The lanterne rouge, or red lantern, is given to the rider who finishes last in the Tour de France.
Congratulations to Adriano Malori, Italian rider on Lampre, for finishing the 2010 Tour de…
Photoblog - Pilot ejects an instant before fighterjet crashes
Molly Cameron on Contador’s attack today in Le Tour when Schleck had dropped his chain:
Everyone can attack when it is easy. You win races by attacking when it hurts, you attack when it is hard,…
The new bars on my iPhone. Those 3 bars weren’t there earlier.
The folks at the local Apple Store told me if I ordered an iPhone 4 it would be “at least 3 weeks” until it would ship. The guy at the AT&T store across the street told me “5 to 10 days.” Needing…
No, Colorado is not a Democratic state. It is, however, the only state in the country with an obesity rate less than 20%. Incredible. The WSJ reports:
Take a look at this map. See that blue…
If you dare ride your bike in downtown Black Hawk and get caught, you’ll face a $68 fine.
There are signs posted in several spots around town that show a bicycle with a circle around it and…
Travel planning like you’ve never seen before -
Kayak.com launched a new feature on their site: Explore. This site’s feature shows you a map of everywhere in the world and how much it’ll cost to fly there, with loads of filtering options and…
The first images of birds covered in oil in the Gulf of Mexico are on the Big Picture. This is just the beginning of the ecological devastation caused by the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
How long can a human live unprotected in space? -
The answer, straight from NASA.
At NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center (now renamed Johnson Space Center) we had a test subject accidentally exposed to a near vacuum (less than 1 psi) in an incident…