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High Tech in the Hub
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Cloud architectures can be rated based on 4 Dimensions of Scale. These dimensions represent the architectural flexibility that has been designed into a software system based on the needs and/or constraints of the business....
Boston Biker
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Via MassBike:
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This year is going to be HUGE for transportation funding. The governor recently announced that he is seeking to pump $1 billion more annually into the transportation system, and MassDOT intends...
Boston Biker
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via MassBike:
It looks like they are going to tackle some important issues, head over to their site and support them if you want them to keep working on these important issues.
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Last week, two bills...
Boston Biker
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19 art students walking around an auto show with imaginary bikes. I really liked this video, mostly because I think a lot about how automobiles are marketed to people, and how reality doesn’t match up very well with...
Blue Mass. Group
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If you spent any time on Twitter today, you might have noticed that “Bqhatevwr” has been the top trending hashtag for hours. And why is that?
Because at about 1 a.m. this morning, that’s what Scott Brown...
Blue Mass. Group
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Perhaps the most startling thing in this story: "Markey actually does worse than a generic Democrat." Why? Because nobody knows who the hell Markey is. And why is that? Well, this and this, for starters. Oh, and here's...
Blue Mass. Group
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Little known fact, which bears repeating: We in the northeast USA are under a cap-and-trade program right now — the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. It has put an ever-increasing price on carbon emission, and...
Blue Mass. Group
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From john-from-lowell:
Tuesday – January 29, 2013 at 7:00 PM
Lowell Volunteer Meeting for Ed Markey Senate Campaign
Pollard Memorial Library
RSVP: lowellformarkey@gmail.com
Maybe we are just more ‘proactive’ than most cities...
Suldog
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I "stole" this from Jenn Flynn-Shon, a wonderful writer and, more important, a swell person.
Since losing my previous job, I’ve been
doing no writing for this space other than tales of unemployment. I owe you more...
Massachusetts Liberal
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They say idle hands are the devil's tool. Special elections without candidates serve the same function for political writers.Need proof? Check out this paragraph stashed in the middle of a Globe story on Scott Brown's...
Hub Blog
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Celts lose six in a row. … Is it reaching, or has it already reached, total meltdown stage? There’s something profoundly wrong with the chemistry of this team. They're almost as bad as the Sox were the past two seasons. Well...
Off On A Tangent
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ITU approves new H.265 video format:A new video coding standard building on the PrimeTime Emmy award winning ITU-T H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC was agreed by ITU members today.
The new codec will considerably ease the burden on...
Off On A Tangent
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As He Likes It:In the latest Ryan McGinley film, the new Mercedes-Benz CLA is showcased in all its headstrong splendour alongside top model Karlie Kloss in Chloé and under the creative direction of Jefferson Hack.
When...
Boston Biker
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The bicycle barometer takes data about the weather, the status of the tube lines I use to get to work, and whether my local station is open or shut.
It then reduces all that data down to a single value and displays...
HubArts.com
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In the last few weeks the news from northern and western Africa brings fresh conflicts. But Homeland Security means something different at Berklee College of Music on Monday night, where students from Africa will present a...
The Beantown Bloggery
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Getting my Dunkin Donuts fix while in Seoul.
HubArts.com
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As a juvenile film fanatic, I was given copies of "Truffaut/Hitchcock" and "Stanley Kubrick Directs" one Christmas or birthday in the early '70s, back in the days when you could see all their films...
Hub Blog
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Gotta love it: Hillary is just throwing it back at Republicans over Benghazi. She was definitely a little too flippant in her answer. But her frustration is justified. This is a classic group-think/echo-chamber issue among...
Hub Blog
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The Celts have now lost four straight. The Avery Bradley bounce is most definitely over. … I was kind of counting on the Celts, post-Pats debacle, to carry me through the winter. Not going to happen. Oh, well. I can...
Hub Blog
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A week or so ago, Hub Blog and a Notre Dame grad exchanged brief text messages about the Manti Te’o falling-in-cyber-love hoax/non-hoax controversy. Initially, I was a little sympathetic toward Te’o, figuring that he was...
The Beantown Bloggery
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I averaged 1 meal a day while in Hawaii cause I was out scuba diving most of the time. This is what's called loco moco. It's delicious in a "I'm going to need an angioplasty afterwards" kinda way.
Hub Blog
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Reader No. 1 on the Pats devastating loss yesterday to the Ravens:For the masochists among us, here's Football Outsiders' realtime digest of yesterday's debacle. And just to top it off, the detailed box score at ESPN,...
