Archive for July 10th, 2008

Wheeee, I can ride a bike and type at the same time…

July 10, 2008 - 02:06 am — News

I’m typing this while riding on my recumbent exercise bike. I’ve modified an old art table so that the main chassis and pedals of the bike fit underneath, and added slats across the top of the table to hold my laptop and external keyboard and mouse steady.
It was inspired by the treadputer featured on [...]

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This is why Obama will lose.

July 10, 2008 - 12:02 pm — News

From Wired.com’s Threat Level:
The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to grant retroactive amnesty to the telecoms that aided the President Bush’s five-year secret, warrantless wiretapping of Americans, and to expand the government’s authority to sift through U.S. communications, handing a key victory to the Bush administration.
The Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama (D-Illinois) voted for [...]

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