOP KILL: PARTY TO SHUT DOWN BP/ ARCO … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Milton Glaser's 1966 poster of a folk-rock icon captured the psychadelic dazzle of the flower-power era | Continue reading
While Bike NOPA declined to publish the following interview with Janel Sterbentz, on account of the fact that she dared to mention how unpleasant, stinky and dangerous cars are, On the Level is happy to publish Janel’s words. As you … Continue reading → | Continue reading
A friend of mine- Janel Sterbentz- recently volunteered to be featured on the San Francisco based Bike NOPA blog in their “Women who Bike” series. She submitted her responses to the questions, but the editor of Bike NOPA, Michael Helquist … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Almost a year and a half after I posted it, Sustrans has still not publicly or privately responded to my article, The Problem with Sustrans: How a Grassroots Phenomenon Has Turned into a Private, Unaccountable Corporation. The piece generated thousands … Continue reading → | Continue reading
From time to time, it's good to raise your head over the rim of your cubicle and take a look around. In a daring attempt to fulfill my desire for an overdue escape from day-to-day work, I ventured to Frankfurt and this year's ADC Summit Expo with projekt-pr's Rüdiger Hahn and Ank … | Continue reading
It seems unfair that the first Jonathan Kellerman book I review should be Evidence, as I am a huge fan of Kellerman’s Alex Delaware series and this is not one of his best. I have been reading his books since I was a teenager, which goes to show you how long they have been around. … | Continue reading
So a few weeks ago Chevron- one of the biggest oil companies in the world- took the plunge and set up shop on Facebook, spinning yarns about its corporate social responsibility and how it is helping the world in so … Continue reading → | Continue reading
If you’re using the placeholder attribute in a form input element, and want to change how the placeholder text looks using CSS, use the -webkit-input-placeholder pseudo-element, like so: ::-webkit-input-placeholder { … } The placeholder attribute works in the latest Firefox … | Continue reading
Despite not having posted here for almost two years now, I’m not dead yet…It’s been a year now, I joined Terracotta to work on their Hibernate second level cache implementation. A lot as happened since: Terracotta acquired Ehcache and Quartz, which gave the transparency team I jo … | Continue reading
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An experimental font created with sugar cubes, dissolved with coffee, one of the most common ways to wake up these days. Filmed and reversed. Watch the clip on Youtube | Continue reading
After a week of confronting a rising tide of nauseating greenwash in the City, it’s nice to be back out in the wild. The life with whom we share the planet has a lot to say, if only we would … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Last week, we finally found a second apprentice at webfactory and completed our team lineup for 2010. Simon Mönch will be joining us from May 1st to learn the craft of software development and Jessica Lazarus starts her apprenticeship for digital media design on August 1st. Cheek … | Continue reading
Some small tests with NodeBox, an application to generate images by simple coding. It gives designers the opportunity to create complex visuals in mere seconds. | Continue reading
This video was recorded Wednesday evening April 14th at 111 Minna, San Francisco before any of the protests or disruptions at the carbon conference that ensued on Thursday or Friday. There is no doubt that there is massive denial about … Continue reading → | Continue reading
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