November 2009
9 posts
How do you keep something safe for a million... →
Pretty amazing interview about the plans to keep nuclear waste stored under Yucca Mountain in Nevada. It’s an incredible challenge, reading the interview makes it sound like something out of science fiction come to life.
“What am I not grateful for this Thanksgiving? Being the guy who ‘knows stuff...”
– Matt Langer (via marco)
To be honest, it’s not so bad, but it can get a bit much…
The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia →
mrgan:
I just Instapapered many, many of these.
Lots of great stuff. The following is the best paragraph I’ve ever seen in Wikipedia:
It was the 32-year-old’s second successful attempt to break into Buckingham Palace. On his first attempt, he scaled a drainpipe, briefly startling a housemaid who called security, but they decided not to act. Fagan entered through an unlocked window...
Not No Russian
I had a big long post I was writing about a level in the new Modern Warfare 2, about how it provoked in me a depth of feeling I’ve only felt a few times in a video game, how the game uses the interactiveness unique to games to create this reaction, instead of simply imitating the storytelling techniques of movies and books. Then I decided the scrap the whole thing. It’s a fun game,...
This mixtape by The Hood Internet has been making...