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Leo Laporte asks if Twitter et al is an immense waste of time
by Marshall Brain | August 23, 2010
Leo LaPorte recently discovered that posts, which he thought were flowing automatically to Twitter, never made it there. And apparently no one noticed. Apparently he was deriving no traffic from Twitter, so there was no traffic effect. None of his fans seemed to notice either. Here is his account…
Whether you’ve been stuck in a traffic jam or forced to merge and avoid road construction, everyone’s had a few bad experiences with traffic. But how does traffic actually work? In this episode, Chuck and Josh take a look at traffic waves (and bubbles).
There has been a request that HSW bloggers add links at the bottom of their blog posts pointing to their Twitter and Facebook pages, so I am starting to do that today. I had to wait an appropriate period of time after Experiment #3 to let the burst from that experiment die down to steady state…
Here is a fascinating idea. Around the United States there are millions of acres of parking lots. Yet, as the following article points out, “Parking lots are probably the largest underutilized depository of real estate in the country.” Now there is a $10,000 contest looking for ideas that would utilize all that space more effectively…
We’re edging closer to 200 episodes of TechStuff. It’s hard to believe Chris and I have sat down at those microphones 200 times to bring you information on technologies ranging from particle accelerators to the cutting-edge technology in the year 1510. This week, we responded to listener requests for episodes focusing on traffic overlays on Google Maps and plasma torches.
Across the country, incandescent traffic lights are being replaced with LED arrays. Check out this podcast from HowStuffWorks to learn more about the advantages of LED traffic lights.
Laser speed guns shoot short bursts of laser-red infrared light to calculate the speed of a car. Learn more about laser speed guns in this HowStuffWorks podcast.
Red-light cameras use triggers, cameras, and a computer to monitor traffic violations. Learn more about red-light cameras in this HowStuffWorks podcast.
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