Author: illnoise

Chicago Fire

Hey, if you heard about the huge fire across the tracks from my building, we’re all fine here at Coudal Partners/37Signals. There’s a photo and some Quicktime footage on coudal.com.

Indie-mp3.co.uk rocks us!

ipodicon.gifI was in the basement last night burning vinyl to .mp3, and decided “I Could Be in Heaven” by the Flatmates would make a good song of the week. Alas, putting my copy online would be illegal. So I looked on the web and found this awesome collection of ’80s indie pop. I can’t even pick one, so go have a look, You’ve got Shop Assistants doing Ace of Spades, the original demo of “Crash” by the Primitives, and much more cool stuff (although, not, sadly, “I Could Be in Heaven.”)

Meetup

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From Ana: Meetup is a site where groups of people that don’t know each other can organize meetings in their area, and guess what, they have “scooter” and “Vespa” categories in a lot of cities. If your city doesn’t have a scene or you want to start a new one, check it out. Amazingly, ten minutes after Ana sent that link, I was introduced to my new office-mates, 37signals, and it turns out they designed Meetup. Small world.

Another Vespa Suitor

Roberto Colaninno announced yesterday he was preparing a bid to buy Piaggio. Colaninno sold Telecom Italia to a investors including Pirelli last year, and is rumored to be planning a merger of Piaggio and other italian motorcycle makers. His bid to buy FIAT a couple months ago was rejected by the Agnellis, once-owners of Piaggio. More from BBC and New York Times. Thanks to Lu$ for the link!

We suck

One post all week. Next week will be better, I promise. Man, was this a crazy week. I hope everyone’s out wrenching and riding as much as I am. By the way, Galewood’s really shaping up into something cool, I hope you can all make it. I’ll have some more exciting Galewood announcements on Monday. In the meantime, here’s Geek Mod Paul, his sister, and Lemmy, because we haven’t heard from Glenn lately…

2003 Vespa Granturismo

Not sure how I missed this, but there’s a new Vespa coming out in Europe at the end of March. The Vespa Granturismo looks like a cross bewteen an ET4, a P200, and a Cosa, and it has front/rear discs, and a liquid-cooled 4-valve 4-stroke engine. Not too shabby, especially the (finally!) 200cc model. No news on USA availabilty, but it took us five years to get ET4s. Piaggio is proud to point out that it’s the 38th Vespa model (though 28 of those are variations on the Vespa PK50) and the first of the new millenium, which started a few years ago.