December 2010
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Gamers for Giving →
An awesome non-profit organization called Gamers Outreach Foundation takes video games and uses them in ways that help people out! We fund the construction of portable gaming carts for hospitals, send video games to troops overseas, and host online gaming tournaments to benefit various charities.
Check out the Gamers Outreach website. Gamers... →
Sorry, parents – video games are good for the mind...
By Ben Coxworth
19:09 September 16, 2010
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One of the test subjects playing an action video game (Photo: J. Adam Fenster, University of Rochester)
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The U Rochester researchers tested two groups of 18- to 25-year-olds, none of whom were regular gamers. One group played 50 hours of the fast-paced gamesCall of Duty 2 and Unreal Tournament, while the...
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It's becoming a bit of an obsession
So it all started last fall. The Tour D’Troit was quickly approaching and my bike was all primed, tuned and ready. Well I had already committed to doing the video for this years tour so riding was not going to happen for me this year. A friend of mine owns a bike shop that was involved with the tour and asked if I could do them a favor. No doubt. She asked if someone could use my bike in the...
Anonymous asked: You guys are crazy. You're selling t-shirts that could be made at home with transfer paper and an iron --- for $25.00 dollars.
You want $55.00 dollars for a simple hoodie that cost $10 dollars at KMart. No offense, but good luck selling that crap even to your friends.
You want $55.00 dollars for a simple hoodie that cost $10 dollars at KMart. No offense, but good luck selling that crap even to your friends.
Well that was indeed "RAD"
So I began my bike film watching marathon and like I promised I started the festivus off with the BMX classic “RAD”. Now I must admit that I had seen the movie a good 20 times or so. Like every red blooded american kid in 1986 BMX and freestyle biking was the fad of the time and I like hundreds of thousands of other kids was in. I remember getting my first race plate, keep in mind I...
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Zip Tie Snow Tires: The Cheapest Way To...
It’s officially that time of year, with snow and slush and ice perpetually impeding your biking. What to do? Well, if you’ve got a box of zip ties and feel like getting your MacGyver on, you do this.
Fritz Rice of the Dutch Bike Co. is the clever rider behind these makeshift snow tires, and while he admits they look a bit silly (and that some fixie-riding hipsters may have...
Let me first thank everyone for taking the time to check out Bikes & Murder. A lot of time and effort and time has gone into making this happen. I could go on about how this whole thing came to be, but I’d rather have you look around the site and see what we’re all about. We will have a lot of stuff going on here from blogs about the bike culture and world in general, event...
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Criterium Detroit City →
CDC (as we lovingly refer to it) wants to promote the city as a great place to live, play, work and race. The crit in downtown Detroit will host USAC racers of all ages, abilities along with a very exciting kids race and Fixed gear category! July 9th 2011. We’re holding a criterium, or crit for short, which is a style of bike race that usually takes place on a circuit of closed downtown area...
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I really am into this...REALLY!
tjeerd veenhoven’s ‘iFan’ the ‘iFan’ prototype represents another original approach to technological production, allowing an iphone to be charged exclusively on wind power. the hardware consists of a custom rubber case to which a modified computer fan is attached; it currently takes six hours to charge the battery to completion. ‘iFan’ in use ...
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IKEA gives employees bikes →
IKEA gives employees bikes
We’ve heard of companies rewarding their employees and recently that has come in the form of a Bicycle.
Last October, Blue Ribbon’s owners, the Bromberg Brothers, gave their workers 200 bikes to keep and use on the MS ride.
Now, I heard through Urban Velo that IKEA is giving employees over 12,000 bikes.
Read more here.
December 8th, 2010 | Tags: Bromberg...
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The Cool Kids not sleeping at all!
