This post is not actually about yurts, sorry. (Okay, one yurt tidbit: the company that produced that yurt is one of at least three major yurt manufacturers in North America. Who knew?)
I found a link to that photo on rec.bicycles.racing, a Usenet (is it still called Usenet?) group I joined a few weeks ago. As most of you know, I'm always on the lookout for sources of information about pro cycling races in general and about the domestic scene here in the US in particular.
The, um, level of discourse in the group is about what I remember from following Usenet groups in the early nineties. Hopefully, when racing starts up again in earnest in the spring, the posts will start falling closer to the interesting end of the "interesting/thuggish" continuum.
One thing the fine minds there haven't been discussing (most likely because the announcement was made just Tuesday in what counts as a general interest magazine in the cycling world) is the news that Frankie Andreu's new super-group style United Pro Cycling Team has announced at least one of its sponsors. A new domestic cycling team with experienced management and multi-year financial backing is a great thing as far as I'm concerned. And it's a great thing as far as you're concerned, too. I'm comfortable speaking for you on this issue.
In the interest of fairness, I should say that I have found out about one cool thing on that group (one thing in addition to hot yurt pix, I mean). Cyclocosm looks like an excellent RSS feed addition.
In closing, here's a quote from Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men on the Bummel, mercilessly stripped of context for my own low purposes:
Few bicycles do realize the poster. On only one poster that I can recollect have I seen the rider represented as doing any work. But then this man was being pursued by a bull.