Cordaround explains on their blog a fun awareness event Monday night:
Leading minds in lighting — Timbuk2 reflective bag designers, MonkeyLectric LED wheel makers, Instructables craftsmen, and Rock the Bike rappers — will be on hand to bedeck your bike and body with their brilliant inventions. In addition, my friend needs to unload about 4,000 glow sticks left over from Burning Man, so one lucky rider will be able to travel through town as a phosphorescent mummy.
Whether you’re a daily bike commuter or someone who wants to learn more about urban cycling, please meet us after the night ride at Gestalthaus — where the bier will flow like sauerkraut and vice versa.
Sauerkraut, beer and safety gear. Paradise! Perfect event for the Land Shark. CU there!
I’ll build it up with new components, but I still looove the KOOKAs
The London Zoo was blamed for a “love fall” that killed a ten-year-old six-foot-long 44lb Komodo dragon in 2004 after she tried to reach her mate on the other side of an eight foot wall.
London Zoo’s curator Dr David Field: “The design of the enclosure was thoroughly researched drawing on the knowledge of the world’s leading reptile experts, but sadly this individual female dragon’s agility far exceed our expectations and research.
“Immediate measures are being put in place to prevent a similar incident happening again and we are carrying out a thorough investigation into what occurred.”
Bu an RSPCA spokesman said: “The full biological needs and abilities of any animals should be fully assessed before they are placed in a captive environment.
The Zoo had spent over one million pounds creating the Komodo house to protect the dragons. Although the zoo curator says they consulted leading experts, Komodos are known for climbing. I suspect a few details were simply overlooked, like the fact that a wall can be dangerous. Only elder Komodos that may grow to be too heavy to support their weight are unable to climb, but the London Komodos were young and acquired for breeding.
When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.
Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated”.
So that was what went up under the English version which barred lorries from a road near a supermarket.
Had the recipients been able to verify the welsh was correct themselves, they probably would not have needed to send the sign out for translation. A better solution would be to look for some indication that the work had been completed and that someone would stand behind the work — accountability.
