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The Draft Block Exemption Regulation on
Technology Transfer Agreements Is the
New Safe Harbor Less Safe?

The Draft Block Exemption Regulation on
Technology Transfer Agreements Is the
New Safe Harbor Less Safe? 05/17/2004 10:26 AM
Mondaq May 17 2004 1:36PM GMT

Streetcars and Trolley Buses

Streetcars and Trolley Buses 07/06/2004 06:32 PM
Streetcars, buses and trolleys of the former USSR. An extensive collection of pictures of public transportation from the Baltic to Siberia. Here's a babelfish translation of the index page. (via The Daily Czech)

Who's Hot Today? Albany, NY (Buses)

Who's Hot Today? Albany, NY (Buses) 06/05/2005 10:56 PM
The buses from Albany, New York, to NYC, will have Wi-Fi: The state's capital will offer on-board Wi-Fi for these financial-to-political commuters....

Computers on Md. Buses Aim for
Efficiency

Computers on Md. Buses Aim for
Efficiency 02/10/2004 11:54 AM
SiliconValley.com Feb 10 2004 3:43PM GMT

Paris Metro firm to run Wi-Fi buses

Paris Metro firm to run Wi-Fi buses 06/11/2004 06:25 AM
First trains, now trolleys

School buses crash - 17 hurt

School buses crash - 17 hurt 01/22/2004 12:48 PM
A number of secondary school pupils are taken to hosptial after two school buses collide in north Wales.

City to Buy Diesel-Electric Buses, Not
Natural Gas Ones

City to Buy Diesel-Electric Buses, Not
Natural Gas Ones 03/27/2005 09:28 PM
New York City Transit's decision to buy hybrid-electric buses represents a significant shift in its strategy for gradually replacing diesel fuels with cleaner ones.

Media praise Kashmir peace buses

Media praise Kashmir peace buses 04/08/2005 05:26 AM
Newspapers in India and Pakistan hail the first cross-Kashmir bus in 60 years, but caution on a wider peace.

Bush, Kerry Tour Buses Made in Canada
(AP)

Bush, Kerry Tour Buses Made in Canada
(AP) 05/04/2004 11:53 PM
AP - President Bush rode across Ohio on Tuesday in a bus emblazoned, "Yes, America can."

Rabbi Urges Pig Fat on Buses to Stop
Bombers (Reuters)

Rabbi Urges Pig Fat on Buses to Stop
Bombers (Reuters) 02/13/2004 09:19 AM
Reuters - A prominent Israeli rabbi has proposed hanging bags of pig fat in buses to deter Muslim suicide bombers who may want to avoid contact with an "unclean" animal, an Israeli official said on Thursday.

'Magic' Fuel-Saving Buses Fall a Bit
Short on Wonders

'Magic' Fuel-Saving Buses Fall a Bit
Short on Wonders 12/26/2004 04:52 AM
Although General Motors said that its hybrid buses would show a fuel economy improvement of up to 60 percent, the savings around the country appear closer to 10 percent to 20 percent.

Double Bombing Kills 12 Aboard Israeli
Buses (Reuters)

Double Bombing Kills 12 Aboard Israeli
Buses (Reuters) 08/31/2004 07:58 AM
Reuters - Explosions tore through two buses on the main street of the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people in presumed suicide attacks, Israeli television said.

Lego Disneyland

Lego Disneyland 04/04/2005 06:25 PM
Cory Doctorow: These model train/Lego enthusiasts have built a selective scale model of Disneyland Park out of legos! w00t! Link (Thanks, Ernest)

Goths in Disneyland

Goths in Disneyland 09/01/2004 05:11 PM
Cory Doctorow: August 29th was the annual "Bats Day in the Fun Park" -- an annual gathering of goths at Disneyland. Here are Livejournal entires and photogalleries from the event. Batty's Livejournal, Foxfire' s Livejournal, DrunkRockers gallery one, DrunkRockers gallery two (via The Disney Blog)

Deaths at Disneyland

Deaths at Disneyland 07/14/2004 05:06 AM
Here's a trip through all the deaths that have taken place at Disneyland, with photos of the widowmaking apparati. The author does a good job of separating the urban legends from the truth, and pointing the finger at whomever it deserves to be pointed at (sometimes Disney, sometimes foolhardy guests). The over-the-top cussin'-and-rantin' style is very nice.

Although the presumed allure of the PeopleMover during a graduation takeover of the Magic Kingdom would be hopes for a nice view of the Anaheim skyline and a hummer, the usual proliferation of the drunken testosterone penned another chapter of the ride's storied existence in blood during the summer of 1980.

Gerardo Gonzales had presumably never heard of the name Ricky Lee Yama when he boarded the sluggish trail of candy-painted tram cars that night, which is a shame. Aside from sparing his parents the embarrassment of recounting his story to relatives at the wake, it would have also denied an opportunity for ironic history to repeat itself. Sadly, this wasn't the case.

Link (Thanks, Spencer!)

Disneyland Stuff

Disneyland Stuff 03/13/2003 10:17 AM
Some links:Disney Paper Resource Center Updates to Yesterland: Disneyland in 1955 and Sub Lagoon Still Empty. (links via scrubbles.net)...

Disneyland Entrance

Disneyland Entrance 04/29/2004 07:47 AM
family visits to Disneyland in the 50s and 60s .. Vintage snapshots of Disneyland .. Historic Disneyland Photos .. Disneyland silloin ennen .. old Disneyland pics

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ContentWatch Announces “Family Safe”
Recognition for Family Safe Web Sites on
the Internet

ContentWatch Announces “Family Safe”
Recognition for Family Safe Web Sites on
the Internet 09/24/2004 03:13 AM
ContentWatch announces its Family Safe Program, complete with a new "Family Safe" Award for websites, a list of family safe websites, and internet and email protection products for homes and businesses. [PRWEB Sep 24, 2004]

Disneyland notes from Chuq

Disneyland notes from Chuq 06/06/2005 12:09 AM
Chuq wrote a few notes on the Disney Resort..., which I guess is true, for some meaning of the word "few." It's a handy reference, because I haven't been to Disneyland in ages and we're planning on going next year...

Want A Private Tour Of Disneyland?

Want A Private Tour Of Disneyland? 03/27/2005 08:15 AM

Find out more about "tidbits of history that don't fit with The Walt Disney Co.'s carefully groomed, family friendly image." Of course, the in-person tour is now being banned by Disney. So? All you have to do now is get an iPod.

Thoughts on Tokyo Disneyland

Thoughts on Tokyo Disneyland 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
Following are my fairly disjointed thoughts on Tokyo Disneyland, but mainly just focusing on the Tiki Room. Written the day...

Disneyland Paris's fart humor

Disneyland Paris's fart humor 01/02/2004 07:10 AM
I took a holiday in Disneyland Paris this Christmas, and was amazed to find the flatulence-humor subtext pervading the safety cards stuck on all the ride-vehicles. JPEG Link

Mom abandons son (but not daughter) at
Disneyland -- which one did she love
more?

Mom abandons son (but not daughter) at
Disneyland -- which one did she love
more? 08/03/2004 07:46 PM
A woman abandoned her 8-year-old son (but not her 11-year-old daughter) at Disneyland, taking off in the middle of a family trip and heading into the sunset.

Police say she was questioned for several hours, but could not explain why she had left her son alone.

Link (via Disney Blog)

Unhappy Disneyland visitors gallery

Unhappy Disneyland visitors gallery 04/13/2005 03:52 AM
Cory Doctorow: This Flickr set is a collection of black-and-white photos of unhappy people at Disneyland -- there's something practically eerie about this. Link (via The Disney Blog)

Disneyland Club 33 1967 prospectus

Disneyland Club 33 1967 prospectus 06/22/2005 01:49 AM
Cory Doctorow: Check out this scanned-in 1967 prospectus for membership in the then-new Club 33, the secretive exclusive members' club over Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean.

High above the streets and courtyards of New Orleans Square, hidden from public view and the bustle of a typical day at Disneyland, is a page out of old New Orleans that even the proud Creole society might have chosen and cherished as its own.

Here French doors open onto balconies that overlook Disneyland's own muddy Mississippi, the Rivers of America. Here, in the tradition of the good host, Walt Disney and his staff planned and executed Disneyland's most exclusive setting - part elegant dining room, part relaxed refreshment center, part distinguished art gallery, part meeting room and part private showplace.

Everything - from plush furnishings to crystal chandeliers, from original paintings and sketches to a personalized Audio-Animatronic show for members and guests only - has been chosen or specially created for Club 33, by the staff of WED Enterprises and by other Disney artisans.

Here, away from the general public, adult beverages will be available, including the finest of wines to match the food specialities of the house.

Link (Thanks, Kirby!)

Update: Jen points out the club33 Flickr tag for photos of the contemporary Club 33.

Voyeuristic vintage snapshots of
Disneyland

Voyeuristic vintage snapshots of
Disneyland 04/28/2004 08:48 AM
Disneyland is one of the most-photographed piecces of real-estate in the world. Since 1955, visitors to the park have been exhaustively documenting it with photos and slides. Now, the Disnephiles of The Imaginary World have assembled a "virtual tour" made up of scans of slides shot at Disneyland in the 1950s and 1960s. This combines the thrill of fanboy history with the voyeurism of going through family photo albums found at thrift shops, and just about made my day. Link (Thanks, Hork!)

PK Dick on reality, Disneyland, and
authentic humans

PK Dick on reality, Disneyland, and
authentic humans 09/19/2004 07:47 AM
Cory Doctorow: Great (if over-long) Philip K Dick essay on the nature of reality and science fiction:

But I consider that the matter of defining what is real -- that is a serious topic, even a vital topic. And in there somewhere is the other topic, the definition of the authentic human. Because the bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans -- as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides. My two topics are really one topic; they unite at this point. Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves. So we wind up with fake humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans. It is just a very large version of Disneyland. You can have the Pirate Ride or the Lincoln Simulacrum or Mr. Toad's Wild Ride -- you can have all of them, but none is true.

In my writing I got so interested in fakes that I finally came up with the concept of fake fakes. For example, in Disneyland there are fake birds worked by electric motors which emit caws and shrieks as you pass by them. Suppose some night all of us sneaked into the park with real birds and substituted them for the artificial ones. Imagine the horror the Disneyland officials would feel when they discovered the cruel hoax. Real birds! And perhaps someday even real hippos and lions. Consternation. The park being cunningly transmuted from the unreal to the real, by sinister forces. For instance, suppose the Matterhorn turned into a genuine snow-covered mountain? What if the entire place, by a miracle of God's power and wisdom, was changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, into something incorruptible? They would have to close down

Link (Thanks, Condour!)

Disney builds a Green Line at Disneyland

Disney builds a Green Line at Disneyland 04/23/2004 04:26 PM
Disneyland is adding a Green Line -- a security gate to "stop terrorists."

Reality is coming to Disneyland's fantasy world, in the form of permanent security gates. Bowing to terrorism fears, the Walt Disney Co. plans to build the gates at the Disneyland Resort next fall. The company had resisted security gates around Disneyland and the California Adventure theme park next door, believing the sense of fantasy would be spoiled.

Link< /a> (Thanks, Ian!)

Your own Disneyland Paris
anti-flatulence sign

Your own Disneyland Paris
anti-flatulence sign 01/02/2004 01:11 PM
Turns out that you can buy a "No Farting On This Ride" Disneyland Paris sign on eBay for about $10. Link (Thanks, Gary!)

Disneyland fights for right to operate
unsafe coasters

Disneyland fights for right to operate
unsafe coasters 04/08/2005 06:26 PM
Cory Doctorow: Ernest sez, "Disneyland is fighting a California appeals court decision that its rollercoaster-like rides (Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Matterhorn Bobsleds, etc.) must adhere to the same safety standards as public buses and actual railroads. The court decision would require rollercoaster operators in California to use 'utmost care and diligence' as opposed to merely 'reasonable care,' which is the current standard. I'm not quite sure how 'utmost care and diligence' is compatible with rollercoasters at all."

Disneyland's coasters have been falling to pieces, killing people, and going down for multi-year unscheduled maintenance ever since an ex-McKinsey consultant was put in charge of the park and heavily slashed the preventative maintenance regime while firing the park's most senior operators, many of whom had run the one-of-a-kind rides since the day they opened and were familiar with their many quirks.

This move is in marked contrast to the stuff that Disney got up to in Florida, where they essentially bought an entire township (actually, an "improvement district" which is like a town but more autonomous) so that they could write their own building code (among other reasons). The building code they wrote let them build things like fiberglass castles, which are not in the usual town codes -- and the castles and other structures they built have stood the test of time.

But in Disneyland, it seems to me that they're pushing for the right to remain negligent, not the right to innovate beyond the imagination embodied in a construction code.

Richard Derevan, a lawyer for Disney, told the justices that under the higher standard of care, "something could always be safer. The ride could be slower, the curves less sharp, the hills less steep. The ride may lose its purpose for being."

The case involves a claim filed by the estate of Cristina Moreno, a tourist from Spain who visited Disneyland in Anaheim on her honeymoon in 2000. Her family says she suffered a brain hemorrhage after riding the Indiana Jones Adventure, which simulates an off-road jeep ride. She died a few months later.

Link (Thanks, Ernest!)

Disneyland 1968 family holiday photos

Disneyland 1968 family holiday photos 07/27/2004 05:51 AM
Here's a wonderful set of family holiday snapshots from a modern-day blogger's childhood trip to Disneyland in 1968 -- and good as the photos are the reminisces that accompany them are even better. Link (via The Disney Blog)

Tiny, wicked Disneyland uniform pieces
on eBay

Tiny, wicked Disneyland uniform pieces
on eBay 05/23/2004 03:03 PM
This Disneyland Parking Attendant coat and shirt on eBay look great, but they're way too small for me. Link

Disney busts amateur Disneyland tour
guide

Disney busts amateur Disneyland tour
guide 03/22/2005 05:01 PM
Cory Doctorow: Jim Hill is one of the great Disnephiles and Disney bloggers of the planet. Among other things, he gives a regular tour of Disneyland to people who pay him to show them around and tell them the inside story of the park (there are tons of tour operators who show people around Disney parks -- often escorting large groups from other countries). This weekend, Disney security stopped and threatened to arrest Jim for giving his tour.

I'm serious, folks. 20 minutes into my 2 o'clock tour, I was suddenly interrupted by two officials from the park's security staff. They quietly pulled me aside and said that they'd had complaints about my tour. That they'd heard that I was saying negative things about their theme park. More importantly, that my JHM tour was somehow undercutting Disneyland Guest Relations' ability to sell its own tours of the theme park.

Needless to say, I was somewhat surprised by this reaction. As were the 10 or so people who were taking my 2 o'clock tour and watching all of this unfold from 5 feet away. I mean, yes, the JHM Disneyland tour does contain a few juicy stories. Which is why Chuck Oberleitner once called it "The 'E' True Hollywood version of Disneyland's history." But is that really reason enough to shut the tour down?

Lin k (Thanks, Tavie!)

High-tech, roofed Disneyland for Hong
Kong

High-tech, roofed Disneyland for Hong
Kong 06/25/2004 05:21 AM
Mickey News Jun 25 2004 9:04AM GMT

Car Rides

Car Rides 06/28/2004 01:08 PM
Susan Campbell: Think about this a moment, and then look into the shining faces of your loved ones. You didn't opt for the DVD option on the minivan, did you? And you will be trapped for hours in an area roughly the size of a kitchen table with the people who know how to push your buttons better than anyone. If you have kids, a DVD option is a wise investment.

Disneyland ride scheduler uses
historical wait-time data to cut queuing

Disneyland ride scheduler uses
historical wait-time data to cut queuing 12/27/2004 10:39 AM
Cory Doctorow: This Win-only app uses historical wait times and a "scheduling algorithm" to help you plan your day at Disneyland to minimize your wait-times and maximize your rides.

RideMax allows you to specify the attractions you wish to ride during your visit, then uses a sophisticated scheduling algorithm to order your attractions so that the amount of time you spend in line is minimized.

Using historical wait time statistics for each attraction as a foundation, RideMax analyzes millions of different ride sequences in order to create a minimum-wait-time itinerary. This schedule is tailored to the expected crowd patterns on the day of your visit, for the attractions you want to ride!

Link (Thanks, Alex)

Detroit's Hot Rides

Detroit's Hot Rides 06/03/2004 12:15 PM
Auto makers report strong sales for May.

'3G' rides again

'3G' rides again 07/21/2004 06:00 PM
ZDNet Jul 21 2004 9:01PM GMT

Overstock Rides Again

Overstock Rides Again 04/23/2004 02:52 PM
Overstock books another quarter of strong growth.
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