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Designers with a deathwish are pushing the boundaries of bicycle design far beyond the realm of practicality into preposterous new worlds. The following 10 bikes are some of the most outrageous concepts to spring forth from this movement, and should only be operated in a controlled environment by stuntmen and circus folk.

http://gizmodo.com/5100303/10-insane...ould-ever-ride

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/analysisopinion/" rel="tag"Analysis / Opinion/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/software/" rel="tag"Software/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/graphic-design/" rel="tag"Graphic Design/a/pdiv align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/12/tempo131.jpg" /br / div align="left"The good folks at Pixelmator have a href="http://www.pixelmator.com/weblog/2008/11/26/pixelmator-131-color-management-made-right/"released version 1.3.1/a of their lightweight and smooth photo editing software. While the update is a href="http://www.pixelmator.com/support/updates/"mostly "bug fixes and minor improvements"/a (isn't that exciting, unless maybe you really were waiting for "iSigh support" -- which probably means iSight), but there are two big changes: the Color Management panel has been updated (as you can see above), and the Refine Selection tool has a very nice, real-time masked UI that lets you see exactly which parts of your selection are being feathered or smoothed out.br /br /Definitely not as big an update as a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/09/25/tuaw-preview-pixelmator-1-3-tempo/"the 1.3 Tempo/a that we posted about a while ago (although 1.4 Sparkle, we're told, is being worked on right now), but it is free to all users, and in fact ready to download right now in Pixelmator. The app itself costs $59, but if you're looking for something a little more refined than a href="http://www.gimp.org/"GIMP/a that's not quite as pricey as a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop"Photoshop/a, it's your new bicycle./div /divp style="padding:5px;clear:both;"a href="http://www.tuaw.com"TUAW/aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/01/pixelmator-releases-1-3-1/"Pixelmator releases 1.3.1/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.tuaw.com"The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)/a on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:15:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a.br style="clear:both;"/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.pixelmator.com/weblog/2008/11/26/pixelmator-131-color-management-made-right/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/01/pixelmator-releases-1-3-1/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/1387526/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/01/pixelmator-releases-1-3-1/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ruby14eqA5qH95Tz5OMY1QW4JKs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/ruby14eqA5qH95Tz5OMY1QW4JKs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=IIgqee3Q"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=IIgqee3Q" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=jno1J6vT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=jno1J6vT" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~4/G0uRdVo6I9I" height="1" width="1"/

Here are 3 different designs for bicycle-powered buses:

1. The Buscycle

(image via Ecofriend)

2. Eindhoven University's human-powered bus (also see our previous coverage):

3. The Velodisco:

On one hand, these all look pretty inefficient. On another, shouldn't you have less wind, drivetrain, and surface resistance to overcome per person on a well-designed setup like this compared to single-person bicycles?

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Hey Don’t Chase Your Dog Around With That Old Newspaper Use It For Something Useful Like Heating Someones House

You’ve likely seen those hand-cranked, wrought iron presses that allow you to recycle your old newspapers into burnable bricks or fire logs. Now Shigeru Ota, a 75-year-old Japanese bicycle shop owner from Tateyama city in Japan’s Chiba prefecture, has worked up something similar that cuts the unwieldy compressed brinks of newsprint down to size.

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You’ve likely seen those hand-cranked, wrought iron presses that allow you to recycle your old newspapers into burnable bricks or fire logs. Now Shigeru Ota, a 75-year-old Japanese bicycle shop owner from Tateyama city in Japan’s Chiba prefecture, has worked up something similar that cuts the unwieldy compressed brinks of newsprint down to size.

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