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  1. If we're talking about high-tech bikes... by Dekortage · · Score: 1 · on Montreal's Public Bikes To Use Web, RFID, Solar

    ...I was more of a fan of Josh Kinberg's Bikes Against Bush, though the prototype was confiscated by the police (and its creator jailed for a few days).

  2. "Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted" 8/31/04 by geekotourist · · Score: 1 · on Widespread Spying Preceded '04 GOP Convention
    I have this memory from 2 and a half years ago, a giant thread, nearly 1200 posts... What was it... oh, yes:

    Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted

    "Joshua Kinberg, creator of Bikes Against Bush, was arrested in NYC [original link 404d] for vandalism while being interviewed by MSNBC. Kinberg's website describes his project as 'using a Wireless Internet-enabled bicycle outfitted with a custom-designed printing device, the Bikes Against Bush bicycle can print text messages sent from web users directly onto the streets of Manhattan in water-soluble chalk". Both Wired and Popular Science [original link changed] have done stories on Kinberg's work." Update: 08/30 01:30 GMT by J : Mr. Kinberg has been released; he describes his arrest and brief stay behind bars on this MSNBC blog.


    Funny, haven't yet seen the Slashdot story mentioned in this current thread. There's probably a few commenters here who commented then (quickly checks that I didn't).

    It sounds like the police, having compiled the 4 page dossier on him, were planning to arrest him as soon as he got to NYC. And they did, because being 'capable of spraying anti-R.N.C.-type messages' is dreadful.

    It took months and several thousand dollars to get the case dismissed, a year to get his computer and phone back, and they "lost" his bicycle.
  3. Bikes Against Bush by prakslash · · Score: 5, Informative · on Print Messages On Your Beer

    A dude in New York City, Josh Kinberg, used a similar internet-enabled, dot-matrix printer mounted on a bike.
    He used it to spray paint anti-Bush grafitti on New York's streets during the last elections.
    Very cool. The cops arrested him and took his stuff but he was let go and won a case against them.
    Video of the printer in action. His site.

  4. Free Joshua Kinberg! by Coupons · · Score: 1 · on Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted

    I've never seen anyone arrested for stapling campaign posters to utility poles and those damn things last forever.

    Are plans for the chalk writer open source?

    Bikes Against Bush has been /.ed, how about the NYPD? You can send a message to Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly here.

  5. Support Josh via Paypal to buy spare parts. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted

    Josh was arrested at the RNC yesterday evening, because the cops said they couldn't remove the chalk from the sidewalk.

    The bike was confescated, and Josh & friends are working on a replacement. They have spare parts, but need some quick cash. You can give some quick cash via the Paypal link at the
    top of http://www.bikesagainstbush.com/ . $5 or more, I'm sure anything will help.

    http://publish.nyc.indymedia.org/feature/rate/1060 15/index.php#106015

    -= Flarg

  6. Forget hacking, try bicycling instead by Dekortage · · Score: 1 · on Hackers Take Aim at Republicans

    Another form of protesting the Republican National Convention: Joshua Kinberg's Bikes Against Bush, which allows you to type in a text message on his web site and have it spray-painted (well, spray-chalked) directly on the streets of New York via his wireless computerized pedal-powered spray-painting bicycle.