Armstrong goes with Astana team's testing - why double up when you don't have to? Will ppl now say it's not independent enuff? http://ping.fm/J4qIY

Small sample but US bike dealers report upswing in high end: http://ping.fm/xDIQZ

Before Google we loved Altavista. There's little to stop us switching again: http://ping.fm/2j0XR

More photoshopping - an ancient cockatoo that's survived the heat: http://ping.fm/QRmSF

Doing my photoshopping - here's an orb weaver despatching a bee for lunch: http://ping.fm/skCgp

Harvard blog on 'smart' vs 'dumb' growth: http://ping.fm/b9lTf

Google and IBM offer to WiFi your medical devices and store data globally: http://ping.fm/j4FVa

In denial: UK motoring magazine thinks 30mpg is good enough for a bloated fast 1.5tonne medium/small car: http://ping.fm/cOwvN

How about an Indian-built laptop for $20 now, hopefully $20 later? http://ping.fm/XHLm1

Google's Latitude maps and tracks your presence: http://ping.fm/OU59D

Desperately flakey uptake figures on Blu-ray takeup in Oz, 80% of which are actually PS3 sales: http://www.smh.com.au/news/digital-life/home-entertainment/articles/bluray-takes-off-as-prices-drop/2009/01/30/1232818694763.html

Enhanced GPS stalking tools, or a reassuring way to keep track? http://ping.fm/OvajI

What I could do with 20 Petaflops... well video editing would be quicker: http://ping.fm/uVagf

wordy insightful piece on crime, punishment and US cyclist Jock Boyer: http://ping.fm/GWtta

Instant cred. New pre-worn guitars from Fender: http://ping.fm/jfdgG

Excellent article on Canberra riders like Rogers, Hayman, Stephens: http://ping.fm/qsuwa

Interesting first-hand account of the Mascot road rage court case: http://ping.fm/RTpL0

I finally saw those baby Koels and they are actually juvenile Channel Bill cuckoos.. http://ping.fm/OVtM7

Why stop at software-related patent reform - what about IP law generally? http://ping.fm/SOtPh

Graeme Brown finally got his win at Le Tour Down Under: http://ping.fm/ZyQIx

I do like that ping includes video... just so hard to choose btween these social micro-blogr tools!

It's just like I said...

...on bikes, bicycles and bike racing...

...on sustainability, business, gadgets and more...

...on images...

...and on why we are here...

Stephanie Dosen

Lost cities...

If you think that our cities and civilisations are going to be around forever you should check out what we've lost...

OK, how about Metacafe?

Along the lines of searchable video databases there is also Metacafe.

Blinkx is a must-know

Blinkx promotes itself as the most advanced video search engine on the Web. So does it work? Yep, seems to. Also has a cool Pico-bar that monitors what you are doing and feeds you suggestions... hmmm. I think I'll leave that option alone for a while.

But what does it mean?

I just dug this out of the "This Week in SCIENCE" emails from AAAS, from May 12 2006, 312 (5775). The AAAS says: "Not So Fast...The strength of the Earth's magnetic field has decayed since accurate measurements began in 1840, and these changes have led to speculation that the field will disappear or reverse within this millennium."

Which would be pretty scary. We'd either have no north/south poles or our north would become south and vice versa. You can imagine how confusing and dangerous that alone would be... but whjat of electronic gizmos in general and the potential for not just pole reversals but concomitant electromagnetic field disturbance?

Anyway (this was back in May, 2006 remember)they (the researchers, Gubbins et al) have devised a method to use paleointensity measurements in conjunction
with directional information to extend the record of the Earth's magnetic
field back to 1590. Contrary to the recent steep decline, they find that
the dipole moment fell hardly at all until around 1800. So there. It may not be moving so fast after all. Still, it's something to watch.

BBC Languages site

Here's an excellent resource - the BBC Languages site...

Lost? Try this map...

It's a map of the Internet, folks. Now that's gotta be useful...

Where the bloody hell are you? (As the saying goes...)

Music: a wealth of Who resources

Can't help myself... some sites worth reading that relate to Pete Townshend and the Who...

1. Pete's partner... Rachel Fuller on Wikipedia
2. Rachel's excellent, audio-fied site on Myspace.com
3. In the Attic TV - videos of Rachel, her interviews and perhaps some Pete as well
4. A Frappr map of Rachel's fans
   
5. The Kids are Alright: lots to read here about the progeny of rock stars, but my interest was in Emma Townshend
6. A quote from the above link: 'Before signing to East West records, Emma studied for a masters and history of science PhD, and taught undergraduates at Cambridge for two years. She is shameless about her reasons for giving that up. 'I know this sounds terrible, but it's crap money,' she says. 'And if you've grown up like I grew up and gone on really nice holidays, when you're working and you can't afford to go anywhere, you think, "I can't live on the amount of money you get paid for teaching!" '
7. Cambridge? It seems Emma's teaching at Oxford now
8. Review of Emma's Winterland album here on TWAS
   
9. Longliverock.org
10. An interview (in text form) with Pete on Sirius radio.
    

What we all thought was true after all, is

Have you ever, like me, wondered why slouching in a chair - lying back well beyond the usually-suggested straight-back 90 degree angle - feels so good? Ever felt the back relax when in that position? Well guess what - the 'sit up straight' school of posture control is bad for you. Mind you, at the recommended 135degrees you do tend to slide forward and risk disappearing under the desk... but gee it's comfy! From the BBC...

I've been writing on myths and legends

When I'm not writing about bikes, cars and business I'm either adding to the Sydney in the 70s Gallery or writing about mythical creatures. Well, you've got to have a hobby or 5, haven't you?

The 70's stuff comes about because I'm slowly scanning all of my old negatives. I'm over the 1,000 mark at this stage... it's a bit tedious but rewarding, revisiting one's distant past! And the mythical creatures? Well Roman and Greek mythology has interested me for 40 years or so, and now my kids are getting into it as well.. can't be bad, can it?

Wikipedia is getting to be invaluable

Wikipedia is getting to be invaluable. It's always shown promise but now it's almost unbelievably good. Want to know about bikes? Look at this. Cars? Check this out. Greenhouse gases? Business management? You name it, someone's thought of it. It almost makes me want to give up writing these blogs and just direct you all to read the Wiki instead. Almost.

The MustKnows you must know

Well, if they aren't must-knows they are things I find interesting anyway!

And the sponsors and bargains page is here, too.

1975 commercial - Braniff Airways - The Supersonic Future

Hilarious, if a little sad. Braniff don't exist anymore and supersonic airliners died in 2003... as for very little walking, that bit seems to have happened...

The original bargain list...

Yes, there used to be a list of sponsors here, places that offered good value on products that appealed to some of us... well me, anyway. But now the list is here... so please explore.

We mustknow morestuff

We can never know less stuff, indeed we should know more stuff. Welcome to the revamped sponsors and affiliates page at gtveloce.com!

You may be interested in Morestuff as well.

And if you get lost, here's a master link list:

My portals

• KlausenRussell.com
• gtveloce.com
• My mustknows
• airliner links
• car links
• philosophy links
• bike links
• music links
  

My Alfa pages

• The Rust-free Alfa Romeo page: guaranteed since '95
• All about Alfas, especially GTVs
• The car gallery
  

My bike racing pages

• Addicted2wheels, bicycle race wheels: my most popular blog
• Bike racing for almost anyone
• The bike gallery

My myths and legends pages

• Myths, legends and weird stuff: Mythoblogia

My sustainable business pages

• The business of sustainable business
• My MBA resource blog - thespiel.com
• Out Out Damned Blog - a wilder ride
• The Offline blog for quieter web-rants

My overly long list of blogs

• Addicted2wheels, bicycle race wheels: my most popular blog
  
• The site that started it all for me in 1995, Colnago - the blogger
• The Rust-free Alfa Romeo page: guaranteed since '95
• My MBA resource blog - thespiel.com
• Myths, legends and weird stuff: Mythoblogia
  
• The Abecedarian Insult: A2Z, the blog
• Stuff I think you all mustknow
• All about Alfas, especially GTVs
• The business of sustainable business
• Bike racing for almost anyone
• The Offline blog for web-rants
• My all purpose writing blog
• The Class of 75 blog
• The gtveloce.com-munity blog
• My genealogy research blog
• Out Out Damned Blog - a wild ride

My image galleries

• DAP: the digital image gallery
• My mostly digital image blog
• DAR: the digital art gallery
• The aviation gallery
• The aviation image blog
• Trams, trains and buses... yet another gallery
• The bike gallery
• The car gallery
• The flora and fungus gallery (I kid you not)
  
• The New Fortian gallery
  
• The Original Fortian gallery
  

Surely that's enough for now!