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by Roger McNamee · 1 Jan 2019 · 382pp · 105,819 words
opportunity to meet its founder. Zuck showed up at my Elevation Partners office on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, dressed casually, with a messenger bag over his shoulder. U2 singer Bono and I had formed Elevation in 2004, along with former Apple CFO Fred Anderson, former Electronic Arts president John
On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City
by Evan Friss · 6 May 2019 · 314pp · 85,637 words
navigate the city the fastest and fostered a sense of camaraderie among the subset of riders most invested in being a messenger through and through. Messenger bags even became fashionable accessories for people who never rode bicycles. And a group of New Yorkers continued to complain about messengers—and they still worried
One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility
by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness · 28 Mar 2010 · 532pp · 155,470 words
a growing number of companies that are eager to cash in on the cultural cachet associated with urban bicycling. yet unlike patagonia’s Critical Mass messenger bag, pedro’s Critical Mass Mini Tool, the vans Fixed Gear authentic shoe, or iron Heart’s $360 Cyclist Jeans (bicycle not included), the product puma
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trend is part of a broader co-optation of messenger culture in which track bikes (once ridden almost exclusively by bike couriers) as well as messenger bags, walkie-talkies, cycling caps, and even the most minute details of messenger garb (such as elastic key chains worn at the elbow joint) are donned
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at once reconfiguring the role of independent, small-scale businesses in the north american bike industry and also demonstrating a sense of pride that famed messenger bag maker Eric Zo associates with Diy production: “i’m in the society of people who actually make their own shit.”120 This bloc includes messenger
Bike Snob
by BikeSnobNYC · 5 May 2010 · 155pp · 51,258 words
exposed keys. 2. Bicycle messengers, whose lifestyle (and consequently appearance) often overlapped with the peace punks. From the messengers, the Urban Cyclist took the giant messenger bag, the track bike, the chopped handlebars, and the frame stickers. 3. Ironic preppy. Since so few Urban Cyclists actually have roots in any of these
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, rubbery stale bread. Likewise, it’s discouraging to want to join the bike culture only to discover it’s a bunch of people with custom messenger bags sitting around in a bar watching videos of their buddy doing tricks. That’s not bike culture; that’s just stale bread. And if I
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put a rack or two on it. Carrying stuff on your bike will keep you way cooler than keeping it in your ultra-trendy, oversized messenger bag with the sweet graphic on the front flap. And if you’re commuting and have a place to change, carry a change of clothes with
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a certain group of people can ultimately evolve into fashions. Here are some current cycling fashions that Don’t Always Make Sense: The Messenger Bag Along with fixed gears, the messenger bag has become extremely popular. In fact, it’s become so closely associated with cycling that many people automatically think it’s the
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only type of bag you should even consider for riding. It’s rare these days that a new rider will purchase something else. Messenger bags for non-messenger use is nothing new, and they’ve been popular with non-cyclists for decades. They actually crossed over to the mainstream well
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before messenger-style bikes did. This makes sense, because messenger bags are durable and they hold a lot of stuff, and they’re a much better fit for the typical urban person than a leather briefcase
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. However, for on-the-bike use, messenger bags aren’t always the great choice everybody thinks they are. This is because they’re designed to swing around from rear to front quickly and
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much better off with a regular backpack. Still, urban cyclists will continue to choose the messenger bag. Actually, the messenger bag has become less a bag than another article of clothing. People often opt for the most capacious messenger bag they can find, but since they’re not delivering packages these bags just remain mostly empty
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. And empty bags don’t swing around; instead, they simply wrap around your body. Really, a better name for messenger bags might be “hipster capes.” The U-lock still resides in the back pocket, and the keys still hang from the waist. And the
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messenger bag is wrapped around the shoulders, and the shoulders are hunched over ridiculously narrow handlebars. The result is riders who look like James Brown at that
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as much control over a brakeless bike as it was possible to have; suddenly, they were new riders on shiny track bikes with big, empty messenger bags who were having visible difficulty controlling their bicycles. I saw riders straining against their bikes on downhills; I saw them riding slowly and tentatively in
Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell
by Neal Stephenson · 3 Jun 2019 · 993pp · 318,161 words
then used them to wipe tears that had spilled onto the tabletop. He threw the damp tissues into a convenient receptacle, then slung Dodge’s messenger bag over his shoulder and tucked the canvas tote under his arm. The office manager opened the door for him. He nodded to her and walked
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of luck with your brand,” Corvallis said, sliding out of the booth, reaching out, almost as an afterthought, to throw an arm over Dodge’s messenger bag and the sack full of his effects. He turned without shaking El Shepherd’s hand and stalked away. His exit route took him right along
Hatching Twitter
by Nick Bilton · 5 Nov 2013 · 304pp · 93,494 words
stores while Marcia shopped. There he also started to develop a fascination with bags himself. Rather than opting for purses, though, Jack found comfort in messenger bags. In San Francisco years later, he wore one daily. A light-colored Filson bag that contrasted with his dark clothing: black T-shirts, zip-up
Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy
by Eric O'Neill · 1 Mar 2019 · 299pp · 88,375 words
argued that the backpack wasn’t professional and had insisted I buy a shiny leather briefcase. We’d compromised on a black-and-gray Timberland messenger bag that now hung off my shoulder. While I didn’t wear a suit and tie as effortlessly as Gene, I felt confident that I at
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least wouldn’t embarrass myself in front of the assistant director. I had stuffed a few items into the messenger bag: a legal pad and pen to take notes, my FBI credentials that told others in law enforcement whom I worked for and the golden badge
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heavy coat. “This is a bad idea,” Juliana hissed from the bedroom doorway. I stuffed my FBI credentials and a heavy extendable baton from my messenger bag into my coat pockets and handed Juliana my cell phone. “If I shout, you call 911.” Before she could say another word, I was out
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pressed into the thin carpet. My hands found each other behind my back in quiet agreement not to touch anything. Then I saw Hanssen’s messenger bag. Five minutes later I called Kate. “Remember when you told me never to search GD’s office?” Kate sounded harried. They had followed Hanssen to
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caught him acting weird. When he wasn’t walking around the street, he was trying to park his car just right.” I picked up my messenger bag and put it on an empty chair next to me. “Gusev would make weekly visits to the park outside and would put his bag on
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
by Anthony M. Townsend · 29 Sep 2013 · 464pp · 127,283 words
strewn with empty glasses and bottles, a dozen or more geeks would stay up late making plans to spread free networks throughout the city. Bike messenger bags stuffed with wireless routers, antennas, and patch cables lay underfoot. One of those nights, I actually ended up in a bar fight wielding nothing but
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a Friday in early May 2011, and a small flock of disheveled twentysomethings trickled into Foursquare’s offices with their MacBooks tucked into their bike messenger bags. Tweets and check-in alerts percolated through the air like cricket chirps as the staff slowly recovered from the Foursquare-fueled night before. Being your
How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir
by Cat Marnell · 30 Jan 2017 · 416pp · 121,024 words
going through a rough patch,” I said. I returned to my cubicle and sat down. Jean resumed editing with her blue pens. I started opening messenger bags with my numb hands. Then I stopped. It was silent in the beauty department. Cristina wasn’t there; neither was Simone. It was just my
Bleeding Edge: A Novel
by Thomas Pynchon · 16 Sep 2013 · 532pp · 141,574 words
and here’s Marvin the kozmonaut, dreads pushed up under his bike helmet, orange jacket and blue cargo pants, and over his shoulder an orange messenger bag with the running-man logo of the recently failed kozmo.com. “Marvin. You’re up early. What’s with the outfit, you guys folded weeks
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