Update: Take this with the usual grain-of-salt that comes with reading commenters’ thoughts, but I found this gem from a comment on a PBS article about how the government and BP have vastly underestimated the flow of oil: …there were at least two leaks – one “set” of leaks from the well head, the other [...]
Re: the tragic sinking of a South Korean Naval Ship, a good read (as always) from Fareed Zakaria on CNN: But here’s the dilemma. If China is going to play a larger role in the region, in Asia, what does it say when the country they have the maximum influence on — they have really [...]
Coney Island Chair by Uhuru Design of Brooklyn
I use Font Squirrel for this site. Their selection is incredible (and I don’t like anyone hosting my font files but myself). Though you’ve got to admit one thing: if google is in it, then they’re in it to win it. So their service will only get better over time. And this means the good [...]
My cousin in Raxó, Spain (Galicia) runs a hut on Sinas beach. In Spain these huts are called Chiringuitos and they sell water, beer and snacks. Every week during the summer he does a churrasco which draws a decent crowd. This year, in an attempt to bring a little brand-recognition to his venture, he asked [...]
If you’re not watching Fareed Zakaria’s program on CNN (or on Podcast :), you’re missing out on what we all lament news programs should be like when we watch The Daily Show rip apart the bobble-heads and noise-chambers of Fox and MSNBC.
Fantastic essay by Steven Johnson on the value of keeping text/information linkable: Ecologists talk about the “productivity” of an ecosystem, which is a measure of how effectively the ecosystem converts the energy and nutrients coming into the system into biological growth. A productive ecosystem, like a rainforest, sustains more life per unit of energy than [...]
This one Combustion will love: The first phone-to-pad arcade game is here! If you own both an iPad and an iPhone, get Pad Racer now. With Pad Racer, your iPhone becomes a game controller. The iPad lays flat on your kitchen table. Overhead racing
Great Update from Robert Reich: Regardless of why it happened, it’s further evidence that the nation’s and the world’s capital markets have become a vast out-of-control casino in which fortunes can be made or lost in an instant — which would be fine except for the fact that most of us have put our life [...]
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