Twitter tool Twackle allows you to embed tweets from various sports categories into your website. Pick from football, baseball, basketball, auto racing, and several other sports. I picked cycling. What do you think? Annoying diversion? Or useful tool?
I seem to be fixated on weather today. The blue arrow in the map below shows part of my evening bike commute route along Middlefield Road from Palo Alto to Mountain View. The arrows at the bottom of this illustration show forecast wind direction and speed today. It should be a fast ride to the read more
Check out these upright ‘water cycles’ apparently available for rent in Venice, Italy. I can’t find anything about these bike boats on the web — has anybody seen something like this before? I’m curious how these are propelled — what’s the connection between the pedals and the paddle or propeller?
Planet Bike has Schrader valve tire pressure gauges in their catalog. These are the regular pencil guages that you can find in any auto parts store for about five bucks. What’s amusing are the customer reviews for this pressure gauge at Amazon.com, where a ten pack runs for $37. 1. “At 50 cents a piece, read more
During our epic rainstorm here in northern California a couple of weeks ago, I was a little bummed because my usual shoe drying solutions are no longer available. My ski boot & glove dryer I used to keep in the office caught on fire, and the other office standby — a hot CRT computer monitor read more
I’ve enabled Google Social and Google now (occasionally) returns results from my “social circle” to, theoretically, get the latest dirt on what my friends are talking about. I typed in “Tour of California” for example, and Google Social returned Steephill’s 2007 AToC dashboard, my Sacramento photoset from earlier this year, and a call for volunteers read more
