Posts Tagged ‘ helmet ’

As Daughter and I were riding along the Coast Road cycle path last week, one of the many people who use it as their commuting route overtook us. I’d seen him coming up behind, and were were in single file on the left to let him pass. For some reason, he took the far...
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Way back in the mid 1990s, the buzzword was multimedia. Apparently it was going to change the way we did everything - a bit like the laser disk had done, only better. The joke going around the office was that there was an alternative translation of this: Multimeejya molti-m-iːdiə - n. Hindi word, translating as “technology with...
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Carlton Reid highlighted this article from the Wall Street Journal . Aside from a major factual error in the final paragraph… Take President Obama. When he hasn’t been mau-maued by safety fanatics, he makes sensible distinctions. On a Chicago street where he might collide with a car, he wears a helmet. For...
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Not so much in the case of this helmet, available from the Sustrans shop , which makes it clear that riding a bike is an extreme sport, only to be attempted by the brave, foolhardy, and nihilistic with nothing to lose: OK - in truth, the rest of the helmets they have do...
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I’m constantly amazed at the stuff people invent. Sometimes it’s useful, and satisfies a need to make things easier / safer / more fun / whatever. And sometimes it seems that it’s main purpose is to sell more stuff. Like this product, which surely must be a candidate for the WTF Product Of The...
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My comrade O’Brien would be proud of this. A first class piece of doublethink that encapsulates two apparently contradictory ideas. Yet by an act of will, you can see what you know to be the truth - irrespective of what’s before your eyes. Doublethink is the ability to find evidence for what...
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