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Helen Suzman, Insanely Prolific
Helen Suzman died on Jan. 1st. Didn't know much about her so decided to read up on wikipedia "Suzman was awarded 27 honorary doctorates from universities around the world, was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize[5] and received countless other awards from...
570 Feeds and Nothing Good to Read
Pouring through my Google Reader today I'm reminded of the Bruce Springsteen song from the nineties: 57 Channels And Nothin On: brucespringsteen.net: Bruce Springsteen Perhaps most bloggers are still feeling the pains from New Years.
Cartographic Porn
This list of fire department maps of New York City from the 19th and early 20th century is like porn for cartophiles. (via NY Public Library Blog)
A Nation Divided
BLDGBLOG seems dubious of a WSJ article predicting the dissolution of the U.S. into six fractionalized nations, under foreign influence. Does this suggest the end of the perfect California burrito?
Jess’ Dream
"nate cooper! last night i had a dream that you owned a... hmm, i guess a park? for kids? and you bought it with student loans. and uhm... there was a tree that had like... 100000 toy monkeys on it, and a hill where you could shoot your choice of projectiles at a...
Nuke the Fridge, Lexicography of
The NY Times discusses some of the more popular buzz-words from 2008. I'm sort of surprised by how many words on the list I recognize since they all seem to have a slant towards various subcultures. Unfortunately the article also has pointed me towards yet another...
Christian Sex Toys
Wow. Just found out about Book22 "It is our company's policy that the products we sell be purchased for married couples only. As explained in the book of Genesis, God created woman from man's flesh and bone to be his companion. In so doing, he illustrated that in...
Tumblr and the Art of Conversation
With the ease of posting provided by Tumblr it seems like everyone is tumbling now a-days. I'd venture a reason for their success- aside from ease of use- is how Tumblr is marketed. "I don't blog. I have a Tumblr." Though I have hundreds of nice things to say about...
Everything Bad Is Good for You, T.V., Reading and Video Games
Been doing a fair amount of offline reading so haven't had as much to write about. Read Everything Bad Is Good for You and was pretty impressed. The book starts as almost a defense of video games as a complex medium, despite it's being maligned at best as overly...
Helvetireader trumped by Google
A couple days ago I installed Helvetireader a script for firefox that gives Google Reader a spiffed-up interface centered around a cleaner look. I hadn't really even used it enough to weigh in my two cents on the subject when Google itself released an update to their...
LOLhipsters
Buzzfeed links to a new trend I have to admit the title is definitely more interesting than the execution ... but oh what a concept...
Loud n Clear Commercial
YouTube - Loud n Clear Commercial Just saw this commercial on the T.V. during my riotous trip to California. This little Bluetooth headset-looking thing is basically a gigantic hearing aide. Hear the emcee yell at your Bingo! game.. creepily spy on your neighbors and...
The Luck of at Games of Chance
A recent skirmish with net neutrality led me to actually use a Yahoo proxy to access Google. Apparently "I'm feeling lucky" doesn't translate very well into Chinese and then back to English.
Shaq on Twitter
Shaq on Twitter Kottke has an extensive assesment of Shaq's ventures into the Twitter-verse. Certainly interesting and certainly one of the most all encompasing examinations of anyone's Twitter-workings.
Charade Trailer
I love the beginning of this trailer. I hear the movie is good as well...
The First Laptop President
This article by the New York Times was on Digg's front page and by now must be common knowledge. The sacrifice of privacy our new president-elect must make will undoubtably be difficult especially since, as this article points out, Obama is as addicted to his smart...
Weather Envy
Now: Three days from now:
Modernist Lounging
Check out this park and landscape in Prague. I have mixed feelings about modernist architecture. It always looks amazing in photography but often is bleak and imposing from the ground level. More recent construction like this, however, re-writes the perspective on a...