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Who knows, “protect and serve” might mean changing your tire the next time you flat. h/t to Dale McKeel who pointed this out on the durhambikeandped listserv.

Standing Start, a 12-minute documentary short-film on track bicycle racing, uses narration adapted from Homer’s The Odyssey to frame the significance of training, pursuit, and competition. Like Douglas Gordon’s Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait, this riveting film from the Scottish Documentary Institute looks at the some of life’s larger questions through an intimate and aesthetic [...]

Like the good folks over at the Independent, I too have recently been reading Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody, a collection of arguments and vignettes on the power of the Internet. The salient point that the Indy picked up on is how, by abolishing the high costs of printing, publishing, and distributing information, the Internet [...]

Attentive readers may notice that I’ve recently added a Creative Commons licensing badge to nicomachus.net. I’ve meant to add it for some time now, and older versions of nicomachus.net bore the badge. In the process of switching to WordPress (in 2007) and revamping the (visual) theme for the site, I lost or decided to shed [...]

It’s about f*ckin’ time. Known as “The Ugly Green Thing” on Waymarking’s website, the pedestrian bridge over the Durham Freeway is not the most attractive entrance to the Bull City. Yet, if you’re traveling up 147 from either Research Triangle Park or from I-40 (as most people coming to Durham from Raleigh would), then this [...]

North Carolina Central University will play host to WordCampRDU 2009, which as far as I know is the Triangle’s first WordCamp.* WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. WordCampRDU is a day-long event on June 13th, 2009 in Raleigh Durham, North Carolina that focuses on beginner and advanced WordPress [...]

The self-righteous tone of the comments aside, Good Magazine’s blog has a nice photo show of traffic in Los Angeles. I realize that this collection of aerial photographs of mostly single-occupant smogmobiles is probably intended to be a critique of LA’s (and thus the USA’s) automobile dependence, but these photos are visually stunning and, dare [...]

Makes any video look cool… (click the image to see what I’m talking about)

Fairway Outdoor Advertising’s attempts at wooing City Council into removing the current ban on new billboards may not be going so well. At least, not for Fairway. The billboard industry suffered a trouncing at the March InterNeighborhood Council meeting, but the City Council vote that will ultimately decide the fate of Durham’s billboards will come [...]

Discover the Rail Way on National Train Day, May 9, 2009 National Train Day is upon us and this year the celebration is bigger and better. This Saturday from 10am to 3pm, enjoy live musical entertainment and educational and interactive displays about train travel in the past, present and future, including: Exhibits you can only [...]