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Bicycle Vending Machine
Springtime’s Bike Dispenser allows you to rent a RFID-equipped (Radio Frequency Identifcation) bike from one vending machine, ride it to your destination, drop it off at another vending machine and walk away. The Dutch company won an award at the 2007 Spark Design & Architecture Awards for their idea, which is perfectly suited for an urban environment. The neatest factor is that it would cost you the same as riding the local metro transit. The Bike Dispenser actually capitalizes on the idea of the bicycle as the missing link in the commuter’s mobility chain. It is supposed to be the most compact storage system for bicycles in the world!
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“That’s So Ghetto”
For the unenlightened – which constitutes, say, anybody who uses this term to connote the urban black impoverished – the term “ghetto” originated as a reference to secluded Jewish quarters in Italy.
That’s so ghetto.
It’s an idiom that signals a crude remark or uncouth manners or just general unruly behavior.It is a grossly inaccurate statement, the brother of “hot ghetto mess” and the second cousin of “Indian giver”. It is representative of our lowest rung, the socially invisible and the politically marginalized. It is an incubator where ugly behavior and nihilism lives, a place to be shunned at all costs by higher society. It is what employers see when they look at an applicant’s address, and decide whether to call him or her back based on just that. It is naming your child Tanisha, Shanquita, Lovita, or Amare. It is yelling and cackling in the movie theater. It is long press-on finger nails, loud gum popping, skimpy outfits, tattoos, gold teeth and myriad children running around. It is {fill in the blank with favorite example]. “It” is our ghetto. Classifying a group of people as this one word is irresponsible at best and hurtful at worse. It goes without saying - and of course I am now saying this - that not everyone from impoverished neighborhoods act uncouth or give their children concocted names.
Read Rest of article here: Ghetto Matters: “That’s so Ghetto”
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