After the post about the Errol Morris commercial for Miller, some folks pointed out even more beer companies using bikes to sell their brews. The New Belgium Brewery in Colorado produces a Fat Tire Ale, and they have a whole series of commercials to go along with it. My favorite is the longer one entitled [...]
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Albert Camus argued that artists bear a moral responsibility to engage politics with their art. He challenges artists to “create dangerously” and use creation as a medium for social criticism. There is some honest, heartfelt, critical music coming out of Katrina’s aftermath. The Legendary K.O.’s “George Bush doesn’t care [...]
Getting a free iPod sound too good to be true? Wired Magazine recently conducted a study of the FreeiPods.com program and concluded that it’s more or less legit. You have to jump through some hoops and sign up for at least one fee-based service, but anything you sign up for: 1) you can cancel with [...]
Phillip Barron The Herald Sun September 22, 2005 DURHAM — This July, my nephew visited from Canada. Matt, 15, is a skilled athlete – a hockey star, a track phenom, a confident snowboarder – and like most teenagers, difficult to impress. As often as he’s heard me talk about mountain biking, though, I realized this [...]
The Common Sense Foundation has a new public service announcement on the need for a moratorium on executions in North Carolina. At the heart of the increasingly popular moratorium effort is the fact that at least four innocent people have been sentenced to death in this state. A moratorium is simply a pause on executions, [...]
–my comments at the public hearing – Good morning. Thank you for setting aside time in your schedules to listen to the public on this issue. I’m dressed a little differently than the rest of you because I just biked here. Several other riders and I started in Durham this morning to ride here and [...]
Two nights ago, I endo’d on a trail network I consider easy, over a log I’ve hopped hundreds of times. Came down right on my head. I’d rather have dents in my helmet than in my head.
Phillip Barron The Herald Sun September 8th, 2005 DURHAM — As if North Carolina didn’t already have a hard enough time combating air pollution, a new federal ruling may allow neighboring, upwind states to off-load soot and other particulate pollutants on the Tar Heel State. In July, Attorney General Roy Cooper filed a lawsuit in [...]
The last time images like this, images from the United States, hit the international news, the Civil Rights movement of the 50s really picked up momentum. The U.S. was publicly embarassed to have the truth of its racist, classist government policies exposed so clearly and so openly. I can’t help but think that emergency response [...]