Monthly Archive for April, 2006
The ethanol subsidy is worse than you can imagine 0 cmts
Bluff follow-through 1 cmts
Thirty-seven degrees Farenheit. Midnight on a deserted beach. Huddled with a group around a blazing bonfire. Your legs are warm, your feet are freezing, there are graham crackers and marshmallows and, of all things, Dunkin Donuts. You strip off almost all of your clothes, pick up a burning piece of wood, and run straight into the Atlantic ocean.
Its like trying your first spoonful of ice cream. Its like your first time up on water skis. Its like floating on your back in a tranquil pond while, up above, fighter jets shoot across the sky.
I didn’t know what I wanted, didn’t know if this was going to just be a disaster or something I look back on and say, “what was I thinking.” Nope, its not that. It is new, it is strange, it is amazing, and I want more. I need more.
Thanks Mat. 
Muslim Athletic Wear Covers Skin Without Cramping Style 0 cmts
_National Geographic_ reports on athletic wear targeted at Muslim women. This is really great and progressive, and major athletic companies should seriously look at getting in on this market. (via jwz)
Gladwell finds the Duke rape case interesting because it gives us a chance to look at how the legal system will deal with the problems of eyewitness testimony across races 0 cmts
Gladwell finds the Duke rape case interesting because it gives us a chance to look at how the legal system will deal with the problems of eyewitness testimony across races when its a minority person picking out *white* defendants. There is a pretty good scientific understanding that our ability to identify other people is far reduced when they are people of a race different than our own. In most high profile cases in the past, though, it has been a white victim picking out blacks. Gladwell asserts that there could be thousands of black men in prison on the basis of flawed eyewitness testimony. He is probably right.
gui.interacto.net – Home 0 cmts
UNO 1.3 is out! Hooray! Finally we users of Intel Macs can escape the awful ugliness of “brushed metal”.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Horrible Segues, With Local Anchorman Clive Rutledge. 0 cmts
UC Berkeley on iTunes U 0 cmts
UC Berkeley has made their iTunes webcasts publically available, and the selection of free audio lectures is awesome. Check it out! Stanford is also offering similar amounts of content. Harvard? Not so much.
The Wasteland – What’s the creepiest thing in London’s sewers? Blocks of congealed fat. By Rose George 0 cmts
Time for some wanderings in Londn’s sewer system, where the creepiest thing to be found is blocks of congealed fat dumped by fast food restaurants. Huh. I find this sort of infrastructure fascinating, and London so much more so as the bulk of its sewers were built 150 years ago. This story seems to be the first in a series. Awesome.
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