Google All Access. "Radio Without Rules", Music streaming $9.99 pm, $7.99 pm early adopters. 30 days free. An extension to Google Music allowing clever playlists and instant access to any track in Google's library. Along with some more smarts for exploring based on your listening and library habits. USA Today. Other countries rolling out "soon".

No thanks. I've already got 30k tracks in my personal collection.
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Read this and be inspired. http://www.electricbike.com/dogmans-tale/

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Dogman's Tale »
When I started chatting on the internet, I wanted a screen name to protect my identity. So I chose Dogman because I am part dog, I speak dog fluently, and I have always had a pack of dogs around ...

Woah! Really? http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2013/May/130503sx.htm The story takes another turn. WTF is Dean Adams up to now?

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Soup :: Not That There's Anything Wrong With That :: 05-03-2013 » Not That There's Anything Wrong With That by dean adams. Friday, May 03, 2013. More than several years ago it became readily apparent to us that one factory rider was spending an inordinate amount of time with his manager. They were constantly together, both at the track and away.

Can I go back 5 years and get Moto3, 2 and GP live and in real time on Eurosport please? I don't mind if it's free to air, on BBC, on BT Sport or whatever, just as long as it's live on Eurosport as well.

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Curious idea. Electric military dispatch and SO M/C. I suppose range is key, although with quick replaceable battery packs, somebody could come and rescue you!

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Zero Introduces 2013 MMX Military Motorcycle » Zero has announced the new 2013 MMX military motorcycle designed for use in the U.S. Special Operations Forces.

Stealthy Road bike
Interesting article and thread about building a stealthy (not tm!) road bike with a Bafang SWXH rear hub motor. Kepler's running about 750w-1Kw peak through this nominal 36v-250w motor. And using anything up to 18s of Lipo from Hobbyking. One of the really neat touches is to mount the controller below the bottom bracket where it's hidden by the chain ring. The battery is hidden in a luggage bag. And most of the wires are either hidden in the frame or behind covers or chain protectors.

His only problem with the motor has been a locked up clutch. One of the comments on the thread suggests adding ATF (7-10w oil) with a syringe through a disk mount hole to deal with a similar issue.

I really like the idea of taking a 700c road bike with disk mounts and adding a 36v kit using this motor, but instead of the kit controller using one of Lyen's modified 6Fet controllers to run a 48v-10AHr battery and 15-20A peak. A 36v motor using 48v gives the extra speed. 48v at 15-20A gives the hill climbing ability and speed maintenance. The target is a speed average of 22-25mph and a no-load speed of about 27-30mph where the power drops off. That may mean getting a motor designed for a 26" or 24" rim and lacing it into the 700c rim.

http://www.electricbike.com/kepler-super-commuter/
http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=47139

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This little spat between Schwantz, Pedrosa, Puig, Dorna is just embarrassing. I've got nothing against Schwantz putting his foot in his mouth occasionally, but the others should know better than to rise to it.

However Dean Adams at Superbike Planet wading in as well is just ugly. I'm really pretty tired of his inability to forgive and forget the Pedrosa-Hayden incident all those years ago.

Just saying, is all.
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Bicycle trip. Stratford, Greenway, Beckton, Woolwich, Greenwich, Dome, Canary Wharf, Limehouse Basin, Limehouse Cut, Lea, Fat Walk to Cody Dock. Greenway, Viewtube Cafe, Tottenham Hale, Home.

Pictures and commentary over here.

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What is it with all the social media spam around E-Bikes? Pictures of the Audi mockup, the Smart mockup and now the CNet Specialized [1] article seem to be hyped endlessly by people with no obvious connection. see
https://plus.google.com/s/electric%20bicycle on most recent.

And while I'm having a moan, why don't any of the reviewers have a clue (with the exception of http://www.electricbike.com/)?

And why can't the USA (and other places) create clear and unambiguous regulations about what constitutes an unregulated, unregistered bicycle with e-assist and where you're allowed to use it? And how to test if a specific product meets the regs.

The very term "Space Age" seems antique
http://retromaniabysimonreynolds.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-frozen-frontier.html

Go back and read the science fiction of the 1940s and '50s, and you'll be struck by the vaulting confidence that this expansion would continue upward and outward, and that a new age of exploration was just waiting to be born.Today that confidence has vanished. Our Mars rovers are impressive and our billionaires keep pouring money into private spaceflight, but neither project captures the public's imagination, and the very term "Space Age" seems antique.

It's been a good year for future club music so far. A small selection of quality in no particular order:-

Cottam - Dawn Walk
Dauwd - Heat Division
Kahn - Kahn
DJRum - 7 lies
Outboxx - Outboxx
Cosmin TRG - Gordian
Sandwell District - Fabric 69
Nail - Ode Rammel
Lapalux - Nostalchic
Samuel Kerridge - Waiting For Love 1-4
Shlohmo - Laid out
Romare - Love Songs (Part One)
Youandewan - Disarray
Delta Delta - Skyway (? ? - Skyway)
A Made Up Sound - Ahead / Endgame
Natan H & Amy Jean - For Her
Synkro - Acceptance
Leon Vynehall - Rosalind
Benjamin Damage - Heliosphere
Anthony Naples - El Portal
Fort Romeau - SW9
Recondite - EC10
Various - Future Foundations
Various - Think & Change

If you like all these, you'll probably like http://whitenoisereview.blogspot.co.uk/

It's not about Tempo, Rhythmic Tendency, Bass Weight and Genre, it's about Mood.

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Really liking Cottam's style of deep house. Espesh this recent EP. Think you might like it. SeeAlso Ubuntu.
https://soundcloud.com/cottam/sets/cottam-dawn-walk-ep

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Tasting notes on Sacred English Vermouth
http://sacredspiritscompany.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=52
and Monin Pomegranate Syrop
http://www.moninstore.com/prod_Detail.html?prodID=43

OK. So, back to back with a bland middle of the road Martini Rossi. Sacred is more complex (duh!), more orange citrus and crucially more bitter. Nowhere near Punt e mes or such like but still more bitter than your average Italian V. Hence Sacred's recommended Negroni is 35ml Gin, 25ml Sacred vermouth, 15ml Aperol, 15ml Campari. So light on the Campari style bitters, light on the vermouth and heavy on the gin. Generally, It's strong tasting so you can use less of it than you would normally. And (hic!) 50ml Jim Beam, 25ml Sacred, 6 drops Angostura, 6 drops Bitter Truth Orange stirred for 40secs is most excellent! Compared with say, Caparno, it's fairly obviously Microdistilliary and in your face, where Caparno is classically elegant. My problem is that I can't get though 1L of Carpano before it goes off and it doesn't keep. So I asked Gerry's for a half bottle but they don't carry them and suggested this instead.

Meanwhile, Monin Pomegranate Sirop is extraordinary. If you stopped using Grenadine as an ingredient because it's too damn sweet, try this. Darker colour, more citrus acid, less sugary stickiness. Same kind of deal in that I ask Gerry's for an alternative to Grenadine, preferably less sweet and they suggest this. The background is a wonderful cocktail that Zetter's do called "Master at Arms". Myers dark rum, port evaporation, grenadine. When they do it, it's dry and delicious. When I try and re-create it, it's sweet and like cough medicine! Maybe that's why at Zetter's it's £8.50 with a door policy, unlike my kitchen. So what makes Pomegranate syrup into Grenadine?

via Gerry's in Soho, London http://www.gerrys.uk.com/ Where I also picked up a bottle of Portobello Gin http://portobellostarbar.co.uk/portobelloroadgin/

Sorry, what is "(post)cyberpunk" ?

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Any ideas of how to get a USB power socket on a 36v electric bicycle? How about gutting an iPod/iPhone charger and just connecting the 36v across the mains live and neutral pins? Over-driving a 12v car cigarette lighter adapter? Tapping into the throttle 5v +ve feed?
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Retrophilia is a dangerous disease that is highly contagious so please take all necessary precautions before reading these. Untreated and unchecked it can lead to Retromania and severe neck problems as the sufferer attempts to walk backwards into the future.

If you see a child or young adult suffering from nostalgia for a future that didn't happen, predicted in a past that didn't exist, from before they were born, then please report them to the relevant authorities immediately.

In recent weeks, London has seen an outbreak of Retromania after significant numbers of parents failed to inoculate their children against Right Wing Capitalism. The population had lost it's herd immunity to the dangers of unchecked greed and the longing for a golden past of certainties.

We can't be too careful or society may drown in an ocean of vintage whimsy and any possibility of creativity be lost forever.

1970s http://andwhatwillbeleftofthem.blogspot.com/
1980s http://facesonposters.blogspot.com/
1990s, 2000s http://upclosemaspersonal.blogspot.co.uk/

Not to mention,
http://moundsandcircles.blogspot.com/
http://found0bjects.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.scoop.it/t/hauntology

This post inspired by http://scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk/ via http://boingboing.net/2013/04/23/wyndhamesque-missives-from-sca.html

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I don't normally do this, but I'm going to call it. Marquez for the win.
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An interesting summary of the RSS/Atom feed reader market
http://www.rumproarious.com/2013/04/18/how-large-will-the-payed-feed-reader-market-be/

Especially note this comment:-

I wanted to determine the number of people who use RSS on a monthly basis. Also, how they use feeds is important. I only want to estimate the people who are using something that works like Google Reader. There are a lot of people who use RSS when they use something like Flipboard, but don’t know they are using RSS.
Because of course there are numerous use cases for feeds that don't necessarily look like direct consumption by an end user as relatively raw untouched content. Flipboard, Pulse, Currents are all examples of this. So too are backend services like dlvr.it

The bottom line figures.
- ~ 65m regular users
- ~ 2.6m potential paid subscribers based on typical conversion rates for current freemium services.

Of course, subscriptions are not the only possible source of income for a feed reader service. There's also adverts, selling the user interest data, selling the reader software, selling the aggregated data and probably several others.

Meanwhile, Larry Page in his earnings call talked about Google continuing to work on speculative products. But of course he didn't really talk about closing speculative products such as Google Reader.

"all I can hope is that future historians note that one of the core empirical points providing the intellectual foundation for the global move to austerity in the early 2010s was based on someone accidentally not updating a row formula in Excel."

JFC!

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