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Talansky nearing the KOM on Flickr.A good day following the US...

Mon, 28 May 2012 23:01:49 -0400

Talansky nearing the KOM on Flickr.

A good day following the US Pro Road Championship.

The coolest tribute to MCA so far.

Tue, 15 May 2012 15:15:52 -0400

The coolest tribute to MCA so far.

I’ve been slowly making my way through...

Tue, 01 May 2012 21:40:20 -0400

I’ve been slowly making my way through this.

vintageanchor:

“I’m often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I’m running? I don’t have a clue.”
―Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

emergentfutures: The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed...

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:08:02 -0400

emergentfutures:

The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart

“Remember the good old days when everyone read really good books, like, maybe in the post-war years when everyone appreciated a good use of the semi-colon? Everyone’s favorite book was by Faulkner or Woolf or Roth. We were a civilized civilization. This was before the Internet and cable television, and so people had these, like, wholly different desires and attention spans. They just craved, craved, craved the erudition and cultivation of our literary kings and queens.

Well, that time never existed. Check out these stats from Gallup surveys. In 1957, not even a quarter of Americans were reading a book or novel. By 2005, that number had shot up to 47 percent. I couldn’t find a more recent number, but I think it’s fair to say that reading probably hasn’t declined to the horrific levels of the 1950s.”

Full Story: The Atlantic

Ze Frank is back with A Show.

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:16:33 -0400

Ze Frank is back with A Show.

Crowdsourcing sometimes makes me sad

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:02:58 -0400

The Who asked fans to submit music videos for 5.15 (IMNSHO, the greatest rock song ever).

The Who are inviting filmmakers and animators to unleash their creativity and submit a music video that does for the track what the film did for the album. The video should reflect the 1960s ‘Mod Culture’ and show inspiration from the musical and visionary journey portrayed in that era. The winning video will be produced as the official video for ‘5.15’.

Here’s the winner, “…my interpretation of The Who’s Quadrophenia album set to the song ‘5:15’”:

So the guy who didn’t follow the assignment gets the win? I’m all for coloring outside the lines, but using 5.15 as background music for a creative homage to Quadrophenia is, well, bullshit.

The other submissions weren’t any better. A note to the younger generation from someone who failed to die before he got old: Black and white footage, prop scooters and moody environmental scenes don’t reflect the Mod Culture. I mean, did any of you actually watch Quadrophenia, not that it’s all that watchable? Sexual tension, violence, self-hatred, and aimlessness were the currency of the day. Point, missed.

Well, maybe the Universal Music Group’s marketing team will steer the final video in a better direction. Or not.

MOMA on Flickr.Outside the Museum of Modern Art last week.

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:50:55 -0400

MOMA on Flickr.

Outside the Museum of Modern Art last week.

NAGASAWAROAD

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:34:27 -0400

NAGASAWAROAD

It’s time to read this again. vintageanchor: “Maybe we’ve...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:10:31 -0400

It’s time to read this again.

vintageanchor:

“Maybe we’ve been too silly to deserve a world like this.”

—Nevil Shute, ON THE BEACH

Six Eleven randonneuse & its builder on Flickr.A shot from...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:07:20 -0400

Six Eleven randonneuse & its builder on Flickr.

A shot from the 611 open house yesterday.

From one of my favorites….” vintageanchor: “Perhaps...

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:05:15 -0400

From one of my favorites….”

vintageanchor:

“Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you’re paying attention you’ll discover, often too late, that an undertow of weeks or of years has pulled you deep into trouble.”
― Joseph O’Neill, Netherland

Apparently I’ve been going about serving wine the...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:24:14 -0400

Apparently I’ve been going about serving wine the completely wrong way.

bheventspace: ‘Whether he is an artist or not, the...

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:46:09 -0500

bheventspace:

‘Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.’

~Walker Evans

Morning reading. (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:03:40 -0500

Morning reading. (Taken with instagram)

"OK, the idea that kids these days are “digital natives” is a nice, self-serving fairy tale. It makes..."

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:08:00 -0500

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OK, the idea that kids these days are “digital natives” is a nice, self-serving fairy tale. It makes tech-lovers feel good, because they feel like they are at the front of a curve. It makes educators feel good, because then they don’t have to teach a complicated and multi-level sets of skills and knowledges that they don’t have a strong grasp on themselves. It makes government types feel good because they don’t need to devote resources to it. It makes the kids feel special, and kids need that. The problem is, of course, that it’s pretty much false — saying kids are “digital natives” because they can text, send email, and use facebook (all services provided by profit-driven companies, who love this false paradigm as well), is like claiming that kids these days are all automotive engineers because they have driver’s licenses.

I teach freshmen. Most of them have the barest idea of how to use the Internet except for simple, pre-packaged tasks. They have little concept of wider issues, like selecting a tool outside of their very limited set of daily resources, dealing with privacy (which they care very much about, but don’t have the understanding to guess how to deal with it), or asking questions about the purpose of the technology. And these are the reasonably well-off kids who have had access to the web for most of their lives. Students from less advantaged backgrounds have greater hurdles.

So, yeah, forget this idea of “digital natives.” Now, a library could help them get closer to that ideal, but we are busy closing the libraries becaue the “digital natives” don’t need them. And who, I wonder, benefits from a large mass of people who can’t do anything except what the tools they are sold let them?

”

- The notion of “digital natives” is comforting, but in the end, it’s a myth.

California Dreamin’ | MetaFilter (via ayjay)

ride2curediabetes.org

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:02:17 -0500

ride2curediabetes.org:

My latest side project is live. It’s a website for multipurpose chamois cream. It soothes butts, and fights diabetes.

Dale on Flickr.Sunday was too cold and windy a day for a ride....

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:41:59 -0500

Dale on Flickr.

Sunday was too cold and windy a day for a ride. So I shot some photos instead. Fortunately there were plenty of interesting folks to point my lens toward.

Stowe Boyd: MG Siegler Says 'Most Of What Is Written About The Tech World Is Bullshit'

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:06:39 -0500

Stowe Boyd: MG Siegler Says 'Most Of What Is Written About The Tech World Is Bullshit':

An interesting change of heart, and an admission of what has been obvious to those who aren’t dependent on page view driven reporting.

stoweboyd:

MG Siegler confesses that he and many other tech writers have been doing a piss-poor job:

MG Siegler, Content Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink via ParisLemon

Most of what is written about the tech world — both in blog form and old school media form — is bullshit. I won’t try to put some…

Bottle cages

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:16:05 -0500

For the new bike, this

Photo by Rivendell Bicycles

or this?

Photo by Arundel Bike

The correct answer is not “carbon.”

Columbus Max Bikes, a group on Flickr.Lots of Max goodness. Best...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:55:56 -0500

Columbus Max Bikes, a group on Flickr.

Lots of Max goodness. Best of all, I’ll be adding my own to this group very soon.