i’m out in SF/Berkeley for a conference and decided to find me one ellusive bike coffee cup holder. in all of the US there appears to be two vendors: SOMA (the item picuture above) and Topline (who also makes a beach chair/surfboard carier). now it’s time to figure out how to get a bag vendor (in bike speak, a pannier) to send me a sample bag or two.

Apparently, something called Project Upstream is sending random messages to two people and then hooking the two people up to instigate a conversation.  Neither person knows that they ’sent’ a message first.  Usually, (or, as in my case, always), the messages are ignored by both parties.  After receiving a few of these, I Googled around and found only the nixiepixel article above, though she links to some other info as well.

(Via Greg’s new blog Crotchety Times.)