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One of the things I dig about the idea of MTB Street riding is that there’s the possibility for for a different mindset to look at familiar terrain.  Danny Macaskill’s April 2009 video is still pretty awe inspiring to me for just that reason.

This, however, is just kind of a guy who put some pegs and a rigid for on his 26″ and proceeded to shoot another BMX street video.  That’s kinda disappointing, really (the above bar height double peg at ~:50 was kinda impressive).   I don’t want mountain biking to be just BMX with bigger wheels, but it seems to be going that way.

Wiosna 2010 from Kolor on Vimeo.

/Found on Plussize BMX/

Evil Genius

Apparently a new iPhone was announced, like every previous iPhone it mostly contained stuff that other phone manufacturers already offer, just done up with a pretty bow, and the crushing, capricious, iron fisted control of Cupertino, which thinks you’re stupid.

The actual big inews of the week however was Lex Luthor’s Steve Jobs’ Lex Luthor’s announcement of the iAds program.  In short this is a system by which developers can pay Apple a large minority of their ad revenue to have “fun, innovative, interactive”  (they forgot unskippable, they always forget unskippable) advertisements for their iPhone/iPod/iPad/iYoMomma applications. There was much fanfare.  Much more so that when The Brain Steve Jobs The Brain announced Safari Reader, a new feature in Safari which strips all of the ads/graphics out of a website and just presents it as text.

Thus breaking internet commerce as we know it.

Actually, that’s not fair, I mean, I’ve had ad blocker plus installed in Firefox since there’s been a Firefox, in typical Apple fashion all they did was take something that already existed and said, “look, PRETTY!!!!!”  But, no, to understand the trick Dr. Anton Sevarius and Co. actually pulled off you have to look at the two products together.  Go ahead, look at them.  Looook at them.  Look at them.

OK, look, I don’t have all day here, what Dr. Sivana and his minions here have created is a system in which the only way advertisers can get their web apps seen on Apple products is to pay Apple and the only way web content creators can get their advertisements seen on apple products is to have an app in the app store.  Which means they have to both pay Apple and jump through Apple’s ridiculous hoops.  Apple have not only have created a walled garden, but they’ve created a walled garden that people have to pay to get into, pay to stay inside and pay to get annoyed by, all things that you could do for free.

This deserves a slow clap, really, brilliant.  And before someone says “but iAds will offset development costs and thus bring down the cost of applications.”  Yeah, cable TV  was supposed to be commercial free, how’d that work out for you?

Blonde Ambition

You know what America loves?  Semi-attractive, blonde, White girls.  It never fails, if something happens and it involves a sorta cute, but sorta not or above blonde, White girl the media is all over it.  Don’t believe me? (more…)

I caught this on Gizmodo.  I think it’s interesting that guys are starting to use this insane technology to film at around the time when people are training themselves to watch video on envelope sized windows.  Still, even on a 4″ wide window on your computer screen this video is breathtaking.  Will this make it to BMX?  Not any time soon.  Would it be cool?  Yeah.

Older than your mom, hotter than your girlfriend.  Bow down to Pam Grier

I stole this from Funny Exam Answers, because it is funny.

Yeah, look, I know, I’ve been light on the content.  I’ve had stuff going on of the familial emergency type.  I will make it up to you with a video of the best drummer ever.

No, not Neil Peart.

Not Dave Lombardo, Shannon Larken, Scott Rockenfield, Billy Cobahm, Mike Portnoy, Gene Krupa, Animal from The Muppet Show or even (snicker) Lars Ulrich.

No, this guy.  Watch and be amazed.