July 2009
10 posts
If you happened to catch any of the Tour de France... →
“All the riders would dress in the same room and a list would get passed around,” Joe Parkin recalls. “At the top was the time the winning breakaway would go. There’d be a check mark next to the names of the riders in the winning break. And the name of the winner would be underlined.”
No Time Like Now - Psylons
From the 1988 casette...
The 90s
These days the kids are rollerblading again. Kurt Cobain’s snarl is slipping back into coffeehouse playlists. The jeans are straight. The colors are starting to day-glo. The hive-mind has spoken.
It's official, fixie kids just want to be all bmx →
According to the Times:
The gatherings, known as peel sessions (“peel” refers to a trick in which the rider skids on a fixed back wheel), draw a mix of bike messengers, film editors, industrial designers, take-out deliverers and students to a parking lot about two blocks long and 50 feet wide at Jackson Street and Meeker Avenue. The participants vary from experienced cyclists with sponsorships...
What's Happening With Foursquare? →
So I just wrote this article for the New York Observer’s new site NYFI about an interesting iPhone app called Foursquare. If you haven’t heard of it already, Foursquare—developed by Dennis Crowley of Dodgeball fame—uses your phone plus GPS to turn your social life into a videogame. But Dennis has bigger aspirations for it:
If Foursquare goes the way Crowley hopes it will...
David Pogue has nice things to say about Bing. →