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03-30-2010, 10:39 PM
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Nomadic Tribesman
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Brampton, Canada
Moto: '09 ER-6n
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The internet as a force for GOOD?
It's weird when you think about how connected the world has become.
Two days ago, on a photography forum based in the UK, I saw a picture of a racebike taken by a New Zealand motorsports guy. It was a great shot, by an amateur who has been doing great work down there. Seeing his stuff through the winter helps keep me sane. I mentioned it to a Kiwi racer who now lives in Canada, on the off chance that they had met before. He didn't know the racer, but thought that I was asking for him to find the guy. Yesterday he posted about the picture on a NZ motorcycle site, very much like this one. Today the racer saw the message, looked at the picture, and signed up on the photography forum to comment on it. A Canadian, on a British website, with the help of an ex-pat Kiwi, put together the guy who took the picture and the one who it was of, who live not far from each other but had never met. If he's lucky, the guy who took the picture might get his name around. When it isn't being used for kiddie-porn and whacko left/right rants, the internet can actually do some good.
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03-30-2010, 10:47 PM
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It's very cool how connected the world has become.
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03-31-2010, 10:37 AM
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AMA Supersport
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Location: Redneck Riviera, FL
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dpreview?
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03-31-2010, 10:40 AM
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Chaotic Neutral
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Cherry Hill NJ
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nevarr!
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03-31-2010, 11:12 AM
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Nomadic Tribesman
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Brampton, Canada
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03-31-2010, 11:55 AM
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AMA Supersport
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Location: Redneck Riviera, FL
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03-31-2010, 11:58 AM
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Nomadic Tribesman
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03-31-2010, 12:16 PM
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WERA Yellow Plate
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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SNOW? or how about the SNOW? or maybe the SNOW? since that is all we see all darned winter. |
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03-31-2010, 12:35 PM
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Nomadic Tribesman
Join Date: Nov 2008
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This was from a couple of years back. 
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03-31-2010, 12:47 PM
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AMA Supersport
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
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That's pretty cool. I'm on a music forum and at one point there was a female on there that couldn't afford a good guitar, one reason was cost in her country. People on the forum starting putting spare parts together, gave them to one guy that painted, built the guitar and mailed it to her. Cool stuff.
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