September 2008
46 posts
As a friend said last night, we’ve become a banana republic with nukes.
– Demolition accomplished - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog
Bort - A Base Rails Application | Jim Neath →
FM 100 Hue Test →
Holy crap. It’s worth watch through to the end, where the show the trains going along sides of the building.
LiveLeak.com - MagLev Toy Train
Tracking flights across the world over the course... →
Fear of Flying
I struggled to contact Westchester Tower this morning, confusing the rules of contacting New York approach and whatever dim recollections I have on trying to enter the Binghamton class D airspace. This would make even less sense if you knew what I was talking about, because Westchester is right under the class B airspace. Not only are they totally different rules for B and D, the skys in...
I do not think we have to worry that giving up religion will lead to a moral...
– Without God - The New York Review of Books
Frybrid Vegetable Oil Fuel Systems →
Sir Ben Kingsley STOMPS into the shoes of Minor Threat’s Ian MacKaye on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Tremendously long, but very interesting talks with Gunter Grass and Norman Mailer. I like especially that the interviewer is so direct and confrontation — “why did you act as the moral authority of germany and not tell people you were part of Hilter’s youth?” You don’t often see that level intellectual honesty in public discourse. Normally we’re too...
His entire literary output barely ranked a step up from a Frasier episode; he...
– I think suicide is pretty horrible thing for the people abandoned, so I don’t want to be too nasty. But everything that I’ve read of his has been such inane drivel that its frustrating to hear people who like him. The reason that people don’t care about self-important art is that...
(HD) A More Perfect Union on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
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Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been...
– Amazon.com: House of Leaves: Mark Z. Danielewski: Books
As we had predicted, the students with a growth mind-set felt that learning was...
– The Secret to Raising Smart Kids: Scientific American (via igrigorik)
Wild Sanctuary's WildBlog: Inside the Creative... →