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Train full of love departing (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Friday, February 20th, 2009

They were snapping photos Thursday night in the back room at the Wm. K. Walthers Inc. headquarters building, old club members and old model railroad enthusiasts, watching as the locomotives rolled down the track.

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Train full of love departing (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Time Flies and Drinks Flow on German High-Speed Rail (Wired News)

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Germany's Intercity Express is efficient, it's clean and the beer is served in frosty glasses. The United States would do well to adopt a similar system.

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Time Flies and Drinks Flow on German High-Speed Rail (Wired News)

LimeWire Creator Brings Open-Source to Urban Planning (Wired News)

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Entrepreneur Mark Gorton wants to do for people what he already helped do for files: move them from here to there in the most efficient way possible using open-source tools. You might call it a "P2P-to-people" initiative -- these efforts to make cities more people-friendly are partly funded by people sharing files.

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LimeWire Creator Brings Open-Source to Urban Planning (Wired News)