January 8, 2009 – 09:47 am
From Johann Hari’s You are being lied to about pirates: “As you read this, the British Royal Navy – backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China – is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. They will soon be [...]
January 8, 2009 – 09:33 am
From NY Times’s Atheists Send a Message, on 800 British Buses: “…the Atheist Bus Campaign [is] an effort to disseminate a godless message to the greater public. When the organizers announced the effort in October, they said they hoped to raise a modest $8,000 or so. But something seized people’s imagination. Supported by the scientist [...]
January 7, 2009 – 08:33 pm
From CNET’s New year, 150 million Facebook users: “It was only a matter of time. Social network Facebook says it has hit the milestone of 150 million active users, just more than two months after reaching 120 million and about four months after reaching 100 million….Nearly half of those 150 million members use Facebook every [...]
January 7, 2009 – 10:54 am
From Writers Weekly’s Thirty-One Writing-Related Resolutions: “Many writers are stressed at the end of the year, not because of holiday parties, last-minute shopping, or a second batch of cookies, but because it’s time to plan next year’s writing progress with the dreaded New Year’s resolutions. Instead of getting stumped on the same ‘write more, write [...]
January 7, 2009 – 10:51 am
From Seth Godin’s Change your pricing: “Ski areas have a huge fixed cost base (land, grooming, etc.) so they get greedy, sell too many lift tickets and the lines get long. Fixed pricing encourages people to ski a lot, at peak times. What if it only cost $3 to get on the mountain, plus a [...]
January 7, 2009 – 09:48 am
From Slate’s Green my blog.: “Jonathan Koomey…has now estimated how much energy it takes for one gigabyte of data to travel over the Internet….on average, between nine and 16 kWh of electricity to transmit a gigabyte of data. What does that mean for your personal blog? In terms of direct pollution, the impact is likely [...]
January 5, 2009 – 09:58 am
From Kevin Kelley’s Breakup of the USA: “The fact that the USA will not always be as united, or at least united in the way it is now, is considered, well… unthinkable. But as Juan Enriquez notes in his amazing PopTech talk, based on his book ‘The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our [...]
January 4, 2009 – 01:17 pm
From the UK Times’ Scientists discover true love: “A team from Stony Brook University in New York scanned the brains of couples who had been together for 20 years and compared them with those of new lovers. They found that about one in 10 of the mature couples exhibited the same chemical reactions when shown [...]
January 2, 2009 – 08:05 pm
Happy New Year, everybody!
Well, we took our little two week hiatus and I guess it’s time to get back to posting shit on the blog, huh? Dawn and I had an awesome time in Chicago for Christmas. I’ll probably upload some pictures next week, so I’ll save any stories I might have until then.
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December 18, 2008 – 03:07 pm
From The Smoking Gun’s 2008 Mug Shots Of The Year: “On the following pages you’ll find the 2008 Mug Shots of the Year, 20 booking photos selected from among the tens of thousands reviewed this year by TSG’s staff (all three of us). While most of the images speak for themselves, on some pages you’ll [...]
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