http://www.copenhagenize.com/2010/01/holding-on-to-cyclists-in-copenhagen.html
take a look at the link, there are a number of photos.
Copenhagen has implemented rails at traffic junctions to allow bicyclists to prop up their foot and hold on to a hand-rail. This, as any cyclist would know, is of great convenience when making a brief stop since you can avoid dismounting, which is slow, [...]
i guess France, being such a large country, has many different newspapers, but this classification taken from the Lonely Planet guide entertained me to no end:
Le Figaro – centre-right, aimed at professionals, businesspeople and the bourgeoisie
Le Monde – centre-left, popular with professionals and intellectuals
France Soir – right-wing, working and middle-class
Libération – left wing, popular with [...]
In a pair of landmark studies, two groups of scientists announced Tuesday that they have reprogrammed human skin cells to act like embryonic stem cells, whose potential to mature into any other kind of cell in the body may ultimately prove key to curing a number of diseases. CNN July 20
So the two independent groups [...]
I was reading StraitsTimes, and they had a small article on the sad tourists who arrive in Paris only to face the cold wind and dearth of public transport. [hey i like the word dearth] There were some people who were trying to get to Versailles. That’s impressive, coz Versailles is this huge palace that’s [...]
Link: Le Figaro
The strikes in France enter their 6th day, which is rather impressive. The commuters are getting extremely frustrated with the transport unions/workers. Therefore yesterday (Sunday) they held a strike of their own, to protest against the transport strikes. How cool is that. «le privé vache à lait du public, ça suffit, halte aux [...]
Here’s more information on the online DNA test that was in a previous post. I went to look up their website, the deCODE Diagnostic company.
Headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, deCODE is a biopharmaceutical company applying [...]
I thought it was all rather doubtful that McLaren would be able to snatch the F1 title away on the Fuel ruling anyway. F1 rulings have always been more for the interest of the sport than actually following rules. McLaren probably did it as revenge on Ferrari. LeMonde report [FR]
Norway constructs a Doomsday vault [BBC] [...]
Carrefour in Chongqing had a sale, and then people queued up from 4 am, and there was a stompede and 3 people were stomped to death. wow. to buy rapeseed oil for cooking
CNN report
I mean, well, it’s just supermarket discount, how much can you save???
at least if i end up in china i know of [...]