August 2008
25 posts
“You can make any type of construction member when you deform the bamboo,”...”
– Natural Building Colloquium
Aug 1st
July 2008
49 posts
“The final tricks, hidden under FSA logos, are from the Spanish company Rotor....”
– VeloNews | How Carlos Sastre’s Cervélo P3C is tuned to help him win Saturday’s time trial and the Tour.. | Tour de France Coverage. See, BioPace is not a hoax or dead!  Someone just changed the name!  Sastre’s TT AND regular bike had them!  TDF Win = NonRoundChainRing FTW!
Jul 30th
Council bans new fast-food outlets in South L.A. -... →
I’m glad they’ve stopped referring to them as “restaurants” in the news.  If only we could legally take the word food out of “fast food”.  One interesting piece of legislation. 
Jul 30th
Beckmann N'Thepe - sarl d'Architecture - rue... →
Two in a row!  Bizarre!
Jul 30th
TNPLUS →
An architecture site with decent flash use?  Still think it’s WAY overused, but at least it’s getting better.
Jul 30th
sayaka yamamoto • living with dinosaurs »  →
Nice to know I’m not alone
Jul 30th
Jul 30th
Don't Dump On The One Hit Wonders
People get down on one hit wonders too often.  I think they’re the best.  Imagine if everyone on earth had one good song in them!  We’d have more songs than we could ever listen to, and certainly more than we could ever appreciate!  We shouldn’t be talking about one hit wonders as the anomaly.  We ought to be speaking about them as though they were the norm.  They could craft it...
Jul 30th
Jul 30th
:: Hotel Puerta America Madrid :: →
12 floors, 12 architects.  hmmm
Jul 29th
Gage & DeSoto | LeMond 89 →
As I was walking down Hayes yesterday, I was thinking to myself about making a disturbingly similar t-shirt. Creepy.
Jul 29th
The Future Perfect - (mt) →
I’m confused
Jul 29th
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Jul 29th
..::: IaaC :::.. The Institute for Advanced... →
I’m pretty sure I should be going to school here.
Jul 29th
Jul 29th
American Museum of Natural History Library... →
Eric pointed me to these photographs of the old dioramas from the American Museum of Natural History.  Makes me even more excited about the new academy opening this fall.  Barely able to wait.
Jul 29th
“Kounios tells a story about an expert Zen meditator who took part in one of the...”
– kottke.org :: home of fine hypertext products See!  Focus on NOT being focused! bingo
Jul 29th
Quantum Quest - Potentially Awesome? | Science Not... →
Shatner plays the core of the Sun.  His greatest role yet?
Jul 29th
Jul 28th
Alien contact covered up, says Apollo veteran... →
Aliens, if you’re reading this, please politely make press statement.  You have no idea what the media can do to your image if you don’t speak for yourselves.
Jul 25th
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Jul 24th
Velodrome crash →
Or: A lesson in wheel tightening.
Jul 23rd
“Ice cream is the world’s most overrated food. I could take it or leave it....”
– Bike Snob NYC I find myself agreeing with this lately.  With the exception of the It’s-It of course.
Jul 23rd
Album of the year →
Jul 23rd
Jul 23rd
For Sale: Tyrannosaurus rex STAN Skeleton - Fossil... →
With a weak dollar, I’m putting my money into fossils. Not futures, but pasts.  Not gold, not oil.
Jul 22nd
Google Maps 'Bike There' Feature Request... →
Jul 20th
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Jul 19th
Rebirth by Arne Quinze | Neu Black →
I’ll let those who know me decide what they think of this
Jul 19th
DNA Tests Reveal Who Was Having Sex with... →
Pffffff, I could tell you who.  You might not like it, but I could tell you who.
Jul 17th
Pac-Txt: Pac-Man meets Zork →
Finally a pacman everyone can win
Jul 16th
Are Stormtroopers Making America Safe For... →
I couldn’t agree more.
Jul 15th
“If the report was substantiated, it would have made the man only the 17th...”
– No trace of cougar, no evidence of attack Just how rare it is.
Jul 15th
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Jul 14th
PORTFOLIO SHOWREEL | Jon Rådbrink, RCA Graduate... →
I mean, it’s not bad.  It’s a start.
Jul 12th
Color Scheme Generator →
Plug in a word, it searches flickr, then generates color schemes from the pictures. On a side note: Wouldn’t 38 Special have been better if they would’ve rocked just a touch harder?  Just a tiny little touch more right?
Jul 12th
WAG - I would like to work with these folk →
Jul 12th
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Jul 9th
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Jul 9th
Aerogel about to get a whole lot cheaper? About... →
Jul 9th
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Jul 8th
Getting My Kicks
No, not those lame half-assed incorrectly designed Nike McFly’s going for thousands on eBay.  By the time this is read, I will be out of the shower and on the road in my attempt to reclaim what’s left of music.  Think, The Never Ending Story but in the American SouthWest.  Instead of artax or falkor, it’s an Audi quatro wagon.  It’s still against The Nothing, but more for...
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