Okay, so I don’t know if God uses Linux. But the Vatican does. Neat interview with the Sister who is in charge of the Vatican’s website: http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1363/meet-the-techie-sister-behind-vaticans-website. (Yep, random. That’s the way we like it.)
This one is for my redneck Weston-Harvard-jewish-techie former roommate: How do you cheat at NASCAR?
Hans Wegner made some pretty kickin’ chairs. (Which I never would have known about if it weren’t for Witold Rybczynski’s piece in Slate today.)
And now I have proof.
A good article in today’s LA Times, about a drive around Afghanistan’s Ring Road. (It took me way too much effort to avoid any of the obvious puns about “Ring Road” and “Ring in the New Year”)
Ze Frank’s Brief History of Design, and why the world (as it relates to design) is totally different now. It’s definitely worth checking out. (For those who don’t know Ze Frank, his whole site is worth a peek sometime when you’ve got a couple of hours to kill. Start at the front and follow it [...]
Fake acupuncture is better than fake pills… The scary part is, dudes got paid to do that study…
(Note to non-sports people readers — you should check out the Easterbrook link too! Seriously!) So, I’ve been reading Bill Simmons for a few years now, and generally like his stuff. But I’ve decided that as interesting as Simmons may be, Gregg Easterbrook of TMQ is much better. TMQ (Tuesday Morning Quarterback) is a weekly [...]
I know this is ridiculous, but Name Voyager is actually pretty interesting. It seems that “Ian” is the 68th most common name given to boys born in the US, and has been enjoying a rather dramatic upsurge in popularity over the past 50 years or so. “Grace” is the 14th most common name given to [...]
Courtesy of Taz, this is way way too funny.
My friend Lyrica explaining green building on Chicago’s ABC morning show. Click on the “ABC 7″ link to view the video. Awesome!
Bit late getting to this one, but I highly recommend Anna’s early September posts from New Orleans as a quick look at the state of that city.
The LA Times reports on the Vermont seccession movement. The Switzerland of North America sounds like a pretty good idea to me, as long as they don’t ban ski areas or something crazy like that.
I’m having way too much fun with cockeyed.com right now. And bonus points for the previously unknown connection to the UofC Scav Hunt.
Tall people earn more because they’re smarter, it turns out. Over the years, a number of studies have demonstrated that tall people get paid more; for two people doing an identical job, the taller one gets an average of 2% more money per extra inch. The study referenced in the Slate article, though, shows that [...]
William Saletan has a very, very smart piece in Slate at the moment. Seriously, just go read it.
An interesting take on the gay marriage debate in Slate, today. The basic premise of the article is that many (most?) opponents of same-sex marriage aren’t really opposed to gay rights at all; their opposition to same sex marriage isn’t based on bigotry. Rather, their opinion is derived from confusion/fear about changing gender roles, and [...]
…do I not have a job where I can write the snarkiest commentary ever? I mean, really. I’d be money in that job.
Slate covers Barack Obama’s speech to a Call To Renewal convention last week. I’ve heard this speech mentioned, in passing, a couple of times now. And each time, in reverential tones. I’m working up the courage to actually listen to it myself…
Mom’s auction made the Boston Globe this morning, on page 2 if I heard correctly. It’s also been on the front of the online edition all day. After getting 896 unique visitors over the course of the auction itself, the website (107ocean.com) has gotten about 610 to this point in the day. So apparently some [...]