Archive for June, 2009

Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot hands. Fascinating — but not for the squeamish.
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Found this via twitter on cool hunting.. i need to get one. A few months ago the LightLane personal bike path was merely a competition entry in conceptual phase. Using high powered laser beams mounted to bicycle seat posts, the light generated so much interest that the designers took it into development. Alex Tee, a...
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if you have been following this blog for a while you might have heard me talk about Diplo.  The is an amazing DJ and producer out the the states and the majority of you have heard his work believe it or not.  He was the producer behind M.I.A’s hit Paper Planes, and he also...
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Along with a New York trip comes pictures… a lot of pictures.  I dont have the time of the space to post them all so here are the artsy ones for your viewing pleasure.  I see if I can pick up the posting in the next week or so.
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I spent the last 4 days down in NYC with Meghan and a few of her school friends who where coming back from a three week school trip from down south. I saw a few cyclist riding around downtown but the majority of the bikers i saw were just tourist that had rented bikes....
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Have you ever wondered if you could make your own carbon bike frame? With the costs of carbon bikes these days you might think it would just be easier and/or cheaper to just head down to home depot, get some carbon and start shaping up your new frame…. with a few more steps of...
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Found this on the speedtheory site and i just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to post it here… Enjoy.
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Found this little song while flicking through my iTunes music the other day.  Its a amazing mashup by Minty Fresh Beats or M.I.N.T.  he took Jay-Z and mashed it up with Radiohead to make… you guessed it Jaydiohead.   you can check out the whole album and even downlaod it for free here http://jaydiohead.com/ Here is...
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On my google homepage (iGoogle) I have a link that searches google news feeds and gives me the most popular cycling articles at that moment. It a cool thing to have, and it keeps me up to date with what’s happening in the cycling world. Now that summer is here I am paying a...
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‘Maybe One Day’ by RANKIN & CHRIS This film conveys a sense of life and experience, extreme and heightened feelings as well as pensive and quiet moments. It is reminiscence, a visual diary and a document of a day. This is achieved through the journey of one man. I know i have been lacking...
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The 25th running of the annual Philadelphia International Championship will be taking place Sunday, June 7th. The 156-mile pavement pusher remains the longest running and remains the most important single-day cycling road race in the country. A starting time set for 9am, the 14.4 mile circuit with ten laps starts at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway travelling up the 300-foot-high Manayunk Wall, a street that has become...
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