Tour de France, Duct Tape, and Shakespeare

Duct Tape Fun Facts
While poking around for info on the Tour de France, my honorary roommate found this super Duct Tape Fun Facts link. Did you know that 2.8 billion linear feet of duct tape was sold in 2004 by a single brand?

The Girls’ Guide to the Tour de France
I’ve never considered bike riding a sport. I’ll be honest. You are riding a bike. There is no way to score. There is no tackling opponents or kickoffs. Just a lot of skinny people up and down one mountain after another. Until they arm the contestants with BB guns or have the first and most important leg of the race include constructing a bike out of duct tape, I’ll just keep waiting for football season. I do, however, give the bikers a nod for recognizing the importance of duct tape for their adventures.

Flashback
Tour de France Devotional (2003)
Tour de France Devotional (2000)

A Literature Moment
I join David Bunch at Collideoscope in noting the auction of a rare Shakespeare folio. It brought $5.2 million, which I point out because a recent Picasso piece auctioned for $95 million. Do we prefer visual art to literature? Or is this a comparison of apples to oranges?