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5 rules for living in a New York City subway tunnel

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2008-10-25 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...subway tunnels Here's the article. Graphic Tale of Life in Subway Tunnels In the four years that Youme Landowne, a Brooklyn artist, has known Anthony Horton, a homeless man who used to spend most of his nights underground, in nooks and crannies wedged around subway tunnels, Ms. Landowne learned several basic rules for subterranean life. The...
 
Tags: subway, book details, book, subway tunnels, tunnels, childrens book, hoped pitch black, subway stations, pitch black
 
 
 
 
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UK: O2 launches coverage in Glasgow Subway

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2008-12-01 23:43:55 by Ben Robinson in IntoMobile
...Subway will be able to use their mobile phones underground for the first time To mark the launch of the underground network and to extend some Christmas spirit, a team of eight O2 Angels will give away 2,000 tickets for the Glasgow Subway as random acts of kindness at the five busiest Subway stations where mobile access will be available:...
 
Tags: subway, glasgow subway, glasgow, mobile network coincides, mobile network, network, subway rides, network menace, subway stations
 
 
 
 
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Lionel NYC MTA Subway train set with working lights, station announcements

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2008-11-24 16:55:53 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...subway train set, modeled after the New York MTA's R-27 subway cars that were in service up until the early 1990s. These are the same cars that were re-painted red in the '70s and '80s in an effort to discourage graffiti, earned them the nickname "Redbirds". (Other cars were painted the "Deep Gunn" red, too According to Wikipedia , the R27s...
 
Tags: subway, model subway, subway stops, cars, scale cars, lionel, r-27 subway cars, pairs, protestant pairs
 
 
 
 
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I'm No Perv, I Swear!: Portable Subway Straps

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2008-01-16 15:00:34 by Editor in Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
...subway groping problem that Japan has. If not, Japan has a problem with men playing grab-ass (with women) on the subway. Well now there's a solution for Japanese men aiming to keep a clean reputation -- portable subway straps (525 yen, ~$5). What you do is, uh, hold the thing -- that way women won't accuse you of touching them because you're...
 
Tags: subway, portable subway straps, portable subway strap, grab-ass, knuckle deep, clean reputation, ass, groper pinktentacle, japan
 
 
 
 
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We dump old subway cars into the Atlantic, and it's a good thing

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2008-04-11 17:57:21 by Kevin Hall in DVICE
...subway cars , and there are already nearly 700 of them on the ocean floor. Before you cry foul, consider the words of Jeff Tinsman, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control's artificial reef program manager, who told the New York Times: "Theyre basically luxury condominiums for fish Who would have thought that...
 
Tags: subway cars, cars, encourage fish, ocean floor, fish, delaware department, delaware, natural resources, york offers
 
 
 
 
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Portable subway strap keeps your hands where she can see 'em

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2008-01-14 18:24:34 by HASH0x8b0ba88 in DVICE
...subway strap won't guard you against trips and spills on the train . Rather, it keeps you safe against accusations Groping hands on the Tokyo underground has become something of a famous phenomenon of late, but it's a real problem. So much so that women can opt to ride in a section of the train just for them no boys allowed. But the fear...
 
Tags: portable subway strap, subway, hands, portable subway straps, straps, lewd hands, famous phenomenon, train, fear
 
 
 
 
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Portable Subway Strap Offers Instant Alibi For Accused Gropers

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2008-01-21 05:59:58 by Charlie Sorrel in Gadget Lab
...Subway. Groping . Three little words that go together like, well, builder, blonde and whistle . The legend of horny Japanese commuters copping a quick feel on a packed metro is well known. The guaranteed anonymity of the crowd, though, means that the innocent are also under suspicion. With this portable subway strap you can prove your hands...
 
Tags: subway, portable subway strap, japanese magazine tokitama, groper pink tentacle, horny japanese commuters, machine translation, straps cost, hands, words
 
 
 
 
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I Love The Subway Espresso Machine So Much

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2008-02-11 22:56:37 by Sascha Segan in Gearlog
...subway station. You're looking at it. It is a machine that makes pretty good, made-to-order Lavazza espressos ... in the frickin' subway You pop in one euro ($1.50) and the thing goes to work, dropping down a little paper cup and choose from a menu including single or double espressos, cappucinos, and up to five sugars. Then you wait about...
 
Tags: subway, diagonal subway station, espresso, paper cup, mobile world congress, technology, made-to-order lavazza espressos, evolutionary technology, north entrance
 
 
 
 
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MIT Student Hackers Revealing How to Get Free Subway Rides Is National Security Threat [Terrorists Win]

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2008-08-11 11:30:00 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
...subway rides for life?" teased the description of the talk "Anatomy of a Subway Hack" by three MIT students at DefCon this past weekend, where they planned to explain security flaws in the payment system for Boston's T subway. Live! They were going to demo how they cracked the system's CharlieCard smartcards and the mag-stripe on its paper...
 
Tags: subway, national security, free subway rides, students, mit students, payment system, computer, system, federal computer fraud