April 2011
36 posts
Quora: How would you programmatically parse a... →
jimray:
donohoe:
“Outline an algorithm that, given a sentence, returns true or false for whether a “that’s what she said” is appropriate.”
2 great answers so far…
The answers to this are pretty long and hard to get my head around…
I don’t even know where to start with this …
“The top three challenges listed by residents have changed significantly over...”
– Steve Brandt reports on the results of a Minneapolis resident survey. Apparently, we feel safe enough to bitch about education instead. That’s progress.
Open Streets Minneapolis →
adambez:
Open Streets Ciclovía Minneapolis Sunday, June 12th, 2011 10am - 2pm, Lyndale Ave S (on South Lyndale Avenue between 22nd St and 42nd St)
By opening up the streets for people to walk, bike, run and skate for a day, we get an opportunity to experience our city in a whole new way. In the past the street was the hub of the community—it was a place to shop, mingle, gossip, and play....
“I only made it two weeks on tour. I remember New Orleans because I got really...”
– Molly Ringwald in this week’s New York.
[New York mag, pitchfork]
(via the20s)
Sounds like Molly did New Orleans right.
getfitordie: Subway "wheat" bread has high... →
getfitordie:
While there are nine grains in Subway’s wheat bread, eight of them are scarce, as they appear on the ingredient listing under the “contains 2% or less” notice. The most plentiful ingredient in this sub bread is white flour…the kind you should avoid!
More plentiful than any one of the whole grains…
Why eat unhealthy when you can eat misleading healthy?
“Perfect. Let’s map the properties so the people who go in and gut properties for...”
– Kassie Church, with an interesting point in the comments section on our story about vacant properties in Minneapolis.
Of course, any industrious copper thieves plugging “vacant properties in Minneapolis” into Google will find the city source file for this map first. It’s public data.
(via...
“There was a neighbor outside grilling when I took the photos of 309 24th,...”
– Molotov cocktails on 24th Ave N? Life in Slumlordia.
“Prince was born in Minneapolis. When asked, he said, “I was born here,...”
– 1976 Central High School Newspaper Interview with Prince.
A Little About Seventh Street (In Case You...
the651ery:
Seventh Street is named so because, as of the 1849 city plat it was the seventh street up from the river. It is also one of the original fifteen streets named by the city. Today’s version of Seventh Street is actually Ninth Street, and if you are traveling east it runs into Eighth Street.
And for bonus points - the western portion it is co-named Fort Road (because it led to Fort...
“Highlights of our new policies: Bikes are now part of standard baggage! If...”
– Twitter / Frontier Airlines
Milwaukee’s Frontier Airlines will allow bicycles to be transported for a mere $20 checked. Other carriers, by comparison, charge upwards of $125.
I hope the policy sticks around long enough for the next time I buy tickets.
(via littletinyfish) I’m taking this as...
“When I was in Cairo during the Egyptian uprising, I wanted to change hotels one...”
– This may be the most Tom Friedman lede in the history of Tom Friedman ledes. (via cajunboy)
I have no doubt that Friedman has more Marriott Rewards points than Bill Kristol.
Watchmidtownmpls:
This Thursday at the Trylon: PlanEAT, Do Something Reel Film Festival
Thu Apr 14 9:00 (2010, Shelley Lee Davies, Or Shlomi, DVD, 78m) This visually stunning film tells the story of the scientists, farmers and chefs tackling one of the greatest problems of our age: Western culture’s love affair with meat and dairy. Through an extraordinary personal and mouth-watering culinary...
“He and his wife bought the split-level home of their dreams on a new cul-de-sac...”
– Help me figure this out. It seems like this guy must spend around $10,000/year to keep his car on the road. Do jobs at Rainbow Foods pay that much better than similar jobs closer to Isanti? Or, that $10k/yr could have been used toward a $300k home in Minneapolis, saving 500 hours of windshield time...
“…the costs of the Iraq war alone could have kept every foreclosed family in...”
– Paul Craig Roberts (via azspot)
At this point, I can’t see how anyone can be shocked or outraged by any information like this. Revolutions in societies have occurred throughout human history because institutions become more important than people. The problem is that those revolutions create new...
Online dating maps reveal kinkiest and loneliest... →
cajunboy:
today:
Most lonely women: Ohio 18th (Eastern Ohio, Rural)
Most lonely men: Georgia 9th (NW Georgia, Rural)
Least lonely women: Illinois 2nd (Cook County Chicago Suburbs)
Least lonely men: California 33rd (Los Angeles)
Most happy women and men: Washington’s 7th (Seattle)
Least happy women: New York’s 16th (Bronx)
Least happy men: Nebraska 3rd (Central and Western Nebraska)
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“In a CNN poll of American adults released Friday, the median guess on what...”
– Poll: Americans Wrongly Estimate $178 Billion In Fed. Budget Goes To Public Broadcasting
5% think CPB gets ONE HALF of the entire federal budget.
Put differently, 5% think NPR and Elmo get more in one year than what we’ve spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars since 2001.
(via thememegeneration)
What happened to Uma Thurman's career? →
jsenum:
“Maybe Uma Thurman should finally take David Letterman up on his 1995 offer to meet Oprah Winfrey — at this point, considering her latest film’s box-office numbers, it couldn’t hurt. ‘Motherhood’ opened this past weekend in the UK and made around $130 at the box office. Now, to be clear about a couple of things: That wasn’t a typo where we forgot to add the word “million” at the end...
