Month: January 2011

a new study from North Carolina State University says that superstreets are actually more efficient than traditional intersections. The researchers collected data from three superstreets in North Carolina that had traffic lights and looked at travel time for both right and left turns as well as passing straight through. They also examined collision data from 13 superstreet intersections in that state that didn’t have traffic lights.

Life Without Left Turns | Surprising Science

But what about me? When did I turn into a human breaking-news outlet who has to keep up with the second-by-second details of a story and then add my own updates and analysis to the realtime mix? How can thousands of my fellow human news machines have served up 140 character analyses before law enforement officials on the ground even had a chance to put together a preliminary outline of what exactly happened? Are you really sure you wanna go faster?

Tweetage Wasteland : Do You Wanna Go Faster?

Finally, our team did confirm that the volume buttons and mute slider are indeed in a slightly different spot on the Verizon iPhone than on the AT&T version. Foresman reported that the volume buttons were moved “about 2mm or less” on the Verizon version so that they no longer line up with the AT&T iPhone. New, slightly modified cases for one and all?

Pics of the new antenna, WiFi sharing prefs on Verizon iPhone

This seems like a silly change — are they going to have AT&T and Verizon sections for cases in the Apple store?