{"id":271,"date":"2009-04-03T11:07:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T19:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=271"},"modified":"2009-04-03T11:08:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T19:08:42","slug":"yellow-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2009\/04\/03\/yellow-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago I saw this yellow card magnet<\/a> from Aerostich and I thought<\/a> about making something for bicycling. I tried to contact some seattle bicycle advocacy people about the idea on myspace, but never heard back, so eventually I did it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The other day I was reading some bicycling related articles on the Internet and found this one at crosscut<\/a> about Peter Miller’s Yellow Cards<\/a>. Peter writes about the origins of the idea,<\/p>\n

… Aerostich copied them from my site after seeing them in the news, probably from the crosscut article. So the same steps happened, but in a different order. I think what you’re doing looks really really great. As you can see in my site, I originally posted the idea as an open-source contribution to the cycling community, so I am glad to see it expanding outwards.<\/p>\n

I used to ride with Boston Critical Mass and came up with the Yellow Card in Chicago after a fatal accident occurred in front of my house (a bus killed a father of three). I really don’t like that Aerostich is charging a buck a piece for them (breaking creative commons liscence), but my desire to make it open source is a desire to encourage growth. It’s how market’s operate. Even after posting instructions on how to make them, I’ve gotten frequent requests to sell them. So I am really amped that you are choosing to give them out. That’s what I’ve been doing the whole time.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Lastly, you may find this totally pictographic iteration funny:
\nhttp:\/\/sooper-genius.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/this-is-bicycle-yellow-card-dont-let.html<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s really exciting to know this started with bicycling, and that there’s momentum behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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