moonlog tumbles

Jul
9th

Thu

…because people like things on a stick and the bigger the stick, the more impressive it is.

— Richard Crossley, tornado potato fryer.

Jul
8th

Wed

BCycle I hope this bicycle-sharing service is as nice as its website!

Jul
7th

Tue

Korean-Inspired 'Cram Schools' Still Pile on Tests But Also Help Young Students Navigate U.S. Lifestyle You can take the Korean out of Korea, but you can’t take her out of the hakwon her parents are forcing her to go to apparently.

Bleeding Signs. (Via GGW.)

Jul
6th

Mon

Google Voice

Oh, number portability maybe, too?

I’ve been waiting for Google Voice to go gold for months. I seriously hope that this service revolutionizes the whole telephone industry for the better.

And if the number portability does turn up, I’ll have to make a choice — new D.C. number or keep the Old Virginny number.

Northern Virginia is the New California? The only thing I can really get behind is the Asian food. Virginia blows D.C. away, with Maryland in a distant better-than-D.C.-and-suburban-America-in-general category. But I’ve heard that California Asian food blows the east coast away and may actually be better than Asian Asian food.

Jul
4th

Sat

Jul
1st

Wed

Women [on bicycles] are dismissed as frivolous and their absence is mourned not because of the missed opportunity to allow them to discover an activity that can improve their quality of life, but because their presence would improve the scenery.

— Trisha of Let’s Go Ride a Bike, responding to the recently growing obsession with (1) lack of girls on bikes and (2) pretty girls on bikes.

National Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project I volunteered to count trail users on Independence Day. Come and be counted between noon and 2pm; I’ll be here.

Arlington County government no longer buys bottled water

Wow, Arlington is taking a stand:

In a resolution, the Board said that the transport of single-serving bottled water ‘involves burning massive quantities of fossil fuels.’ Millions of such bottles are not recycled they have become ‘a prime source of litter and pollution in the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers,’ the Board noted.

Let’s raise our glasses (of better filtered tap water). (Link via GGW.)