Dan Koeppel describes and interviews laborers who ride to work in Los Angeles.

If this involves Ali McGraw in a halter top, I'm all for it.

Here's a wiki that allows cyclists to create pages describing bicycle hacking projects.

Christopher B. Leinberger argues that suburbs, particularly the most sprawl-y are apt to become slums as younger people flock to the cities and transportation costs rise. Anyone who's spent much time In Oklahoma City could tell you that.

Folks can vote for a new Texas license plate design at this site. The new plates will go into production in January 2009.

The Yarn Car was another cool art car I saw at Maker Faire

The Camera Van was one of the cooler things I saw at Maker Faire. Most of the cameras are clearly non-functional, but apparently it takes pictures too.

TechDirt uses the example of NYC's MetroNorth online lost-and-found system to argue that with Web 2.0, everyone comes out ahead. But when businesses use UGC, does everyone come out ahead equally?

A time-capsule containing a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere will be unearthed in Tulsa on June 15th.

This online marketplace for information about parking spots raises ethical issues of how commons are shared.

This cool street, um, highway art reminds drivers to keep a safe follow distance.

According to a British researcher helmeted cyclists are more likely to be hit by cars because of the perception of safety. I wonder how culturally specific these findings are.

This awesome series of web pages has photos of abandoned New York City train stations and their historical context.

The Yellow BIke Project is hosting a wiki for information about cycling events and history in Austin.

Since I mentioned this at a party last night, I thought I would post this street art project here. The Miss Rockaway Armada are sailing a biodiesel raft made from salvaged parts down the Mississippi from Minneapolis to St. Louis.

David Caruso's Horatio Caine needs to roll in one of these on the next season of "CSI:Miami."

This site is designed for sharing images and videos of direct action against Hummer trucks.

Bruce Sterling provides links and terse commentary on biofuel production.

Atrios has this insightful post on the drinking age of 21 in the US. I agree that the problem isn't teen drinking as much as teen driving. Let's make the drinking age 18 and the driving age 21.

I'm not sure it bodes well that a Chinese business is outsourcing manufacturing to my home state. The relaunced MGs will be built in Ardmore, which is about halfway between Dallas and OKC.