Interesting Links for 23-06-2014

[andrewducker]

• Labour needs to be candid about the painful cuts it will have to make
  (tags: politics economics UK Labour )
• Women impressed by men who condemn their taste in music
  (tags: funny music relationships viajohnbobshaun )
• RunPee - Because movie theaters don't have pause buttons.
  (tags: movies urination )
• Eigenmorality
  (tags: morality philosophy google )

Comments

[quirkytizzy]

OMG THAT SEX TOY ONE IS AMAZING! AHAHAHHA!!!! People are creative!

Also, my brain is not processing the big words in the rational article, but I've generally found the more rational a person says they are, the less rational and more EMOTIONAL (and less emotionally AWARE) they are.

I wonder if people just peg themselves as "rational" and then decide intuiting and analyzing where their emotions are coming from and what to do with them isn't something they need to do, because they are so "rational".

(And to admit my own bias, I've also met too many dudes who consider themselves Rational and use it as an excuse to be condescending all the while throwing emotional tantrums that they can't track back to the original source of distress - whatever got them emotional.)

[bart_calendar]

If someone says they are rational they are batshit insane. I assume, in general, that they have multiple personality disorder, vote for fascist political candidates and love both Coldplay and Nickelback.

[quirkytizzy]

LOL!

[bart_calendar]

Or else they are axl rose. He did an interview about 10 years ago claiming to be the most rational man in rock.

[steer]

Worth pointing out that the bike lane design is interesting and looks like it would be safer (of course that is the sort of thing that you really do need to test -- for example does the additional street furniture make the bikes harder to see). However, the significant downside is that it has taken out an entire lane of car traffic. That is going to take around about 1000 vehicles per hour reduced capacity for each arm of the junction. At that point you're going to have hugely increased congestion (and hence pollution) at every junction where you implement it

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. Much more suitable for nice, new, wide roads. Not so suitable for winding backstreets.

[steer]

Yes... if you're designing from scratch, you have a fairly clean slate and relatively wide streets but you need to have cars and bikes intermixed then this looks a very good choice. (Caveats about proper testing of course).

[fanf]

It's worth looking at David Hembrow's discussion of cycle-friendly junction design in the Netherlands, which covers this particular design: http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2014/02/the-myth-of-standard-dutch-junction.html

Another good article by Mark Wagenbuur http://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/junction-design-in-the-netherlands/ explains that the islands are not an important design feature: they are a consequence of having set-back cycle and pedestrian crossings with space for a car between the crossings and the main part of the junction, putting the advance stop line for cyclists past this set-back, and providing space between the cycle lane and the road for wheelchairs or pushchairs to wait.

[simont]

A Sound You Can't Unhear (And What It Says About Your Brain)

I LOLed at the 'World Cup logo is facepalming' interpretation. And then I thought, presumably it's only the need to be SFW / SFchildren that prevented them mentioning the analogous but far more striking feature of the 2012 Olympics logo in the same breath :-)

[steepholm]

I've never been able to look at Lisa Simpson the same way since.

[ice_hesitant]

The bike lane thing assumes the street is eight lanes wide to start with (4 for motor vehicles, 2 for parked motor vehicles, 2 for bicycles). That might fit on Toronto's suburban arterials, but the design is not easily applicable for Toronto's core where the streets are half as wide at most.

[fanf]

Remember this is just an example showing how to apply Dutch-style design principles. It isn't supposed to be a one-size-fits-all solution. There are a number of elements that can be re-arranged or removed to fit in a more restricted space: for instance, you can stop the parking lane further from the junction to make more room for traffic to wait at the lights and/or remove the separate left turn lane, etc. See links in my other comment above.

[quirkytizzy]

Truth to all points. I think people put too much stock in being intelligent. Being willing to LEARN is way more important - and that has little to do with how intelligent you are.

And OMG YES to the last paragraph. So much that. THAT THING EXACTLY. In fact, I've never put that together, how it can't be cuz of God, so it's because they are extra sensible. BOOM.