Archive for January, 2007

Hillarycare

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.

I’m just sayin…

smoke up

potentially great news from the New Scientist

It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.

It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.

Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks.

but I’m taking it with a grain of salt…

Biking while high

Literally…

From Mike Werner

gun free UK

Further proof that prohibition doesn’t work, from our neutered friends in the UK.

Labour has been accused of losing control of gun crime as new figures show a sharp rise in armed robberies.

Guns were used in 4,120 robberies last year - a 10% jump - including a 9% rise to 1,439 in the number of street robberies where guns were used.

There was also a rapid and unexplained increase in the number of times householders were confronted in their own homes by armed criminals. Residential firearms robberies show a 46% leap, a record 645 cases in England and Wales - up 204 on the previous year and four times the level recorded in 2000-01.

The figures come a day after two men armed with a replica gun robbed a Home Office worker on his way home after sharing a curry with Home Secretary John Reid. The 29-year-old civil servant was making his way home in Beckenham, Kent, shortly before midnight when he was attacked.

We hardly knew ya.

oops, your jumbotron crashed

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Poor poor Enfields

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it’s things like this that make the baby Jesus cry.

From Reason 

On BMW bikes and extremes

Walking in to the Cycleworld show, I had never even considered one of those expensive, gizmo-rific, yuppie BMWs.

Walking out, I knew I had to have the F650GS. I sat on it and I was hooked, friggin Germans and their goddamn great engineering.

So today I’m doing my homework, looking at reliability, pricing ($~8000USD. yes for the whole thing!) and reading boards by riders and modders when I came across this.

Paul “IceMan” Mondor is a F650 rider from Victoria, BC (that’s Canada for us Americans… you know that place up north where they talk funny) that (at the time) was inquiring about the possibility of doing a cross Canada trip on his F650.

Sounds easy right? How about in January?

Paul Mondor Route

Well, he did it!

NYC Cycleworld pictures

Looks like I’m gonna need a fairly sizable loan…

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The Royal Enfields are awesome, but for some reason, Triumph was missing from the event, WTF?

more to come…

Milton Friedman

Pieces of Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose are available here as well as details on how you can win a “challenge the status quo” challenge and take home $5000.

Sometimes I wish I had more free time…

NYC Cycleworld show

Okay, so maybe the Lion beat me to it, but I’m off to the motorcycle show tomorrow.

If you’re attending look for me, I’ll be the guy drooling at the Royal Enfield booth.

Individual rights

Gunner has an interesting scary quote from Attorney General Gonzales on individual rights to habeas corpus
Another unintended consequence of the collective rights crowd.

onNYTurf: NYC Subway Google Map Hack

onNYTurf: NYC Subway Google Map Hack

Finally a proper NYC subway map, using the Google API

Lady Liberty

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still trying to import

content from the old blog… grrrrrr

in the meantime here’s a picture of a doggy

harry the dog
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