The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”
Go figure.
Everybody knows how to ride a bike, right? But not everybody unlearns how to ride a bike. But Destin Sandlin did just that (link via Jason Kottke and no, it did not involve injury or a rare disease—he did this intentionally). He also untaught his six-year old son, who proved more adaptable because he was younger.
So, how do you unlearn riding a bike? Well, first off, you get a bicycle that steers backwards …
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