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Sometimes, things are more than the sum of their parts:

• Rock + Track Suits = Olympic Hopefuls

  A great concert, and only $6 + bus fare! I found them to be a pretty fresh twist on the whole apathetic-indie-rocker thing — I think my exact words were “they’re so good it makes their irony ironic.” What the hell does that mean?

• Hacker Activity + Microsoft Inactivity = IE Loses Market Share

  This is covered and commented upon pretty well elsewhere:

  Anything that raises awareness that there exist alternatives to Windows is a good thing for everyone other than Microsoft.

  There’s nothing I like better than seeing a monopoly get a good run for their money. I was never any good at Monopoly.

• Belle & Sebastian + Jefferson Airplane = The Owls

  So much potential! So much instrument swapping! So few bridges!

• New York City + Bicycles = Happy New Yorkers

  I’m still a bit intimidated by downtown Minneapolis, so I don’t know if I’d fare too well in Manhattan. But things are supposedly improving:

  Though calling New York bike-friendly would be a stretch, the frosty relationship between city and bike has thawed. Adrian Benepe, the city’s parks commissioner and a lifelong cyclist, told me that one day he hoped to see ribbons of green joining the city’s neighborhoods, a seamless network for cycling and nonmotorized forms of transportation.

  A seamless network, eh? Sounds nice. Call me when it’s done.

• Imprinted Geese + Tenacious French Filmmakers = Winged Migration

  This movie starts at “visually stunning” and gets better from there. If you get the DVD, be sure to watch the “Making Of” featurette for the latest news from the Adirondacks.