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The Bicycle City Trailer

Published by on April 11, 2011 | Leave a response

The Bicycle City. Trailer from Greg Sucharew on Vimeo. What happens to an impoverished developing nation town when you flood it with 20,000 bicycles? You lift three times that number of people out of poverty. Pedals for Progress and founder David Schweidenback have been shipping used American bicycles to Rivas, Nicaragua for the last two [...]

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Big in Japan…REALLY big

Published by on January 13, 2011 | Leave a response

McDonalds is introducing the equally mammoth ‘Idaho‘, ‘Manhattan‘, ‘Miami‘, and ‘Texas 2′ burgers (among others) in Japan. These things are huge and have some pretty varied and unexpected toppings (tortilla chips and hash browns to name a couple). The WSJ has the full story here. Should I (or you) find the general chumminess (check out [...]

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Expectant Mother Parking

Expectant Mother Parking

Published by on August 29, 2010 | 3 Responses

Not that I’ve been looking, but I’ve never seen this before.

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Virgin Atlantic … huh?

Published by on May 11, 2010 | Leave a response

I was recently affected by the ash plume from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano over the North Atlantic in my bid to travel to the UK. Unsure of the procedure to reschedule my flight due to an act of God, I sent to VIrgin Atlantic an email asking how to go about rescheduling. That was on 20 [...]

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A Sampling of Chinglish

Published by on May 3, 2010 | Leave a response

Funny stuff from NYTimes.com Some believe that China should embrace the fanciful melding of English and Chinese as the hallmark of a dynamic, living language. more…

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