I’ve never tried using long screws from the hardware store as tent stakes but it seems like a reasonable thing to do if you don’t mind carrying heavy things that could punch through your super lightweight backpack. I could see using the Cool Tools tent peg hack if you lost some while traveling or have [ more... ]

They could have cut about two-and-a-half minutes out of this video and it would have been just as funny and gotten their point across. It looks like the EcoGeeks leaned on Absolute for some money to help put it together. via Wend

You think you have the doping lab wonks beat with your new CERA drug and then find out a few weeks after getting your silver medal that they’ll go back and test blood samples in the next eight months. Remember the Olympics? The six athletes who tested positive for CERA were named today. Two of [ more... ]

The site Bike Friendly launched last week as an attempt to give cyclists more influence over privately provided bike parking. Basically, you can upload pictures or places where you’d lock up your bike and then rank businesses on how well they provide you a place to lock up. If it catches on businesses would be [ more... ]

Someone better write a screenplay about these guys before I do. A board of University of Oregon peers shut down the school’s Ultimate Frisbee team due to conduct violations. Apparently they’d been forced to ask chaperones to accompany them to games to make sure they complied with the rules governing basic decency, and after a [ more... ]

A woman running away from a bear burst onto a road and got hit by a car, and now we all have to carry bear canisters in Rocky Mountain National Park. Actually, the two incidents are seemingly unrelated, except in that they both involve the diabolical trickery of bears. The pregnant woman was rushed to [ more... ]

You kind of think, “They’re not going to go there.” Then they go there and you think, “Was it worth it?” Well, a pretty good PSA either way. Don’t worry if you didn’t see it; it’ll be on a VH1 special about the 2000′s in a few years. It comes to us from JewishRobot.com.

Rand McNally rolled out a series of microfiber lens cloths maps for our friends who can’t read their directions due to dirty glasses. The maps are mostly of urban areas as a person heading into the Alaskan wilderness likely wouldn’t want to carry a 5-pound (10 pounds wet) beach blanket map. The microfiber city maps [ more... ]

The parent company of Surfing, Surfer, Skateboarder, Snowboarder, and 71 other magazines will stay in business after reaching a bankruptcy agreement with creditors. Interlink Companies will benefit from the canceling of over $1 billion in debt they would never be able to pay back and they’ll be able to tap $100 million in revolving credit [ more... ]

What’s abuzz on Twitter right now? Besides Arlen Specter’s party change and the earthquake in northwest England, that is? Crocs. That’s right. Everyone’s favorite Lifesaver-colored rubber slippers. Seems that this one sentence from @rainnwilson is being retweeted around the Twittersphere faster than the spread of the infamous influenza now sweeping our planet: “I’m going to [ more... ]