More Than Toilette Fodder

May 30 2007

I recently received the first four copies of Rouleur, the gorgeous black and white cycling quarterly put out by the British cycling gods of style, taste and elegance, Rapha.

Rapha has long held my interest — their aesthetic is exactly what I had been looking for in cycling clothing for a long time. However, their prices have caused some controversy, but I say that you’ll pay for quality anyway so while I can’t quite bring myself to buy most of what they sell, I do appreciate quality when I see it.

MASH: An Interview with Garrett Chow and Jonathan Burkett

It’s funny how this in-depth interview is very much in line with how I’ve transitioned from riding track bikes to racing and riding other kinds of bikes.
Pantone™

Ty Lettau is photodocumenting Pantone™ colour chips to objects, surfaces, whatever.
Draplin vs. USA

America is f@#ked. Brethren Aaron James Draplin in his own words. Amen, brutha.
Obama's Running Mates

From our good friends at the Busy Beaver Button Co.
Kanye West's LA Abode

Restrained in a good way. No gaudy CRIBS type excess, unless you consider his high taste and mix of pop and couture excess.
Feist Does Sesame Street

1, 2, 3, 4.
How the NYTimes iPhone App Icons Came to Be

Lovely work, in black and white and grey.
Mozilla Labs

The redesign of Mozilla Labs that I did recently is now up and running.
I'm now reading a story on microblogs

Andrew and I were interviewed for an article about Twitter recently. It’s now live on the Chicago Tribune website. I sound like a buzzkill at the end. In a good way, to me, anyway.
Ten Things Men Need to Stop

“Talking about sports using war analogies – athletes are not ‘warriors’ and the court is not a ‘battle zone.’ and “Drinking light beer. There is nothing good about light beer, especially when it’s called ‘lite.’ Our taste buds are one thing – why do you have to assault the English language as well?”

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