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This Is The Kit | Spinney | A Take Away Show (by LaBlogotheque)

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:35:05 +0000

This Is The Kit | Spinney | A Take Away Show (by LaBlogotheque)

Flying People in New York City (by ChronicleNYC)

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:12:04 +0000

Flying People in New York City (by ChronicleNYC)

“Don’t ask, ‘What do you think of my bloomers?” - A...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:53:37 +0000

“Don’t ask, ‘What do you think of my bloomers?” - A List of Don’ts for Women on Bicycles circa 1895.

I’ve seen Rock Shox used for Paris-Roubaix before, but...

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:10:15 +0000

I’ve seen Rock Shox used for Paris-Roubaix before, but never a fully suspended road bike…

(via Velominati › Guest Article: Anatomy of a Photo-1994 Paris-Roubaix)

How good was the 2011 Tour de France? It was this damn...

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:07:21 +0000

How good was the 2011 Tour de France? It was this damn good.

(clip by 618PRODUCTIONS1)

nickrearden: Clever graphic showing which muscles are...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:36:44 +0000

nickrearden:

Clever graphic showing which muscles are responsible for what portion of pedal stroke…hate posting things like this without credit but it’s not clear whose work this is. Well done you, anyway.

Merry Christmas, you lot! Now enjoy Advertising With Bells On...

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:31:13 +0000

Merry Christmas, you lot!

Now enjoy Advertising With Bells On (by fold7) - Best. Christmas. Video [fromanagency]. Ever.

The World Famous Kalle Lind pointed me in the direction...

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:11:00 +0000

The World Famous Kalle Lind pointed me in the direction of Mouseflow. A tool that lets you see heatmaps, click confetti and watch realtime mouse tracking of your site’s visitors. It’s a bit weird, but I can see the benefits of usability studies without the need for one-way glass. You’d need to make sure it was covered in your site’s privacy terms, but I still feel a little ooky and voyeuristic watching the playback despite not really collecting any data we’re not already getting through Google Analytics or CrazyEgg.

What do you think?

"New York cyclists are a tribe. Within any tribe, there are distinctions. We parse our smallest..."

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:22:29 +0000

“New York cyclists are a tribe. Within any tribe, there are distinctions. We parse our smallest differences and look down on one another, even as we look down on everyone else.”

- The Breakdown via Nick Rearden (“34 x26” aren’t his vital statistics)

"What were all these people waitin for. He told me it was for a apple phone or some such. I said dont..."

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:23:00 +0000

“What were all these people waitin for. He told me it was for a apple phone or some such. I said dont these folks have telephones already?”

- Well, when you put it like that…

Cormac McCarthy: “The Apple Store”

"Digital is the infrastructure, the plumbing and wiring, but social is the behavior and quite..."

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:52:16 +0100

“Digital is the infrastructure, the plumbing and wiring, but social is the behavior and quite possibly the glue.”

- This is the bit that makes my job get even more interesting every day…

How Social Digital Is Your Company? - David Armano - Harvard Business Review

thebestseatintheworld: The Best Seat In The World A documentary...

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:45:00 +0100

thebestseatintheworld:

The Best Seat In The World

A documentary about Herne Hill Velodrome. The track has known some hard times with its main building now closed-down due to deterioration and political feuds that stopped any long term redevelopment. This is the back drop to a series of moving interviews with cycling enthusiasts ranging from a 1948 Olympic medallist to eight-year-old track users who all want the track to stay open.

Film Screening at Look Mum No Hands, Saturday October 8th, 7pm, 2011

"Five years ago, the iPhone didn’t exist. It wasn’t a need in your life. You were able to live..."

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:10:24 +0100

“Five years ago, the iPhone didn’t exist. It wasn’t a need in your life. You were able to live perfectly without it. And now that it does exist, all of that is true.”

- Continuing the theme, with a slight twist…

You don’t need the new iPhone

"When I had an iPhone, the Internet was no longer a destination; it was on me every day, like a piece..."

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:29:44 +0100

“When I had an iPhone, the Internet was no longer a destination; it was on me every day, like a piece of clothing I put on first thing in the morning. When I get tempted to return to that life, I ask myself: Do I really want the Internet to be something I feel naked without?”

- Why I Dumped My iPhone — And I’m Not Going Back

Uncomfortable reading for me. It’s a thought that’s occurred more than a couple of times in recent months. The iPad’s gone already. Could I… could I…?

Own A Colour And Help Save A Child’s Life I see a lot of...

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:24:00 +0100

Own A Colour And Help Save A Child’s Life

I see a lot of innovative online fundraising activity in my day job. This one from Unicef is just so perfect in its tone, lack of friction and surprising lack of emotion I had to put my hand in my pocket and own a colour. It’s so perfect for the corporate partner too.

In case you’re wondering, it’s Flaming Titian.

Two suggestions:

Accept paypal. Not having to put my hand in my pocket, fish out my wallet, pull out my card and then type in three unmemorable numbers is just polite.
Having a non-JS/non-Flash version isn’t just a good idea for awkward gits, but it gives something prettier for Tumblr to extract when people want to post a link to it :)

And not a heart-string-tugging image of kids in peril either… whatever next.

Your turn now - leave a comment below with links to the colours you’ve bought, and why!

her0inchic: A boy left his bike chained to a tree when he...

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:43:00 +0100

her0inchic:

A boy left his bike chained to a tree when he went away to war in 1914. He never returned, leaving the tree no choice but to grow around the bike.

Warning: this video will make your brain go a bit funny…...

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:52:24 +0100

Warning: this video will make your brain go a bit funny… (by RaphCoudray)

An excellent XKCD today. I’ve always been adamant that I...

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:37:21 +0100

An excellent XKCD today. I’ve always been adamant that I wouldn’t go on a wine tasting course - by living in ignorance to the world of high-end booze, I’m saving myself the need to spend fortunes on vintages.

Bike bits, on the other hand…

(via xkcd: Connoisseur)

"But the second thing he explained to me was more subtle and way more powerful. He explained that I..."

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:09:02 +0100

“But the second thing he explained to me was more subtle and way more powerful. He explained that I should start working on a project as soon as it was assigned. An hour or so would do fine, he told me. He told me to come back to the project every day for at least a little bit and make progress on it slowly over time.”

- A VC: Subconscious Information Processing

The Rapha Continental began in 2007, driven by the idea to...

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:40:47 +0100

The Rapha Continental began in 2007, driven by the idea to discover, or perhaps rediscover, the lost art of cycling. Too many riders that we knew had started to lose sight of why we love to ride, slipping into a racer’s mentality and putting our focus on measuring watts, counting calories and doing ‘efforts’. Don’t get me wrong, many of us excitedly pin numbers to our jerseys and line up each week but we’d reached a point where somehow the ends didn’t seem to justify the means.

Love them or hate them, Rapha make some stunning films.