[tooki]

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,...w=wn_tophead_2

tooki

[cszar2001]

The video is pretty cool.

[andi*pandi]

pretty damn cool!

[Gankdawg]

is Kinberg's master's thesis

I applaud his ingenuity though.

[amsalpemkcus]

thats going to be one of the most brilliant ways to protest! wow!!



they will arrest him at the first alphabet though..

[soul searching]

Nifty indeed!

[f1000]

Can't wait to see it in action!

[KrazyEvilGoat]

So, um, what exactly is he protesting against? People who hate new york?

[andi*pandi]

Hooked on Phonics helps millions with reading comprehension dysfunction--I hope it can help you too.

[Shaddim]

Originally posted by andi*pandi:
Hooked on Phonics helps millions with reading comprehension dysfunction--I hope it can help you too.

Too bad it can't help self-righteous jerks like you.

[andi*pandi]

OUCH!

Well, it seemed a valid comment. The article was chock full of info he seemed to have missed about the potential topics for the messages. Perhaps it was a joke on his part--but then, it was a joke on mine.

Did I kick your puppy in another thread or sumthin?

[MindFad]

Originally posted by MacNStein:
Too bad it can't help self-righteous jerks like you.

Is this some form of schizo self-deprecating humor?

[york28]

I'm impressed that it varies the chalk firing timing based on the speed of the bike. Very cool.

[rastatero]

Wow, very cool use of powerbook. -- Tony

[KrazyEvilGoat]

Originally posted by andi*pandi:
OUCH!

Well, it seemed a valid comment. The article was chock full of info he seemed to have missed about the potential topics for the messages. Perhaps it was a joke on his part--but then, it was a joke on mine.

Did I kick your puppy in another thread or sumthin?

I don't see one word in that article that suggests that what he's writing is of a protesting nature.

[demograph68]

I first thought of the movie Demolition Man when i read it.

[andi*pandi]

Originally posted by KrazyEvilGoat:
I don't see one word in that article that suggests that what he's writing is of a protesting nature.

Well, he hasn't written anything YET. Just testing. from the article:

Kinberg will be taking his road-spraying bicycle to the Republican National Convention in New York this fall,

The project, called Bikes Against Bush, is Kinberg's master's thesis.

Kinberg said he'd considered giving Republican supporters a voice, but discounted it. "It's not fair and balanced," he said. "It has a clear political slant."

One idea suggested to him was to set up phone lines for taking messages verbally, one for Democrats, the other for Republicans. The Democrat line would be free, but the Republican number would not.

These things, combined, seem to point out that Kinsberg will be protesting aspects of the Bush presidency, and accepting and publishing protest messages from other likeminded thinkers. This could expand into anti-war messages, anti-republican messages, anti-texan messages, anti-death penalty messages, anti cheese and badger messages, and many others.

But I think the last one is going too far.

Political leanings aside, it's a nifty gadget and I hope he gets an A+++ on his thesis.

[G4ME]

Old News, i still think http://www.hektor.ch/ is the bomb, CnC Graffiti machine.

And this is much more covert, have someone drop the RC walk away, then a guy from a few yards away can control it.

[Shaddim]

Originally posted by MindFad:
Is this some form of schizo self-deprecating humor?

It seemed the guy was asking a valid question and got flamed for it (what the guy on the bike is protesting is rather buried in the article). I probably went too far to the extreme, but so did the chastisement regarding his reading comprehension skills.

On topic, although I don't agree with the biker's message, I do think the method is ingenious. Kudos to his creativity.