As many of you no-doubt already know, I'm doing the AIDS LifeCycle ride in 2008 to help fight HIV. I just started soliciting donations in earnest yesterday and the response so far has been amazing. I am reposting what i emailled people yesterday, here (see below), but I wanted especially to make my friends on LJ aware that you guys perhaps more ( Read more... )

I saw this post and it broke me little biking heart, so I thought I would repost it here for the couple who owned the bike. Here's an excerpt:

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OK now Bogotá is the bike-friendliest city out there - this is really awesome:



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LJ's announcement that it is being sold to Russian company SUP - read some of the comments by various Russian users on this. LJ is so popular in Russia that livejournal is a verb for blogging, there. People are very concerned that Putin's government is going to seriously crack down on free speech.

The Register: Blogging problem child sent to gulag ( Read more... )

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you live in L.A., and you have a functioning tongue in your head, you'd be an absolute fool to overlook certain humble roadside taco trucks ( Read more... )

I know many of you don't use del.icio.us to bookmark things, but using this tool I save everything I find interesting for later examination, and it's handy. Here are some of the things I've saved in the last week or so:

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  Common Errors in English - If I see just one more "wallah" (sic) or other retarded variant thereof, I'm going to burst a vein in ( Read more... )

The Aether Sanctum, one of Australia's longest-running subcultural chronicles, has finally died. Starting out with the goth subculture specifically and later expanding to cover other sorts of darkly inclined weirdness, it began in 1995 and contained a lot of useful music reviews, mostly.

We have experienced a catastrophic hardware failure. We ( Read more... )

Ever feel like just documenting a day? Yesterday I threw a camera into my bike bag before I set off for work thinking maybe I'd see something interesting. As it turns out, there was plenty of delicious fog and even more delicious tacos!
It was a foggy old morning on Friday, nice for riding to work! This is where Fletcher Drive crosses over the LA ( Read more... )

On the week ending 13th December, 1987, the Top 50 Singles Chart looked like this (well in Australia anyway). How many of these do you know?

1. Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
   
2. Too Much Ain't Enough Love - Jimmy Barnes
   
3. Faith - George Michael (video)
   
4. Hold Me Now - Johnny Logan
   
5. Run To Paradise - Choirboys
   
6. Got My Mind Set On You - George Harrison ( ( Read more... )