Twitter Updates for 2009-01-06

• Yeah, I was thinking more along the lines of Looney Tunes.
• 58 percent of bicycling Americans don’t wear helmets, claims Consumer Reports. http://is.gd/eE2S
• 100 percent of US cyclists killed in 2007 were riding bikes. Could have been another stupid stat from Consumer Reports. http://is.gd/eE2S
• Brewing.
• Tig-welding and other forms of bicycle manufacture.
• Two swallows don’t make a summer but last night and this morning I’ve seen more commuter cyclists than usual. And it’s icy and very cold.
• It’s a good piece in the WSJ. One teensy weensy mention of bikes would have been icing on the cake.
• Mac and PC users: share screens with new Skype: http://is.gd/eF49
• Yes, very slippy. My 3 kids managed to stay upright. Funnily enough, theirs were the only bikes in the school bike rack.
• Gonna get a track bike. Not for street posing (you should see the hill from our house) but for, you know, track riding. Need it for Saturday
• Fred Whitton ride entries open online. But closed almost straight away. Such a ‘hot’ event. 112 miles over every col in the Lakes. Hard!
• Funny, he normally always answers his phone, especially when driving.
• I like WSJ’s ‘cash guzzler’ term. Used it on this Social Media Release: http://pitch.pe/2713
• RT : 7 Cases to Show You How Digital Publishing Does Not Compete With Print http://tinyurl.com/9xj4uz
• And you can get derailed easily…
• Which reminds me, must go write a posting. Thanks for the platform prod.
• I have just landed a commission to do a major article on Twitter for a mainstream pan-European biz mag.
• Why the bike trade is so great to work in (and why I love getting free bikes and bits): http://is.gd/eG73 Bike industry types: agree?
• Added Portland commute stat to Social Media Release: http://pitch.pe/2713
• Tweaked the ‘Bicycle Commuter Act’ press release: http://pitch.pe/2713 I see that the American way is word caps for headlines.
• Got me some Buddy Flap mudflaps, thanks to Cheers, Byron. PS Where are is the instruction pamphlet?
• Off to get the Reidlets. My second short ride of the day. Steep grassy hill should get me slightly warm.
• RT : is the great un-masker of Twitter fraud! [Like in the bike world].
• Trey that again…. RT : is the great un-masker of Twitter fraud! [Like in the bike world].
• Free bikes? Did I say bikes? I meant free socks.
• Reidlets ride home in sub-zero temp [pix]: http://is.gd/eH0y Our cottage is behind the trees.
• I have a joke, too. ‘No, socks, please, we’re British.’ Might not translate very well.
• Josh is ‘teaching’ Ellie how to do martial arts. They watched Kung Fu Panda the other day and now Josh is the master.
• Pix on animations can now be slowed down or speeded up. This is better news than the iPhone app.
• 1970s stage comedy ‘No sex please, we’re British’. http://tinyurl.com/8lbofy
• I’m very very sorry in advance on this one. But I just got offered a three day ski trip. See, not just bikes. Hate me, go on.
• Chamonix. Lux chalet. Sorry.
• Since your views on Las Vegas are well known, I’m guessing you mean Hell. But they are interchangeable, right?
• Free bikes not so good, actually, says former journo: http://is.gd/eHSf
• Yes. What size socks do you take?
• Ordered iLife 09. Some of the iPhoto, iMovie and Garageband features look stunning.

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