Do You Wanna Riiiiiiide

in the back seat of my bike and chop it up with Do or Die....

U.S. Moving Forward on Bicycle Interstate Highway System

via EcoGeek on 6/24/11

A plan that originated in the 1980s to build a system of interstate bike paths has come back to life after lying dormant for 30 years. Only two stretches of bike interstate were established back then:  U.S. Bicycle Route 1 from Virginia to North Carolina (initially planned to run from Florida to Maine) and U.S. Bicycle Route 76 from Virginia to Illinois (initially planned to run from Virginia to Oregon), but new routes may soon cover the whole country.

The Association of American State Highway and Transportation Officials has already approved six new routes. Four of these will be in Alaska, one will span Michigan's lower peninsula and one will go from New Hampshire to Maine.  Another 15 have made it past the planning phase.  The ultimate goal is to have a nationwide system of bicycle routes, and 42 states have expressed support for the plan.

If you're curious, the eight states that haven't jumped onboard yet are Alabama, Hawaii, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and South Carolina.

AASHTO has created a full map with prioritized routes marked.  It's a sight to behold.
via GOOD

Poor Lil Kitty :D

i can't help but want to do this to the wife when she won't stop talking....

Gifts for Meeeeeeeeeee???

awe, you shouldn't have!!  yes, two please!  :D




Let’s Check More Fun for Daily Life!! Crapgadget vendor Brando is really selling this horrible umbrella. It includes a sleeve and the admit that “colors may be variant” but that shouldn’t stop you from bringing this umbrella to your local police station for a bit of suicide by cop thanks to the front stock and rifle barrel tip.
It comes in two sizes, but you’re going to want the bigger one for $28.

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Seriously.

i can picture coming home to my daughter looking like this.  #truestory.

i would DIE to hear her explanation.  bc she would have one.

I's Fashiony, Bitches.

Edge of My Seat... (smoking)

Ron Paul and Barney Frank Propose Landmark Pot Legislation

via Law Blog 

AP

Members of Congress, including Barney Frank and presidential contender Ron Paul, plan to introduce a bill tomorrow that would end the federal law’s blanket prohibition of marijuana.

It will be the first such bill introduced in Congress.

Here’s a WSJ report and one from the Oakland Tribune.

The legislation proposes limiting the federal government’s role in marijuana enforcement to cross-border or interstate smuggling, allowing people to legally grow, use or sell marijuana in states that permit it.

Under the law, states would also be free to tax the drug, according to a press release from advocacy groups that was confirmed by Frank’s office, WSJ reports.

“The human cost of the failed drug war has been enormous — egregious racial disparities, shattered families, poverty, public health crises, prohibition-related violence, and the erosion of civil liberties,” said co-sponsor Barbara Lee, a Democratic Congresswoman from Oakland, according to the Tribune.

If the bill is passed, “each state would be free to make its own marijuana policy and would be solely responsible for enforcing it,”  Marijuana Policy Project spokesman Morgan Fox told the Tribune.

I Love Trickery.

Cheap or Green? Both???

somehow...  this reminds me of my cheap mother who used to buy us cereal in those horrible bags from the sad bottom shelf of the cereal aisle...

Zero-Packaging Grocery Store to Open in Austin, Texas

via GOOD

Austin, Texas is already home to Whole Foods, but that won't stop a group of entrepreneurs from founding a new grocery store right in the natural food behemoth's backyard. While the new store In.gredients will also specialize in local and organic ingredients, there's one major difference between this venture and its hometown competion: In.gredients promises to be the country's first ever "package-free, zero waste grocery store."
The idea is so simple, it's surprising that no one in the United States has implemented it yet. (The United Kingdom, on the other hand, got the bulk food-only Unpackaged in London last year). Just like many people bring tote bags to the grocery store, shoppers at In.gredients will be encouraged to bring their own containers to pack up items like grains, oils, and dairy. If a shopper doesn't have his own containers, the store will provide compostable ones. It's as if the specialty bulk food section rebelled and took over the rest of a traditional grocery store. In.gredients will replace unhealthy, overpackaged junk with local, organic, and natural foods, and moonlight as a community center with cooking classes, gardening workshops, and art shows on the side.
“Truth be told, what’s normal in the grocery business isn’t healthy for consumers or the  environment," In.gredients co-founder Christian Lane said in a press release. Americans add 570 million pounds of food packaging to their landfills each day, while pre-packaged foods force consumers to buy more than they need, stuffing their bellies and their trash bins: 27 percent of food brought into U.S. kitchens ends upgetting tossed out.
In.gredients's founders hope to open the grocery store's doors in East Austin this fall, provided that the funding goes through.

i think i have a thing for really cool bookcases. such a crush on them i have.... (i like yoda as well)

translate yo damn self.


Les designers du cabinet italien Saporiti ont crée cette bibliothèque typographique singulière. En effet, dans ce meuble se dessine les mots “Read your Bookcase”, façon d’allier l’utilité du mobilier à son design. Plus de visuels de l’objet dans la suite de l’article.

Snoop + JC = Everlasting.

Happy Anniversary!

Detroit says Fuck Your Student Loans.

see- this is what happens when people hit bottom. they find how to make amazing-ness out of dirt and rocks. take that, harvard grads.

You'd be forgiven for dismissing an amateur metallurgist if he claimed to have improved upon the presumably perfected technology of steel making. But Flash Bainite, the creation of Detroit entrepreneur Gary Cola, wowed a team of Ohio State University engineers by turning centuries of alloy processing on its head. Instead of heating the metal for hours or days, this well-equipped DIYer boosted the temperature -- quickly baking, then cooling sheets of steel that are 7-percent stronger than other forms and tougher than some titanium alloys. Flash Bainite is also more ductile than other steels, allowing it to crumple more before breaking -- perfect for absorbing impacts. Obviously this means stronger and lighter cars, laptops, and armored vehicles but, since the process takes all of about 10 seconds, it's also more energy efficient and cheaper than traditional steel making. Now, who has the number for the Nobel Prize committee?

Detroit DIYer cooks up stronger, lighter steel, shames scientists originally appeared on Engadget

True Loved.

 

Sunday Brunch

Don't Feed the Animals

via http://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/4

Pledge for Summertime

say it with me!

Death vs Life?

soooooo this lady was pronounced dead...  then sprung back alive at her funeral and shocked herself to death, again.

Like something out of a Sam Raimi movie or a really dark version of Tom Sawyer, a Russian woman who was declared dead after collapsing with chest pains awoke at her own funeral and promptly died of a heart attack caused by the shock of waking up at her own funeral. Comically tragic or tragically comical? [Daily Mail]








maybe she should have taken these sage words from the richest man in the world...

he gets to point.

"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

- Steve Jobs (via tmblg)

Lies.

this didn't work for me.

Late, but Great.

My Life.

says the wife.

Only in OH

this is so me and my girl LaRue.  all day.

Real Talk #3

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

- Isaac Asimov

I need A New Camera.

i want to marry these images.  amazing.


Le photographe indonésien Jeffrey Surianto arrive à exprimer tout son talent avec la photo. Toujours en train de capturer des visages et des paysages principalement de son pays, ses visuels aux couleurs incroyables impressionnent. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.

Heheheee

The Foot Penis

i know yoga is all the rage. check out this bounty of goodness.



Damn hippies

Fuck Yeah!

Smh @ humans.

i loved shel as a kid. his drawings are far better than his high ass poems. you can't tell me that he wasn't on shrooms or something.



Artist: Dallas Clayton

Shit I Want #2

wtf. i want this now. like- seriously? what is happening in this world?? i feel like i am on the jetsons.




Every once in a while something comes along so crazy, so unearthly cool, we have to shout it from the rooftops. Today just happens to be that once in a while, so feast your eyes on the BMW boxer engine powered Hoverbike. Framed around an 1,170cc 4-stroke BMW boxer engine that powers the twin rotors, the Hoverbike was the brainchild of Australian inventor, Chris Malloy. Malloy claims that the Hoverbike’s thrust to weight ratio should enable it to elevate to 10,000 feet and reach a speed of 173 mph (this begs the need for a good parachute and industrial strength body armor). Yowza. The rest of the Hoverbike is a Kevlar reinforced carbon fiber and foam core frame and exotic Tasmanian oak propellers. All controls are handlebar mounted, including speed, pitch, turning, vertical and horizontal travel. Using most of his hard earned funds to build this atomic salad shooter, Mr. Malloy is looking for investors and fluid dynamics engineers to bring his dream to production. In the meantime, we’ll be holding out hope for a test drive flight. To see more photos of the prototype he’s developed so far, keep reading on the next page.





Price: $40,000 (estimated)