Wikipedia lists "Juan Pelota" as one of Lance Armstrong's nicknames. →
Joke about Testicular Cancer much?
(Via “Lance Armstrong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia”)
…in terms of raw drama, the ‘Fair and Balanced’ newsmen of dystopian-future, sci fi-satirical, shouty-porn-sledgehammer Fox News win out every time. Fox generally leans more to the right than a man who’s just had his right leg blown off.
— Charlie Booker: A British View of American News Media
The United States ranks 31st in life expectancy (tied with Kuwait and Chile), according to the latest World Health Organization figures. We rank 37th in infant mortality (partly because of many premature births) and 34th in maternal mortality. A child in the United States is two-and-a-half times as likely to die by age 5 as in Singapore or Sweden, and an American woman is 11 times as likely to die in childbirth as a woman in Ireland.
— Nicholaus Kristoff, on why America’s health system is anything but the “best in the world” (“Unhealthy America” - NYTimes.com)
It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.
— Marshall Taylor, in The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World
Japanese Engineers have found a way to convert traffic vibrations on bridges into power to illuminate the bridge.
So so so so so very cool…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1) →
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25) →
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sweet jebus…THIS has got to be one of the most epic links in the internet-world of cycling.
Includes links to full-.pdf copies of rare and hard-to-find books on bicycle history, construction, maintenance, and repair, as well as a bunch of other useful information.
Some of the titles included:
- Bicycle: The History, by David Herlihy
- The Paterek Manual for Bicycle Framebuilders, by Tim Paterek
- Barnett’s Manual (4 Volumes), by John Barnett
- Sutherland’s Handbook for Bicycle Mechanics (out-of-print)
- The Custom Bicycle, by Kolin and De La Rosa
