Grenade art

Squidsicle is making luxury and ducky grenade art from duds, Thanks Jack! Link. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

Cyclecide

Cyclecide has a big show coming up this weekend, Pedal Monster, Sunday July 15th. It will include the Pedal Powered Carnival Ride Midway, The Life Size Game of Mouse Trap, and lots of live music - Link. [Read this article] [Comment on this article]

Thinking about heat

Date: July 6Mileage: 89.2July mileage: 91.7Temperature upon departure: 57Before leaving for my ride this morning, I put all of my handlebar bag gear in a little pile ... Nutrigrain Bar, Clif Bar, camera, extra wool socks and mittens. "Mittens," Geoff said. "It's July! You don't need mittens."I pointed ...

After midnight

Date: July 3Mileage: 23.4July mileage: 61.6Temperature upon departure: 70In Juneau, the July 4 fireworks are dark-permitting, not weather-permitting.So we get our kicks real early. Happy New Year ... er ... Independence Day, everyone.Just a few (thousand) miles north

No fish

Today I spent seven hours in a boat with a fishing line dangling in the water, but I only caught one fish. People in Alaska would call it a "baby halibut." People in Utah would call it a "big, ugly fish." We threw him back. Then, even with a cyclical catalog of boppin' 60s hits blasting over the satellite ...

Indecent Exposure...

"Every photographed object is simply the trace left behind by the disappearance of everything else. It?s almost the perfect crime, an almost total final solution, as it were, for a world which projects only the illusion of this or that object, which the photograph then transforms ? absent from the rest ...

Share the Road...

...just keep in mind the sort of people with whom you may be sharing it and give 'em plenty of room. Can't wait for the "rapture" to come and clear the road of these idiots.(Taken on the commute to work, Tuesday morning.)On a positive note, there's this hoppy little piece of news. Drink on, but mind ...

Fixed Income...

Update: Sold!So my buddy Bootch-wah has finally lost his mind and decided to put his classic Benotto track bike (with Colnago fork) up for sale with the idea of paying off all of his booze merchants. Good luck!Check it out here and here.Exorcise your options before it disappears...

Little Chef!

Last night I found myself in a remarkably Ratatouille predicament. It is rare that our cat Rudy brings an animal into the house in anything but either a dead, or mortally wounded condition. Last night we were hanging out in the basement to escape the upstairs heat (Seattle houses don't have AC). ...

Webcam in house photographs thief

Mark Frauenfelder: One of the techies at Suicide Girls set up a webcam in his house, hoping to document any return visit of the thief who had stolen his laptop. And it worked. The crook raided the guy's refrigerator, which gave LA's finest ample time to nab the weasely jerk. Link

Juror caught listening to MP3 player under her hijab

Mark Frauenfelder: A UK judge who heard "tinny music" in his courtroom during a murder trial found out that a juror was hiding an MP3 player under her habib hijab. She was arrested and might be imprisoned. Outside the court Ben Maguire, a barrister representing the prosecution, said that it was a "bad ...

Creepy Dennis the Menace panel

David Pescovitz: Fantagraphics art director Jacob Covey posted this creepy Dennis The Menace panel to the Fantagraphics Flog!. (Click image to see it larger.) It's scary how angry Dennis's dad is at his son!!! Fantagraphics is publishing a beautifully-packaged collection series called Hank Ketcham's ...

Back to Work

PROD3000 gets no respect. [Technorati tags: Cartoons, Chickens, Dedication, Work, Shirk, PROD3000]

'New thinking' needed on climate

The global climate debate needs to embrace a "new way of thinking", UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon urges.

Government Takes On Oversight of Nixon Library

A bit of national history occurred Wednesday morning when the Richard M. Nixon Library quietly switched hands. Previously overseen privately, the library is now part of the presidential library system administered by the National Archives, and new tapes have been released.

Seven gored at Pamplona bull run

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Water vapour found on exoplanet

Astronomers find water in the atmosphere of a giant planet outside our Solar System.

Crofters' legal vow on wind farm

Opponents to a massive wind farm proposed for the Western Isles are threatening court action.

NY firefighters attack Giuliani

New York firefighters who lost colleagues on 9/11 strongly attack Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.

The Oldest People in the World

Genarians is a website dedicated to listing the world’s oldest people: This website highlights living people in their 90’s (nonagenarians) and 100’s (centenarians) who were noted in some field during their lifetimes, i.e., the arts, sports, science, politics, business, etc., and then ...