A couple of cool little bits and bobs in my RSS reader today - Knight Rider GPS, Simpsons Maps for Quake lll and some wicked little viral ads by Levi’s (pictured below)

On Saturday I was involved in a cycling event called the Smithfield Nocturne. The idea for the day was to have all types of cycling events round Smithfield Meat Market – the race I was involved in was the ‘folding bike race’ in which everyone gets dressed up in work wear then runs to their collapsed bike on the start line, unfolds it then does 4 laps round the market.

Unfortunately although I had a great start and was 2nd out of 30 cycling off the start line, I ended up going too fast down the hill and ended up crashing on the first corner on the first lap!

So it ended up being a very short race, but I managed to find myself in a few photos from other people’s flickr accounts which was pretty cool (I’m the top result under the flickr search “smithfield crash”!)

Went to watch Iron man the other week, it actually had some quite nice bits in it - but as predicted wasn’t the most amazing of films. However I found this wicked site on people who have actually attempted similar robot type-suits in real life, this is my favourite attempt, General Electric’s ‘Hardiman’:

“In 1965, General Electrics was the first to try creating an exoskeleton for humans. But the first iteration went berserk — kicking, bucking and gyrating so much, they never chanced it with a human inside. The project was scaled down to an arm that would be able to lift 750 pounds, enough to load up a bomb onto a plane on an aircraft carrier. Big problem, though: The arm itself weighed 1,500 pounds, far beyond anyone’s capacity to handle it. The idea was scrapped”

A great story on BBC news this morning: Australia says sorry

… Very funny (though very mean) video of someone walking through the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with one of those ‘TV be gone’ universal remotes. Watch video

This is interesting: Alfonso Cuarón, director of “Children of Men”, and Naomi Klein, author of “No Logo”, present a short film from Klein’s book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” Watch the film here (warning: contains some disturbing imagery) or find out more info at http://www.shockdoctrine.com

If you’re a mac user check out this lonnnng list of keyboard shortcuts, nice.

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