Some time ago I started the Dams & Spillways group on Flickr. I have some fascination with dams. On the one hand they’re incredible feats of engineering, but on the other they destroy landscapes and bring crops to land that should never have been tilled, as well as growth which demands more and […]
John Gruber links to Michael Gartenberg’s brief story about getting called for comment on Apple/EMI’s announcement: Had another funny call with a media outlet this morning. When I called them back on the Apple/EMI news, first question was. “Do you think this is a bad thing for Apple and EMI.” When I said “no, […]
I’m watching “Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader” for reasons of morbid curiosity. The program takes on a classroom motif. The contestant — in this case a pretty, ditzy mom (presumably) that exemplifies why adolescents are expert eye-rollers — is paired with a kid during the questions. The contestant and kid […]
I thought that Chap was being a bit callous, as he usually is, calling Boston’s Assistant DA a “#@$%ing idiot”, but after reading this great article on CNN, I’m inclined to agree, and furthermore expand that description to every single Massachusetts government official named in the article. Consider: Assistant Attorney General John Grossman […]
Poor, poor Earth, having to put up with us nasty humans. Kottke, riffing off of Elizabeth Kolbert’s article in the New Yorker, warns: Much of the extra carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by humans over the past two hundred years is being absorbed into the ocean and slowly making the ocean more […]
