The Marketing of No Marketing – NY Times, via messengers.org “On a recent Saturday evening, about a hundred serious cyclists, most of them young men, many tattooed and pierced and at least one wearing striped tights and a floral thrift-shop dress, arrived en masse at Alberta Park in northeast Portland, Ore. They gathered near a fenced-off court and, in teams of three, began a ”bike polo” tournament. Almost all were bike messengers, about a third of them local (others from Seattle, San Francisco and elsewhere)… [...]

Congratulations to David Rosenberg, one of the first Londoners to be chosen for their 60 minutes of fame on top of Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth. He will be riding a (stationary, I hope) pink Brompton, which will generate power to light his pink jacket. It is worth quoting him for the following: “I used to visit the National Gallery with my grandmother. And my uncle was badly injured in a traffic accident on the north side of the square. He survived, but he was in [...]

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