If I walked into a restroom that looked like Mick Jagger lips were hanging off the walls I think I'd just turn around and keep going - JohnBfromMemphis
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I would be fearful to let my "oh boy" just dangle in between those swollen red lips. I mean, what if those teeth came crashing down!!? - Terence Washington
I predict a massive backlash against online media being "green" (which is as much of a myth as food miles and "carbon neutral") once people figure out that it's massively costly and not carbon neutral beyond the point of purchase for the duration of its lifecycle. Unlike a book which (unless you burn it) has no further direct environmental impact beyond its point of production. - Alex Murray
I will buy books until they are no longer printed, and while their print runs may get smaller, I don't see them ending in my lifetime; furthermore, I could see myself buying books that I read and enjoyed electronically, just as I often buy books that I originally read at the library. - RAPatton
@Alex sure, but I suspect E=mc^2 says that book could support transmission of that book to every human on earth, once a second, for the next 1000 years. Of course that sort of "book burning" probably isn't green either, and will lead to the universe imploding or something nasty like that, but whatever. - Wade Dorrell
@Steve: Just a correction. The Christian Science isn't going to be entirely online. Effective April 2009, it will no longer have a daily print edition, but it will print a Sunday edition (magazine style, I think). That's not to say that weekly print edition won't eventually go away, too, but that's not happening yet. - Bryan Person
It's a topic that has kept a bee in my bonnet for ages. It amazes me that it took so long to put someone into that roll given the depth of the BBC archive and its value. - Alex Murray
mrgunn - known randall for a long time, but thanks for commenting, what profession are you in? I have never met most of your friendfeed friends :) - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
biomedical research, now working for a biotech startup in San Diego - Mr. Gunn
I can see the utility of motor assist on a utility bike...especially cargo bikes. Or even for a commuter who has to tackle gnarly hills. To me, whatever gets folks on a bicycle is a good thing, though the idea of a motor on a time trial bike seems almost offensively discordant. - Chester
electronic gruppos are a prime example of solving a problem that doesn't exist. What's wrong with cables and their inherent fixability and availability? All I've read so far seems like bike trade folk getting over-excited by whizzbangs and ignoring practical realities. I may be drawing the line on how far tech needs to go. See also: weight weenies with carbon everything when pros are still riding alu bars. - Alex Murray
Bad hair in the pro peloton. Possible candidates are just about endless. Given that someone dug up an old picture of Cipo, I'm surprised that nobody, as of yet, has thrown down a picture of Ekimov and his mullet. - Chester
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"This is one of those dreadful "I was just minding my own business when all of a sudden..." answers, up there with Ron Davies "badger watching" excuses." - Alex Murray
♪♫ ♪♫Who let the dogs out! Who who who! ♪♫ ♪♫ - AJ Batac
:O :O we have a musician here ! Bravo.. A.J - Enigma
After a word from our sponsors, we'll funk it up with George Clinton's Atomic Dog, a cheerful ditty about a pooch in a nuclear accident. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)
Ya,got caught in the beam of nuclear accident!! - Shine
The BBC was once an unassailable force in British media - it had values to be emulated, resources to be envied, and viewing and listening figures of which other media could only stand by in awe. Now its judgment, or at least that of its presenters, stands in question, its resources are shrunk and thinly spread, and even its vast website has been overtaken in terms of popularity by social networking website Facebook. - Emma
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Didn't BBC only recently switch from proprietary players and such? Easy to fall the way of AOL if not careful *chuckle* - Michael W. May
I don't understand what the point of the article is, that the BBC should be more like facebook? People want different things from different sites. It seems a bit like saying "flickr should be more like youtube". - Alex Murray
Those are great. Love seeing him with his kids, he's such a great dad. - Karoli
They're very stiff for candid shots, aren't they? I'm not suggesting that they're posed, just that the first family elect appears to still be hyper-aware of media recording devices. - Soup
d'ya reckon Soup? I thought they looked much more relaxed that I probably would be considering they were waiting to find out if he'd be the next prez - Zee from WeDoCreative
Meh, no thanks. Unless he wants to set up a webcam and open a Seesmic account, I don't need to see these sorts of candid shots until after his presidency is over. Just my 2¥, of course. Your results may vary. - thepete
I'd be checking these out right now, but Flickr still has the hiccups :(((( - Iain Baker
Tony makes the point that, if Armstrong does not ride the Tour then one pretty much has to take, at face value, his stated reason for coming back to pro cycling: to raise cancer awareness. I wonder if he's going to now try to round out his palmares with other grand tour and/or classics wins... - Chester
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"A school is getting rid of textbooks and encouraging pupils to download homework onto their mobile phones instead.
The new Hackney City Academy wants to eliminate the need for heavy rucksacks and is introducing curriculum texts that pupils can access through their mobile phone SIM cards and home computers.
The scheme for 'E-books' has been launched primarily to save on the huge costs of buying and replacing hundreds of books every year." - clarke thomas
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Hell no. Give me books. Digital editions can be handy sometimes but I definitely prefer books. [Edited to add:] Give me a light-weight handheld stylish device with a gesture-sensitive touch screen so that I can rapidly flip pages (with a user-configurable animation) like a book; put my thumb down on a page, flip a bunch of other pages, then lift my thumb up and it returns to that thumbed page; pinch the upper-right corner to 'dog-ear' a page; zoom, flip, highlight, add notes, etc., all through gestures and then I'll consider dropping paper books for digital editions. - Akiva Moskovitz
This is a hamburger from McDonalds that I purchased in 1996.
That was 12 years ago. Note that it looks exactly like it did the very day I bought it.People always ask me - what did you do to preserve it ?
Nothing - it preserved itself. - Iain Baker
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The comments make it all worthwhile for me. - Alex Murray
