The man beside me at the motorbike festival drag strip made me nervous because he was a Hells Angel. I made him nervous because I am a journalist. The Hells Angels are the world’s most infamous motorcycle club. This is partly because journalists love writing about how infamous it is.
Archive for August, 2008
Respectability and red tape at the bikers’ bash (Financial Times)
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Motorcyclist Killed in Laurel County (WTVQ Lexington)
Sunday, August 24th, 2008Do you believe enough is being done to keep students safe in school? There has been yet another deadly accident involving a motorcycle on a roadway in Kentucky.
Teenager Hits Deer, Crashes Motorcycle (WKYT Lexington)
Sunday, August 24th, 2008A southern Kentucky man had to be flown to the hospital after a motorcycle crash.
Horizon highlights – Obama’s web strategy, shooting the moon, and a wearable motorcycle (The Christian Science Monitor)
Sunday, August 24th, 2008E-Politics – How Obama really did it “The social-networking strategy that took an obscure senator to the doors of the White House.” [via Technology Review] Space – NASA’s plan to bomb the moon and find water “Short on time and tight on money, a team of NASA engineers aims to solve the mystery of lunar ice in late [...]
Surrey Satellite Technology US Opens For Business London, UK (SPX) Aug 06, 2008 (SpaceDaily)
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Leading small satellite manufacturer, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), has set up a new subsidiary in the United States to take advantage of the growing international demand for economical, responsive and highly capable spacecraft for a broad range of applications.