Just bombarding you with good things from my Google Reader today.
Richard Fries (yes, THE Richard Fries) is in Copenhagen for Worlds and writes about the bike culture of the city and the mentality of the planners.
There is no expressway, parkway or highway in the center of Copenhagen. These planners looked around the world and realized that widening highways to alleviate car congestion is akin to punching more holes in your belt to alleviate obesity.
I give Gerard Vroomen a lot of flak elsewhere on the Internet. However, his blog is often a great read and quite insightful. He’s been writing about worlds this week, and today shares his thoughts on the Men’s race.
As I saw in 2009 and 2010 at the Cervelo TestTeam, if Thor puts an X on his calendar, he is ready on that date. He can prepare in the Vuelta, the Tour of Britain, at home or in your local spinning class, it does not matter. Thor will be ready, and a ready and focused Thor can win anything.
Obviously, I was always a Sonic kid. But this is still ILL.
(source: Super MBTA World | Circle Cat Games, from @UnlikelyWords by way of @cosmocatalano)
(via senorgif)
This is awesome – a map of submarine data cables. It combines my love of infrastructure with my love of the Internet!
(h/t smartplanet)
There is SO MUCH AWESOME in this. Aside from the hilarity of a 129.99 16 mb memory upgrade, there is also this:
Yes. A Macarena section.
I’ve really been enjoying the McSweeney’s series “Notes From an Amateur Spectator at Amateur Mixed Martial Arts Fights”. It’s a very interesting viewpoint of a sport so far removed from any that I participate in. And it’s funny, in the way that things on McSweeney’s are.
Tonight we also get to watch the debut fight from Ben McKinley, a former color commentator for this column who has a circumference of 72 inches. Ben claims that this will be his only MMA fight, a once-in-a-lifetime event that happens to take place on his wife’s birthday. His wife’s attitude about this coincidence is best described as tolerant.
I love the Wonkette for hilarious writing like this:
Barack Obama is still diligently working his way down the GOP’s War on Christmas wish list of giant white corporate castles built from the skulls of welfare recipients and two-headed glow in the dark ponies riddled with toxic-sludge-filled DNA…
It’s also the only site I’ve found that accurately parallels my own sadness.
via Obama Calls For Smog Death To Please GOP (They Still Aren’t Pleased).
Yes, an odd title for a post.
However, one of my favorite professors at UNH just posted an anecdote about working at the Portsmouth Music Hall and preparing a show for Mel Torme.
I found it entertaining.
Thanks to my Internet friend Leah who was excited that I posted a Trale Lewous animated .gif, I was informed of Nathan Barnatt and his awesomeness.
Yes, sometimes I do not know of awesome things on the Internet.
In my defense, I did watch a bunch of the Talking Classics videos a few years ago.
ANYWHO. THERE’S THIS SWEET VIDEO ALSO.
I love Yelle and dancing and remixes.