September 2010
48 posts
Scale Of The Universe →
Extraordinary fan-made titles for 'Walking Dead' →
Absurdonomics: Veg vs. Bears
(In some corners of the Internet this counts as a finance column. And, yes, I wrote it.)
The news that a woman in America successfully defended her honour, and her spleen, from the vicious teeth of a great bear with nothing more than a humble courgette at her side has set the Internet alight this week. But what financial predictions can we take from this happiest of headlines?
“Could stegosaurus go the way of its beleaguered cousin, brontosaurus? Early last...”
– Time to rebrand the stegosaur?
Are people getting better at writing? →
Ben Goldacre ponders something that I, too, have pondered.
Ski resort lets you level up and earn achievements →
“The Donkey Kong high score record has been shattered three times this year with...”
– The King Of Kong Once Again The King Of Kong
Eye on iBooks -- examining the dark underbelly of... →
My new weekly column poking fun at the Apple iBooks bestseller list.
New York Marriage Bureau Offers Mugs But Not... →
Weezer — The World Has Turned
Second Weezer...
A Mysterious Force Is Pulling Pioneer 10 Back... →
Nazi Youth pope compares atheists to... Nazis →
What to do if NYC is nuked →
NY Post makes lamest attempt at journalism I’ve read this year.
There is a company in Japan that has been in... →
Thanks to Brian for this.
The Local East Village Blog →
Cool work from my old college, NYU and the New York Times.
The Last Story of F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre →
Following the appearance of a Sun front-page headlined THE TRUTH, which infamously accused Liverpool fans [present at the Hillsborough disaster] of pickpocketing the dying and urinating on them, Dalglish says he was called by MacKenzie.
“Kenny, we have a bit of a problem,” he said.
“Aye.”
“How can we resolve it?”
“See the headline that you put in, ‘THE TRUTH’? Just have another one, as...
“Physicists at the Australian National University have announced that...”
– Is Star Trek’s Tractor Beam Possible?
Guy Carrying Guitar Case On Elevator Envied By... →
The Onion at its best.
Et Tu, Brooklyn? →
Exploring Midtown Without Avenues →
The New Yorker
6 Years of 'Iraq War' Wikipedia Entry Edits, In... →
Code and Theory →
Fantastic web designers. Admiration abounds.
8.4 Million New Yorkers Suddenly Realise New York... →
WatchUltimate Time Lapse: Earth // Current
“Those who grew up as analog reporters wonder: Is journalism becoming a...”
– Howard Kurtz - How readers consume their news online is changing journalism, but it’s not just about the clicks
“You can see it go on for miles over the hills and everything. But so does the...”
– Karl Pilkington on the Great Wall of China
“In principle, it is possible to propel an orbiting spacecraft without fuel by...”
– Space ribbon deployed to surf Earth’s magnetic field
