Category: hacks + do it yourself

My buddy Trevor Browne is racing the Tour Divide. What’s that you ask? “Tour Divide is a solo, self-supported mountain bike race on all 2,745 miles (4,400 KM) of ACA’s…

Biking with 5D Mark II from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo. Nice test and footage. Testing the Canon 5D Mark II with a super wide angle lens while biking on King…

How big is a Blue Whale? Now you know. Great banner ad to draw attention to this animal’s plight. http://www.wdcs.co.uk/media/flash/whalebanner/content_pub_en.html

Noticed last week when getting out of the water that one of the sewn seams on my Xcel infiniti hooded fullsuit has the thread stripped off about 2 inches on…

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Homemade Ramen Made a NYT Bittman dish for dinner last night — very yummy !! I figure total it was 3$ or so. www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/dining/25mini.html?_r=1&re…

My interpretation of the “Party Animal”. http://wonderfulbeyondbelief.com/#1

these are a few of my favorite things Photo of cupcakes (!) made by Sarah who I work with for our surprise appreciation night for Warren (the boss). Hard to…

I think I might have found the real reason I want to update my ipod (to a touch or an iphone). Genius playlists. I’m sold — Apple has done a…

Love this site of people adding designs and personalization to their OPUS RFID metro/bus cards. The design on them is ugly and this is such a great idea. “Welcome to…

This time lapse “play” is so well done — it’s shocking to think how long it took. The ride/out the window part is excellent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY

Love this old video — but what makes it worth a second watch is checking out Spike Jonzes’ original notes/ideas he came up with that they used. View them here…

Another one of those… ‘wish I’d thought of that’ ideas. |)|~@+$. MPA Roses Student Awards 2006 submission in response to the simple brief, ‘promote swearing.’ Winner of its category and…

Stunning pieces of art by my friend Judy and her boyfriend Mike (of furni fame). I mean really.. that’s some impressive work. Here’s a direct link to buy the piece…