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While demand is sinking, costs for tuk-tuk drivers continue. Sambath has recently invested in a new tuk-tuk and motor, that cost him close to $2,000. Drivers are also required to pay the government $5 annually to renew their operating licences.According to Sambath, living expenses in Siem Reap have risen, especially in the areas of housing and food, making it more difficult for the working class to make ends meet. He said more than a third of drivers' salaries go to room rentals, as most of them come from villages in search of better job opportunities in Siem Reap.

In contrast to mash terracing, which attempts to passively aggregate land by building up strategically arranged earth forms that require significant time, specialized labor, earth movers,  raw building material, and  money to create their foundation, the floating island technique (should it prove successful in the dynamic Mississippi Delta) literally builds from the top down, using a more passive biotic process of roots grafting themselves into the receding aqueous ground, thereby creating a vertical mesh that builds upon itself. The islands themselves can be assembled and put in place in a single day with improvised ‘off the shelf’ materials, making them incredibly close to open-source, do-it-yourself  land reclamation within the eccentric industrial legacies of the delta. 

Gestures, to me, are the touchscreen equivalent of keyboard shortcuts: a convenient alternative, but almost never a good choice for the primary interface for a task. So, sure, it’d be nice if you could flick pages to the top of the screen to close them in Mobile Safari, but keep the red close button there too.

The key to iOS’s success is that you can figure almost everything out just by looking at it.

Il vaut mieux être capable de lire ça que d'être aveugle. En tout cas je ne sais pas où il vit, mais il n'a apparemment jamais vu les milliers de personnes essayant débilement tous les gestes possibles parce que justement, ils ne voyaient pas comment faire autrement avec leur périphérique iOS.

Soft-Maps are quilted maps of cities and neighborhoods that represent someone's unique place in the world, and are tactile keepsakes meant to last generations. Wrap your children in them, have a picnic, pull them close during the next Nor'easter. 

some Japanese women opt for a close shave.

Inspired by American portrait painter Chuck Close, this script converts an image into a pixelated version using an HTML5 canvas element. It's basically a simple demo for canvas' imageData functionality.

His research—consistent with similar studies—found that about one in four restaurants close or change ownership within their first year of business. Over three years, that number rises to three in five.

walking around

the Yamanote, the ultra-busy circular train line often thought of as the heart (or more appropriately,

the crown) of the city, and taking pictures of the areas between the stations, when

the common images were too often close to the stations.

29 stations. Over 100 kilometers

paced out between March and December 2003,

always staying within 100 meters of the train line.