Friday Inspiration, Vol. 19

This is super-fun (even if your ski season is ending):

“The point is, the industry portrays mountain bikers one way, when the vast majority of mountain bikers ride nothing like those magazine glam shots—yet we call all of it ‘mountain biking.'”
—Greg Heil, Mountain Biking Has an Identity Crisis… And it Affects Us All

The Case Against Drive-Throughs.

For map geeks (like me): How about a 3-D woodcut topographic map of your favorite place?

A Frightening Look At The Empty Ghost Cities Of China.

Impressive mix of “the 16 greatest hip hop albums of all time.”

NPR has the First Listen of Andrew Bird’s new album up now.

-Brendan