Doug LeMoine 33 connections

Halladay’s no-no over the Internet airwaves

Yesterday afternoon I watched Roy Halladay’s no-no on the Hot Corner, which is Major League Baseball’s concession to the Internet. The Hot Corner allows you to choose a single camera angle from which to watch the game, which has the advantage of showing you stuff you might not see in the... more »

A bike should look good on its own, but it’s incomplete until a person rides it

Shinya Kimura is a custom motorcycle builder, and the subject of a beautiful short profile on YouTube. more »

William H. Whyte dissects a street corner

“There’s another kind of activity that we call ‘People just standing there, alone.’ Life swirls about them, and they let it all pass by. They just ... stand there.”
From The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, by William H. Whyte. more »

Only worn when mobbin’

So I was catching up with the haps in my new city today on Berkeleyside, and I noticed a reference to yet another cool thing that originated in Oakland. No, it’s not turf dancing, or whistle tips, or ghost riding, or even hyphy. It’s scraperbikes, old beaters totally tricked out with colorful... more »

Why does cycling in SF suck more now than in 1994?

Cycling seems more dangerous, more hassle-filled, and generally more aggro than when I moved here. Why? Maybe it’s me. I moved to Berkeley recently, and I’m pretty close to having a lawn that I can tell kids to get off of. Maybe it’s that the city has changed a lot. There are more cyclists... more »

HTML5 disturbingly close to bringing a tear to my eye

Aw, man. It just got a little dusty in my office at Cooper. Seeing my old childhood home in Leawood, Kansas will do that, especially when the Arcade Fire provides the soundtrack.

It’s called “The Wilderness Downtown,” and it’s actually as technologically interesting as it is emo. (It’s... more »