PlanetTran strikes me as the kind of company those of us who care
about social and environmental issues should be supporting, and heck,
founding. Why take a gas-guzzling Lincoln when you can ride a hybrid –
especially when a hybrid “idling” at the taxi stand automatically shuts
off?
Mission-driven entrepreneurship — I love these kinds of companies. Can capitalism have [...]
While walking home from Harvard Square this evening we came upon a
cat that had been hit by a car. It was lying still in the middle of
Putnam Ave, and two guys who had gotten there a little before us were
trying to figure out what to do. We decided to move a traffic barrel
that had been [...]
The National Law Journal did a piece recently on law school loan
forgiveness programs, and Rachel and I were both featured in the article. We were particularly excited by the great photographer
they sent over to get us doing our thing — eating breakfast, doing the
bills, and,
well, posing with our bikes. She took hundreds of pictures, and [...]
Here’s
a picture of workers hanging up flags around the Hatchshell I took last
night on the Fiedler Footbridge while biking home.
Boston, IMHO, has the classiest and best Fourth of July celebration in
the country. We don’t do the schmaltz that DC specializes in, and we have a real sense of history here. (We are the home of [...]
Or as boingboing calls it, “cakemod.”
I do it just about every day. Of course, I’m only 4 miles from work
by foot. I hope people who choose this option will find out just how
pleasant it is to bike to and from work. (And if they don’t, maybe next
time they’re driving a car they’ll be more careful and aware of
cyclists!)
