Transit Oriented Vacations (Part 2)
First, I didn’t like biking “long” distances (full disclosure: my partner does not feel the same way about distance!). For me at least, TOV was going to be very different from the hardcore “bike backpacking” way of touring, where 50 to 100 miles is the norm. In fact on ...
Transit Oriented Vacations (Part 1)
There’s a place just outside of San Francisco where breakers crash against fog-covered cliffs, framed by pristine green hillsides and deer that show no fear of humans. I’ve lived in the Bay Area for ten years but only found this place when I got sick of driving to ...
Exhibitionist Source
I think exhibitionist source should be a thing. I’ve seen too many projects which were claimed to be open source but which only gave the source code to clients when they asked (and even then, only with extensive prodding), or that develop in private and push releases to github ...
Datawashing
The world has adopted the use of the term greenwashing to mean “green marketing [that] is deceptively used to promote the perception that an organization’s products, aims or policies are environmentally friendly.” The term can be traced all the way back to 1986 when Jay Westervelt wrote an essay ...