Just came across this brilliant Dutch student film via Copenhagenize and couldn’t wait to share for Friday Film Fun. This just goes to show you the ridiculous time, money, and effort we put up with for the “freedom” of automobile ownership. Again, brilliant.
Posts Tagged ‘bicycle’
Friday Film Fun: Computers are like a bicycle for our minds
With all the hubbub around the release of Apple’s new iPad, it’s only appropriate that we reach way back in the archives to the mid 1980s Steve Jobs for this clip showing the bicycle as the most efficient form of transportation on the planet.
Santa on Two Wheels
Santa is already at work in part of the world, but not necessarily with a reindeer and sleigh. In Vancouver, Santa has slimmed down and gone green by riding a bike. Meanwhile, closer to home Bike Friendly Oak Cliff recently organized a Dallas Santa Ride to benefit Toys for Tots. Check out these pictures from [...]
The decline of the bicycle messenger industry?
Recently, the Washington Post published an article about the decline of the bicycle courier service in Washington, D.C. In the past, messengers have depended on the delivery of filings and legal papers to maintain the business. A confluence of events including the rise of electronic filings, security increases at government buildings, and the downturn in [...]
APD Bicycle Theft Resolution Subcommittee Meeting Tonight
Reminder from Nadia Barrera at the City of Austin: This is just a reminder of tonight’s Bicycle Theft Resolution Subcommittee Meeting. Our meeting will be held at the Austin Police Department’s Headquarters building located at 715 East 8th Street, on the 4th Floor in the CompStat Room. Please enter the police department through the east [...]
Bikes used more than cars in Amsterdam, finally
Surprisingly enough, bicycle usage is just now edging ahead of car usage in Amsterdam, Bike Europe reports. I would have thought this happened years ago. AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – The bicycle is the means of transport used most often in Amsterdam. Between 2005 and 2007 people in the city used their bikes on average 0.87 [...]
Hey, isn’t that your brand new iPhone on the road back there?
As a little diversion from the usual bicycle news I am diving into tech geekdom, another topic near and dear to my heart. One thing you might not know about Elliott and I is that we both worked in the tech world long ago in another life. He worked in K-12 and Higher Education inside [...]
Did you see this car/bike collision May 4th on South Congress?
This story has been circulating on local bike mailing lists and was covered by KEYE a couple of days ago: An Austin bicyclist seriously injured in an accident is taking action against the Austin Police Department. This, after he found out the officers who responded to the scene did not file an accident report. On [...]
Accommodating Bikes at work
The top story on the Streetsblog Network today is something strangely relevant considering I was just talking to some City of Austin employees about this last night. Baltimore Spokes‘ article “Wheeling in Employees: How to Keep Cyclists Happy at the Office” has a very good overview of things that employers can do to help people [...]
Shepard Fairey designs bikes for Lance Armstrong
These pictures are posted here via Lance Armstrong’s twitter feed, so if you’re following him you’ve already seen these. The bikes look great, though, so I wanted to get them all together in one place for people who might have missed this over the weekend. Shepard Fairey, he of the Obama Poster and ‘Giant’ poster [...]
