bamboo bikes

Calfee Design's bamboo bikes are gaining ground with serious bikers - and environmentalists.

sit back and relax, it's a show! God said

I'm not sure why watching the moon disappear for an hour in an entirely predictable way would be so cool--but it was. The clouds came and went just enough to add some drama.

The moon will come back out at 10:51. The next total eclipse will be in 2010.


Learn everything you want to know about today's eclipse here.

(image courtesy of Thomas Knoblauch via Wikipedia commons)

currently reading

our irrational selves

Interesting article in the New Yorker about what goes into our choices (not always a lot of logic, apparently) from the book
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely (great title)

“Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless—they are systematic,” he [Ariely] writes. “We all make the same types of mistakes over and over.” So attached are we to certain kinds of errors, he contends, that we are incapable even of recognizing them as errors.

urban dare

It's a mini Amazing Race--run around, solve puzzles, take pictures. The next one is here in Orlando on March 8th.

more info here...

update from the comments: there is another similar race called High Trek Adventure, you can get more info here.

any others? I'd like to try one of these races this year...

Here are more urban adventure races I've found:

The Great Urban Race: includes a championship race in Las Vegas with a $10,000 prize at the end of the season

Austin Found Citywide Treasure Hunt (Austin, TX)

geek the vote

If you are interested in learning what the candidates think about a number of science and technology issues--from digital technology to science education--Popular Mechanics has the scoop here.