How about yabba-dabba commuting?
Posted: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 1:42 PM by Will Femia
A 4WD pedal cart
- I've been wondering when we'd start seeing more stuff like this. I
remember once seeing a cart a guy had built that could build up some
serious speed just by having the driver bounce on some springs. With
the right kind of gear box and maybe a little battery assist I bet you
could do some serious driving without getting too sweaty. I bet more people would be interested in getting to work under their own power if they didn't have to straddle a skinny frame of pipes and wobble alongside traffic. Sealing the thing to the elements might make the air inside a little thick, but with a good stereo and some rockin' music you'd be at work in no time.
Speaking of rockin' music,
StumbleUpon has a new audio channel (Ah the hazards of assuming...),
StumbleAudio. I've only just started playing with it but it looks like you pick your genre of choice and just listen, giving songs thumbs up and down as you go. Kind of like Pandora, it's supposed to learn from your thumbs up and down and make recommendations accordingly. The interesting bit from their "about" page: "And, yes, artists do get paid when their songs are played on StumbleAudio."
Some of the gals here are using
this new site to check the criminal histories of ex-boyfriends. I couldn't think of any criminals I know personally so I tried a search for Mike Tyson. It worked.
ADDING: Helen has written
her column this week about this site.
Cancer cured headline of the day:
Drug for deadly prostate cancer - Actually, this is a pretty responsible article, not the kind I usually make fun of with this feature. Oh wait, here's a ridiculous one:
Tobacco 'could help treat cancer.' Not only does it put "could help treat cancer" in quotes but it also puts "grow" in quotes and includes the tell-tale sentence:
UK specialists said while "potentially exciting", more research would be needed to test how well the vaccine actually worked.
They even put "potentially exciting" in quotes!
How to be interesting. True for more than just blogging.
Please please please
let these costumes be popular this Halloween. I would love to see a herd of these in this year's parade.
I'm still trying to piece together the McCain/NYTimes rejection story from online links. The key pieces appear to be
this Drudge item that includes the McCain essay and
this item from the Times that includes the rejection letter to McCain's people.
Speaking of getting worked up about the New York Times,
this bit of poll cherry picking has the left crying foul and is a great demonstration of how vulnerable poll data is to interpretation and why it's best to look at the source data yourself.
Was I never paying attention before or
are the Olympic facilities in China especially surreal?
I keep seeing people linking to
this perspective of the Great Sphinx. I guess we shouldn't be surprised that it's not in the middle of the desert but faces a tour bus parking lot and what looks like an urban environment.
I was interested to see the
comments in this thread about seeing Batman a second time. A lot of people who saw it first on IMAX want to see it a second time because IMAX was too big. I saw a pretty low res screening of it so I'm actually wanting to check out the IMAX version just to see the details I missed.
"What if there were no stop signs... and
a major corporation was charged with inventing one?"
"
365 days of free games - Every kind of gaming for every day of the year - and it won't cost you a penny." I don't generally like to download games to my machine, even if they are free, but this also includes videos of the downloadable games so at least you get a sense of what you're getting. Look for "play it now" links to games that don't require downloads.
There's a note on the
Mygazines site saying they're having technical difficulties but I didn't suffer any in testing out the site. I don't know how it's legal but they've basically scanned in tons of popular magazines so you can flip through them.
