News and links 11-5-08

• Fixie hipsters. Just fun to watch. About 4 minutes. From cyclelicious.
  Empire from Empire on Vimeo.
• How to shop for bike-ish things: girl's version. Best paragraph:
  

  Trying on a full outfit will give you the true feeling of how it will ride. Don’t look in the mirror first. Rather, sit down, or squat down into bike position. If you mountain bike, shift around a lot, and feel for seams that rub you. Roadies should imitate “the drops position”; the garment should fit best in this position and it should not ride up. OK, now look in the mirror.

• A bike light that you can charge via a USB port. (Hat tip to Bike Rumor.) (And what is the practicality of this feature? Are you gonna use the batteries of your laptop to recharge the battery of your light!?)