Recover a Stolen Bicycle? Maybe -- If You Do It Right - SF Weekly (blog)
21 May 2012, 10:11 am
(I really should have chained the seat to my frame, or settled for something dowdier.) Then, poking around Craiglist a few weeks back, I spotted my beloved, or so I was convinced. My better judgment took a good long nap while I dialed the seller and set up ...

Bridemaids dresses take foreeeeeeeeeeeeever to figure out - Atlantic City Press
20 May 2012, 6:55 pm
I had a couple different ideas going at once. One was a dress-and-jacket set. But I was unimpressed by what I found — dowdy and dowdier. Dress + jacket usually = mother of the bride. Kind of blah. So I tried to find a pretty dress and a shrug ...

Show Some Leg: Clip System Turns Any Board Into a Table in Seconds - Wired News
13 May 2012, 6:56 pm
Just scored a fine slab of reclaimed hardwood? Simply unclamp the legs from their dowdier top and upgrade. The legs are currently available in three colors and two sizes through the Linie 58 website, for 79 to 94 euros per pair. Stateside DIY-ers who are ...

The fairways are now fairer - Independent Online
13 May 2012, 8:33 am
A game once seen to be the preserve of the older and the dowdier has become glamorous and ultra-chic. Close to 60 players took part in the A Division, the standard exceptional because among them were four plus-one handicaps, eight scratch golfers and a ...