Willamette Week | “No Car, No Problem” | August 6th, 2008.
Article from local (to me) paper, the Willamette Week, with an example of how families can live without an automobile given the use of single-day or hourly car rental services for far trips.
My only point of contention is that I have been a car-free cyclist [...]
Keirin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
I had never looked into this form of racing before now, but after reading a few articles, watching some video, and looking at the keirin track frames featured on the many bike-porn-like gallery pages I am hooked.
From http://users.htcomp.net/gladu/%27drome/tracks/Keirin.html:
“Generally, races take place over a distance of 2000 meters. The riders begin [...]
A cloned dog, a Mormon in mink-lined handcuffs and a tantalising mystery | Mail Online.
Wow. I don’t even know what to say about it. Read.
Joho the Blog » 20 things I’ve stolen.
David Weinberger posts a snarky and topical post concerning copyright laws.
HPLHS Prop Fonts.
cthulhulives.org is giving away this amazing font pack to revive fonts used in the time of Lovecraft. Several are available for free, but the whole collection is only $20 (I’m getting mine ASAP). I’m not sure how good some of these will look if scaled to large sizes, but I already have found [...]
Impecunious. - link to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
I believe I have found an accurate descriptive word for my life. Poor, but not desperate. I don’t necessarily identify as poor, but I am often enough lacking “wealth” and living by my own resourcefulness that by other people’s standards I am likely seen as poor. Impecunious is often [...]
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