Do you like old sailboats and/or cool t-shirts? Check out Vintage Sailors.
It’s a new site that sells t-shirts and other items with old, but not forgotten, sailing logos and such. Right now, it’s pretty heavy on Pearson Ensign stuff, but there’s more coming in the future.
This is a very specific, technical post. However, I can’t be the only person that has struggled with calculating New York sales tax on clothing with Woocommerce Shipping & Tax. So, I’m going to post the solution that worked for me.
If you’re not working on a Woocommerce store selling clothing in New York and having trouble accurately calculating sales tax, you’ll probably want to move on. If you are, keep reading…
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Twice a year, we change our clocks, and twice a hear we’ll all see multiple versions of the “We should abolish standard (or daylight saving) time!” argument.
FiveThirtyEight’s Can You Make Winter Less Dark? does a great job of demonstrating why neither option might not be the right answer for everyone. You can adjust a few parameters and see how those changes would work for your fellow citizens around the country.
I’ll be sure to link to this as the kvetching starts when we spring forward.
via Flowingdata
Streetfilms contrasts and compares cycling in Paris and New York City. Care to take a wild guess as to which one is better for pedestrians and cyclists?
New York has come a long way, but there’s so much more that can be done to improve our streets. Paris is a great example of what’s possible. They had to claw back space from street parking and vehicle lanes just like we do. More than anything, it takes political courage.
