April 2010
17 posts
Wife selling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
This is one craaaazy article of the day, Wikipedia.
March 2010
29 posts
The Big Caption →
I know I’m going to love this blog. Photos from The Big Picture given better captions. The thinking man’s LOLCATS.
Helvetireader² →
Favorite discovery of the day. Try the Chrome extension!
Paul Popenoe, eugenics, and marriage counseling :... →
Bet you didn’t know what marriage counseling and “racial purity” have in common, did you? Neither did I.
(via Instapaper)
Preview: Instapaper on iPad - Instapaper Blog →
Now the iPad lust comes home. Must- wait- for- gen- two- grrrrrrr
Watchmerlin:
Half-Porter
From the vaults (Jan, 2009).
I want to record this with a daughter of my own someday.
Kickstarter - The Vanderbilt Republic: “The... →
Round Two: The first project by The Vanderbilt Republic, “Masters”, which I’ve written about before, wrapped up last year as the biggest project ever funded through Kickstarter, at a hair over their goal of $50,000. The members of the team went to Cambodia to document the works of the Cambodian Living Arts foundation, which has the goal of restoring Cambodia’s native...
Fireland: Danger / Black →
I rappel down onto the thirty-foot statue of Phadis, get a stabilizing grab on her giant left tittay, unsheath my trench knife and go to work on the glowing sapphire embedded in her navel. Just as it pops out with a nice ch’ding! a nine-pronged shuriken hisses out of the darkness and into my…
Damn, Fireland is the man. He took Twitter to a whole new place, now he’s doing the same...
Dan Barber at TED 2010 →
Pretty amazing discussion of how ecologically informed farming can produce excellent product, cheaply and locally with not low but positive environmental impact. It’s a little foodie/environmentalist utopian, but in a lot of ways I don’t see how this is impossible.
Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod →
Some pretty fantastic diagrams, and a great argument about how the iPad and similar devices aren’t going to kill the book as we know it, but rather eliminate the waste of books that *aren’t* keepsakes, your mass paperbacks or training guides or textbooks. In that market, physical books become more valuable, more significant.
Op-Ed Contributor - Who’s Buried in the History... →
I honestly didn’t know much about Grant, and I’m impressed by what I read here. However, I’m certain that history will largely forget Reagan as a partisan tool that partisan tools love. His was a lot of hot air.
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Scott and Scurvy →
(As we’ll see, the confusion between lemons and limes would have serious reprecussions.)
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WatchI had little interest in playing Mass Effect 2 (the first was kinda bland) until I saw this. A character randomly breaking into Gilbert and Sullivan in the middle of one of those normally boring, serious expository conversations. Games need more of this. Hilarious delivery, too.
Books in the Age of the iPad →
Article about how physical publishing will be changed with the introduction of the iPad and similar devices. In short, cheap disposable books will all go digital, books that have value inherent in their form will be better designed and more durable, to befit their more permanent nature.
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Kickstarter - 8-Bit Cities: real-world maps that... →
He’s making one for Seattle. Project: backed.
Kanye on Creativity
ampersandean:
viafrank:
Am I really putting up something Kanye West said? Yes I am. Because it’s about better. And, I’m inclined to believe this thought, regardless of what I think of the man’s music or behavior.
There’s no such thing as fact anymore, only opinion. The closest thing we have to fact is “common opinion”. Everything is an opinion. The way you dress is an expression of your...
