Luke Iseman sells a Bicycle Defense Kit for $19.90.
The Bicycle Defense Kit (BDK) offers options for dealing with aggressive motorists. Contained within an altoids tin, the 8 tools vary in detectability, potential to cause damage, and legality.
Specifically, cyclists can:
• Issue "citizen ... More.
This old, yellowed, photocopy hangs near the bathroom at my favorite burger joint in San Francisco, Joe's Cable Car. I can just see back in time to the late 1980s or so when it was probably a popular faxed gag in corporate America. For some reason, the whole thing, especially imagining it tacked u... More.
Ars Technica covers the renaissance of Gopher, the text-based menuing system that presaged the Web. My first net-industry job was building a gopher site (halfway through, we scrapped it in favor of a website). Good times.
Cameron Kaiser is a programmer on the Overbite Project, which brings better ... More.
The Succeedblog is a lovely, optimistic, "wonderful things" approach to the web -- rather than amusing its readers with pictures of bad things, captioned with "FAIL," it focuses on pictures of great things, captioned with "SUCCEED". Lovely.
Succeedblog
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Jeff sez, "'Guerrilla archivist' Rick Prelinger is once again joining forces with the Long Now Foundation for the 4th in his series of screenings titled, 'Lost Landscapes of San Francisco.'
In the first talk of this series, Rick unveiled a jaw-dropping, now-famous restoration of a first-person pers... More.
Seeya sometime, Connie. Learned lots (and some disturbing details on the subject of squirrels) and I hope to see you back again! :D
Good luck on your future endeavors! It was a pleasure having you here!
Thanks for hanging out and contributing such great posts, Connie! It was a delight having you around. I want to eat some of the amazing DIY fermento-foods you make, now!
I have really enjoyed reading your posts a lot Connie. Not just saying that at a white girl convinced she is really Korean given how much I love the kim chi. :) I hope to partake of what you monger really soon!
Connie--thanks for the posts and for the excellent kimchi demo at Machine Project!