I am taking a leaf from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC/”Aunty”), and from now on will only be approving comments that I first enjoyed reading myself. Given that I am so fussy, and don’t get much […]

People who ride bicycles are a good humoured lot. We must be. If we weren’t, we would be naming as “hate speech” every taunt yelled at us from a car window; we would sue newspapers for […]

Last June I met with a group of bicycle activists in New York, most notably Charles Komoff, famous (among other things) for revitalising Transportation Alternatives during the 80s. I have not blogged about our meeting that […]

Early Christians in Rome found shells left abandoned, in the form of Roman basilicas. They moved the entrance from the side to the end, and viola: the latin cross church. The Southern Indian—”Dravidian”—temple form was likewise […]

Who writes lengthy comments below blog posts, calls radio stations, and writes letters to editors? Not me. I dump my personal opinions in a corner of the WWW, for the whole world to ignore, as 8-billion […]