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I Finally own a Zipp Wheel…
A little story of how a bike racing fan came to own a fancy, schmancy carbon race wheel during the recently concluded Tour of California.
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at 11:21 AM on February 28, 2008
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Bicycle Coffee Systems
reviews products essential to the "joys of bicycling and drinking good coffee, at the same time" and is written by "The Earth's Leading Authority on Conveying Coffee by Bicycle".
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at 1:50 PM on August 14, 2006
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Feedwhip
monitors web pages and emails you when they change. This is handy for keeping tabs on a site without an RSS feed.
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at 11:16 AM on March 16, 2006
(16 comments)
theStatus
is a free, private, weblog-style site that lets the hospitalized "spend less time responding to inquiries and more time recovering".
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at 10:45 AM on March 4, 2005
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"The MP3 Experiment
is the world’s first live theatrical performance that audiences will experience exclusively through headphones. There are no actors. There is no host. Audience members will download an mp3 track from the show’s website in advance, load it onto their portable players, and bring it with them to the show.
The lights go down, a video projection cues the audience to
press play on their mp3 players simultaneously, and the
show begins. The mp3 track is an intricate mix of music
and instructions from an unknown voice." Produced by Improv Everywhere, also mentioned
here.
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at 12:20 PM on November 30, 2004
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Group as User:
Flaming and the Design of Social Software is Clay Shirky's latest essay on social software. It describes some interesting experiments and avenues for experimentation in reducing flaming in
social discourse software. A prime example is
Bumplist.
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at 11:11 AM on November 8, 2004
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TV Tropes Catalogued:
like the As You Know, "Character A explains to Character B something that they both know, but the audience doesn't. "As you know, Simon, Jennifer has never been the same since the tragic codfish incident." "As you know, Jennifer, my Death Ray depends on codfish balls."
Boing-Boing Filter
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at 2:57 PM on March 11, 2004
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Danny's Land:
a blog of amusement park, ride theory and oddball transportation links.
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at 10:38 AM on March 5, 2004
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Telltale Weekly
launched today. It's public domain meets Creative Commons meets Ogg Vorbis. Their mission is to build a free audiobook library of public domain texts.
Four are available now, but Twain, Chekov Doctorow (Corry, not E.L.) and more are
on the way.
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at 10:20 AM on February 27, 2004
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Ikea Walkthrough:
Now you are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. A skeleton, probably the remains of a luckless consumer, lies here. Beside the skeleton is a rusty SKARPT high-quality steel knife with hard plastic handle and a shopping cart. Search the body. Take the IKEA GIFT CARD (still has $43 on it). Take and eat the SWEDISH FISH for sustenance. Now go: S, E, D, D, E, SW, W, SW, D, W, U, S
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at 11:15 AM on January 26, 2004
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CrewPix
photos shot by film, tv and commercial crew members.
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at 2:11 PM on January 23, 2004
(1 comment)
Today the
British government released a
major report on the safety of genetically modified foods. According to
New Scientist, "existing genetically modified crops and foods pose a 'very low' risk to human health and are 'very unlikely' to rampage through the British countryside", but
others disagree.
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at 2:10 PM on July 21, 2003
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Required Reading
from the President's Council on Bioethics.
Each of the readings that follow - which include poetry, short stories and more - is accompanied by a brief introduction and questions about the bioethical implications of the work. The new booklist includes James Watson, Tolstoy, Shakespeare and Ovid. Via the WSJ.
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at 3:58 PM on April 18, 2003
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The lecture
Thomas Friedman gave at
SAIS a few days ago. A longer form, very interesting and informative explanation of what he's learned post-Sept. 11th about the Middle East. Windows Media video and Real video and audio all available.
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at 11:54 AM on March 10, 2003
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