Two words:

True story.

My question is, what do you do if you have neither a Kindle nor an iPad, but just an iPhone 4 right now? Assuming you have a limited but indeterminate budget, what do you do? Do you buy the Kindle Touch 3G (for you commuters) and an iPad for more complicated tasks/better app store/multi-format reading/own content…

If I recall correctly, the NYT ran a fascinating article about what would happen in an earthquake in NYC. It wasn't pretty.

The moral of the story is twofold:

You're right - that said, rereading the article it appears that the problem being fixed is needing lower gears, not higher gears as my system would produce.

why not? Couldn't you have a series of rings of increasingly smaller radii. I know it would look kinda unwieldy, but in CF it would still be light, yes? In other words, imagine almost a cone-like shape of hand grip rings moving out from the wheel.

Makes no sense. If you want to revolutionize the design of a bicycle, what should be done is create a design where the bottom bracket of the bicycle is shifted backwards so that the rider experiences less back strain and compression, yet is still aerodynamically viable and maintains good leverage on the pedals. In…

Far be it for me to piss on the engineering technology here, but couldn't much the same thing be accomplished by installing multiple hand grips of different radii? Make them out of carbon fiber and you solve any weight issue as well.

Forgot to mention how Voeckler is kind of a cock and the only reason he's in yellow is because he accelerated when two of his breakaway mates, Flecha and Hoogerland, got fucking run over by a car. Sort of makes chaingate look like a picnic in the park.

There's an old saying in photography - amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about money, and artists worry about light.

That's not a positive. The standard DSLR sensor is still considerably smaller than a full-frame sensor, so pixel density is still an issue, especially at 24MP.

Years ago bought myself an ASP baton (google it) purely out of curiosity. Found out later that its essentially illegal in every state. One swing of it makes one realize how lethal it could be, especially with first hit shattering the kneecap/leg, second hit anywhere you want.

I never stopped wearing a watch. Ever. Also still shoot with film, although I shoot with digital as well. Never thought it would go out of style.

To put it gently, your crush is inappropriate in other ways. This coming from somebody who worked out next to him 3x a week for a couple of years.

The guy is doing his best to try and embody every stereotype of the right-wing wannabe tough guy with a big mouth but little weiner. He gets quoted in the Times about he'd fight the war on Al Qaeda personally, yet outfits his office with surveillance cams, armed guards, bulletproof glass, alarm systems, and panics…

This is fucking bullshit. If he had gotten himself down from there, he would've lost his job, called a coward or unsupportive of ND football or whatever. And the lift, not being up, wouldn't have come down, and therefore he could never have proven himself right.

It's really unfair to compare this to the "birther" conspiracy. One has no evidence to support it, a number of completely random baseless assertions, and considerable counterevidence from various contemporaneous third parties, including newspapers and state authorities. The other is the Trig Palin story.

Jesus, is she running in Vibram Five Fingers? WTF. And yeah, hers is not the most flattering top for an otherwise beautiful woman.

I really don't give a shit what you think of me. He was not a small child; in fact he probably outweighed me, and he had three friends with him to boost his street courage, so his slur was not only offensive, it was likely meant to be menacing and to show his friends how tough and threatening he could be to random…