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The Peel P50 was never meant to burn rubber. First produced by Peel Engineering in 1962 on the Isle of Man, it was built to be a city commuter’s dream—made for ferrying “one adult and a shopping bag” through London’s congested streets. With Lilliputian dimensions (54 x 41 x 48 inches) and a weight to match (130 pounds), the P50 makes a Smart car seem like a tank: The three-wheeled, 4.2-horsepower ride topped out at 43 mph.

Most notable for its inclusion in the Kindel and other E-Readers, E-Paper has recently become very popular. But until very recently been out of reach to being used in personal projects. Luckily for us, SparkFun started selling and E-Paper display, and breakout board finally bringing this great technology to a place where we can slap it on the back of our Arduinos.

Japan caught in slow. This is for my hometown.

Developers who can focus solely on Chrome can expect to be able to see some Harmony features in Chrome (behind a flag) by the middle of 2011. Developers focusing on all browsers will have to wait multiple years for direct Harmony support, due to the relatively slow pace of the standardization process.

It is pure-python, and therefore very, very slow. The purpose is to

provide a reference implementation of a miner, for study.

That is the most dangerous fight. When you fight for something you truly believe will save you when in fact it cannot, you divert resources from addressing the real issues. This is a typical case of focusing the attention on a perceived external threat because addressing the internal (and structural problems) is more complicated and seems like less of a silver bullet.

The Hermit Kingdom allowed international media to watch its largest ever military parade - part of the campaign to establish Kim Jong-il's youngest son as the leader-in-waiting.

Modern infrastructures are extra large. They facilitate the connection between major urban nodes and allow cities to expand. They are designed to maintain the large and their existence signals the dissolution of the small. They cross the deep valleys, bypass the difficult roads and shortcut the peaks; thus dissolve the small, distant and hard to reach nodes and communities.

Slow is the new fast

Airships hold a particular place in the common imagination, conjuring images of romance, luxury and exploration whilst travelling.

After the iPad came out there have been all sorts of predictions of the imminent demise of the dedicated e-reader. My look at current technology suggests that, at least for the next few years, the best reading experience will be delivered by simple, cheap, dedicated reading devices, and the business models for ebook sellers will likely center around content and forms of interaction that work well on slow, black and white displays.

Le problème de ces prédictions, c'est qu'elles n'étaient pas faites par des gens qui lisent.