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lugged steel nintendo wii

“NRDC and Ecos Consulting performed the first ever comprehensive study on the energy use of video game consoles and found that they consumed an estimated 16 billion kilowatt-hours per year — roughly equal to the annual electricity use of the city of San Diego.” full article here. this ties nicely into my campaign to make [...]

Dr Silvbrazen discusses the ‘Ethics of Lugs’: explorations in aesthetics, ethics, value theory, taste, applied arts, craft vs contemporary craft, industrial art, and fine art. with diversions into other stuff.

Lugs look lovely.  Let us not overlook this basic truth.  Even the crudest lug has character to it, a statement of purpose defining the form and lending a degree of individuality to even the most mass produced joint.  What is truth in art?  By calling something beautiful rather than as Kant put it, visually agreeable, [...]

cross races to drink gin at

two upcoming cross races that we are gunna spectate at:  elkridge on the 2nd of Nov, and some sorta championship in taneytown on the 30th.  who’s in?  we will not go if:  it is nice out, and has been nice for a few days.  we want mud, and broken 1000 dollar wheelsets.  rain and sleet [...]

blingee spoke card

Make custom Glitter Graphics you are not immune to the hype!

SOMA STOLEN!

Hey all, had Mel’s Soma Fabrication baby blue singlespeed stolen from our front yard last night.  It has a red suspension fork, black bits, paul levers, and so on.  Its way too rad to let go, so we’d like to get its ass back.  Holla if you find it, have tips, etc. this makes me [...]

nyte ride, probally thursday night

anyone wanna join starmer and i for a noche ride in the shed thursday?  start time will be hammered out, but the pace will be ultra mellow, and we wont go too far.  unless we get lost.  entirely possible.  and eaten by that bear.

sweet baby moses and his reed basket!

corn maze somewhere in ohio….  that’s one corn maze i wouldn’t want to get lost in. i stole this from wonkette, who stole it from someone else. if you cant read it sorta rhymes.  sarah america.   curiously they both end with ‘uh’ sounds.  sar-uh americ-uh.  is there some deeper meaning here?

8 DIY Bike Repair Stands

8 Bombproof DIY Bike Repair Stands | BikeHacks Don’t know how “Bombproof” these are, but they do look cheap.

Bianchi Fashion Partnership

trackosaurus rex – Your jeans are worth more…

Smoking Gun on the NYPD assault

NYPD Bruise – July 29, 2008