Tag: LIVESTRONG

If you had to choose one bike to ride across the continental U.S., you probably wouldn't choose one named 'Precious.' The moniker doesn't exactly ooze the kind of fearless aggression you'd expect from your riding partner, and, in recent years, it's become more synonymous with slow-moving behemoths than swift speed machines. One 'bike with a brain,' however, is out to debunk all of our ...

Earlier in the week we told of Drew Carey's promise to put $100,000 towards the LiveStrong Foundation in exchange for the Twitter name @Drew, if he were to amass 100,000 followers by November 9th. The Twitter handle in question is owned by one Drew Olanoff, who was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year and has effectively donated his user name to Lance Armstrong's cancer-fighting fund. Well, ...

Twitter enthusiast Drew Olanoff has been raising money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation and Livestrong by allowing netizens to blame his Hodgkin's Lymphoma for all the ills of world. Apparently, this hasn't enough for the philanthropist, so he has decided to auction off his Twitter account, @Drew, for charity. Olanoff had to clear the sale with Evan Williams, one of the founders of Twitter, ...

Lance Armstrong's Livestrong campaign, which focuses on inspiring and assisting cancer patients, has teamed up with Nike and software developer Deeplocal to develop the Chalkbot. This robot is programmed to paint text messages in yellow chalk along the 2,200 mile route of the Tour de France bicycle race. Up to 100,000 messages of "courage, hope and action" will be chalked along the route, Nike ...