Archive for December, 2009
Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) is an annual conference held in Long Beach, Cali., where bright minds share their thoughts and ideas. Matthew Childs, a digital branding specialist and former Outside … Read the resteditor, shares an interesting presentation about the parallels between rock climbing and life success.
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Award-winning National Geographic Young Explorer, Global iWend Ambassador and kayaker extraordinaire Andy Maser traveled to South America with his Epicocity Project partners to run some rapids and learn more about what’s happening to Bolivia’s tropical glaciers.
In addition to writing a killer feature story about his trip for the newest… Read the rest
If dictionaries were related then the Urban Dictionary would be Merriam Webster’s bawdy half brother. The black sheep of the dictionary family, the Urban Dictionary shuns academic definitions of established words in favor of user-generated interpretations of slang words and phrases, typically of the coarse or perverse nature.
At first… Read the rest
(Un)Happy Holidays!
Love,
Monsanto Claus
The multiple ways Monsanto is putting normal seeds out of reach
Monsanto’s dominance draws antitrust inquiry
Millions Against Monsanto Campaign
Visit Joe Mohr’s cartoon archive at JoeMohrToons.com… Read the rest
Climbing, Natalija Gros – Le Tango Vertical from Film IT on Vimeo.
Slovenian Climbing World Cup athlete Natalija Gros swims, solos in Croatia to the sounds of smooth Latin rhythms.
Follow me on Twitter @Kyle_Cassidy… Read the rest
Last week the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed a case that, if successful, would have included Women’s ski jumping in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The outcome is the culmination of a year-and-a-half long legal battle between Canada’s female ski jumpers and the International Olympic Committee, which decides which sports will… Read the rest
Blood, frozen body parts, chairlift, terror. This one’s got it all.
Plot:
Three snowboarders who attempt to sneak one last run in before the resort closes for the week end up becoming trapped on a chairlift. When members of the ski patrol turn out the lights and head home our… Read the rest
The turtles at the Great Yarmouth Sea Life Center in the U.K. are given a special treat each year during the holiday season. The treat comes in the form of brussels sprouts, which the turtles enjoy, and which also provide them with healthy vitamins, minerals and fiber. However, the once-a-year… Read the rest
The folks at Wagner Custom Skis, Visit Telluride, and Telluride Ski Resort have teamed up with Wend-friend Steve Casimiro at The Adventure Life to offer what is shaping up to be one of the winter season’s best contests.
The lucky winner will score a 3 day, 4 night ski trip… Read the rest
Since this is the last Monday before we transition into 2010, my feelings are that we need to be saying bye bye to ’09 Music Monday’s and hello to what is to come in ’10.
The other day I was reading through Design Milk, which featured Beat Boxer Steve Aoki… Read the rest
Wildlife researchers fear that South Africa’s vultures are being hunted into extinction so that people can smoke their brains for good luck.
Smoking vulture brains, which is believed to tap the scavenger’s superior vision to induce visions of the future, is a popular activity among gamblers, exam-wary students, and businessmen.… Read the rest
If American Apparel had a holiday ad.
[Via: Huffington Post]
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Welcome back all you sublimity suckers. We’re glad to see that you made it through the crazy holiday weekend. Here’s a late holiday gift to help bring peace to your frenzied mind before the last week of 2009.
This footage, which features a mysterious gravity wave, was captured in May,… Read the rest
In 2002, two cyclists, Jamie Bianchini and Garryck Hampton, hopped on two tandem bikes and headed out on a worldwide bike ride under the title of Peace Pedalers. With two empty passenger seats and extra cycling and camping gear, Bianchini and Hampton invited strangers to hop aboard and join the… Read the rest
For a couple of years now, ever since walking a deserted beach in Nicaragua with a surfboard under my arm, I’ve been obsessed with plastic debris. As a surfer and an ocean-lover in general, I felt an immense duty to get involved and try to force better policy on plastic,… Read the rest
