Excitement at the tour:
Video replays show Spaniard Carlos Barredo (QuickStep) taking off his front wheel and passing his bike to a team aid. Barredo then charges three metres at the startled Portuguese rider Rui Alberto Costa (Caisse d’Epargne), wielding the wheel over his head.
Video available here. I haven’t been following the tour closely; it’s hard [...]
Bicycling Magazine gave 50 bikes to 50 people to see how biking might change their lives:
What could be more mundane than what John F. Kennedy called “the simple pleasure of a bike ride?” And yet even on the simplest ride, so much happens: We feel things, see things, think things, and say things that [...]
If I was in private practice I would buy this. Now. Immediately. @
At least this won’t have lasting effects on the school’s reputation. *cough* @
We deeply regret to inform you that without the necessary budgetary legislation by the State Legislature in Harrisburg, the City of Philadelphia will not have the funds to operate our neighborhood branch libraries, regional libraries, or the Parkway Central Library after October 2, 2009. @ This is not just sad, it’s a travesty. How have we come to the point where a major American city is closing all of its public libraries!?
Consider the possibility that the cheap might set you free. And, for crying out loud, put on a sweater.
For iPhone moms, an Internet-connected handset with a wide variety of downloadable applications acts as a weather watcher, a price researcher, an address locator, a schedule reminder, an isolation destroyer, an e-book reader and much more.
Apparently yes: The more you get angry, the angrier you get. @ Fascinating.
Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. @
So, let me get this straight, we are socializing the loss but privatizing the gain. While shareholders in the banks will be rewarded for the incompetence shown by their executives, taxpayers will be left holding worthless assets. Seems like a good deal, huh? @
