Here's What's Awesome: Art Abandonments, Perks for Bikers

Welcome back to our Friday cavalcade of links we call Here's What's Awesome:

It's got a basket, a bell that rings, and things to make it look good
Hybrid car owners get tax breaks. Employers in big cities offer discounts for bus and subway riders. But where's the love for bicycles? It's (finally) on the way, reports Wired. Google, Humana and other employers are offering a variety of reimbursements, credits and rewards to those who choose bicycles for their daily commutes. (To those who got the reference at the start of this section, no company is offering incentives for having a clan of gingerbread men, sorry.) [Wired]

See all photos tagged with "urban decay"
Keyword tags make the internet great. They organize content and put similar bits of information a little closer together, but they also lead in fun (search YouTube for the tag "Kitten") and sometimes unexpected directions (for an edition of NHPR's The Exchange I put a photo gallery together of photos tagged with the word "patriotism" and found a wide range of ideas and reflections).

A site called Weburbanist is pointing out some unusual keyword tags on Flickr - abandoned buildings. Take a look through the collections of dead malls or even former mental asylums, and you'll find more than a few stories that you didn't expect to read when you work up this morning. [Weburbanist]

Somehow the web gets faster
Just when your dad finally figured out what a URL was, a new tool for Firefox comes along and threatens to make our painfully-acquired web knowledge obsolete. Ubiquity is a tool that shortens the taskflow for some common web tasks - you can write messages on Gmail or Twitter, or search on Wikipedia or YouTube without having to go to each individual site. I'm going to test this out over the weekend and report back next week; if you're a Ubiquity user, let me know what you think in the comments field. [Presurfer]

(Photo by sandcastlematt)