The Collections of Kathmandu

from The Kathmandu Post  Hard to getHARSHA MAN MAHARJAN  – The rare book business is expanding in Kathmandu. But the sellers do not want to divulge much information, because they don’t want their competitors to know their trade secrets. So...

Mo’ Fixie Fixie

from The Washington Post Look Ma, No Brakes! Stripped-Down Fixies Have Long Been The Bike of Choice Among Couriers. Now, Hip Urbanites Have Gotten the Message. By David Montgomery What a profile they cut, slicing through the city: gorgeous, exotic, dangerous. You see...

A Red Stripe In The Coolibah Tree

from Mission Mission Tossing Beer Up Trees in Dolores Park Something I am amazed worked out: this guy climbed nearly to the top of a tree in Dolores Park, had his friend toss him up a glass bottle of Red Stripe, caught it, and proceeded to drink it.  Bad ass. [ click...

Auto-Tune on iPhone

from Gizmodo I am T-Pain iPhone App Is Auto-Tuning Genius By Jason Chen Smule, the guys who made Leaf Trombone and Ocarina, just ported Auto-Tune—the software T-Pain and Auto-Tune the news uses to make music gold—onto the iPhone. Holy crap is it awesome. [ click to...