Rules of news-browsing

1. When reading an American newspaper or magazine, always read any article that mentions Canada, if only for the novelty of reading about Canada in an American newspaper or magazine.

2. When reading any mainstream newspaper or magazine, always read any article that mentions bicycles, if only for the novelty of reading about bicycles in a mainstream newspaper or magazine.

...and following from rule #2, while reading a Canadian news site (thus making rule #1 inapplicable), I came across this bizarre way of riding across America. It looks like he's spinning pretty well, but...what muscles is he using?

Odd how the BBC can put things in perspective

I guess it's been a long time since I've seen or done something that seemed completely improbable or unlikely or oddly profound.

Oddly enough, then, coming across this clip from Top Gear, the BBC show putatively concerned with cars, set me back a little.



Not to mention that it made my inner engineer a bit giddy.

Oh, hell, if the BBC is going to post it up, might as well put this good bit of editing and trivia in, too:

I loves me some data

This is where I live.

Try searching your own zip code. It always seems that some numbers are obvious while others can be a surprise. Around here, too, it can be interesting to look at the differences between neighboring zip codes (like 94611 vs. 94609).

9 min diversion: Canadian cyclists on the loose in China

Canadian trackies starting in Sydney and arriving in Beijing for the World Cup track events in December, 2007.