News Videos to Start your Day
First down:
Then up:
Going through these lists are strange — I expected the 1,001 books to be the best books, or the new Classics, things that an educated person should read to know about life or something like that. It was more of a little of literary-pop novels rather than Good Books. That there were so […]
This is what is like to be a lawyer in Islamabad.
New York Times
It’s like James Bond meets Indiana Jones, only in real life.
(via The Sartoriaist)
Jabber IM with Patrick Burleson:
1/28/08 4:09 PM
Patrick: got time to waste 3 hours?
Patrick:
Will: uh
Patrick: part one of 3 hrs of MTV recorded in 1983
Patrick: the nostalgia factor is high with this one
Will: wow that’s crazy
Patrick: luckily, you can background it
Patrick: the commercials are the best
Will: i like how he’s just sort of babbling
Will: […]
Just to continue on yesterday’s doom and gloom, here’s an non-sci-fi sci-fi moment from Ted where we’re discussing terraforming the Earth to deal with climate change.
And here’s the video, for those who aren’t seeing it embedded: Here
American author William Gibson, who has spent much of his career creating fictional futures, says it’s hard to write […]
I just signed my sister and I up for the permaculture course this spring so we can turn Starlight into a productive farm again. And I just finished reading the second book in the Mars Trilogy, which is really a series about a planet. And then I find this poem, and am not […]
Blogs blogs blogs. My days are have two distinct states: 1) when there are unread items in Google Reader, and 2) when Google Reader is empty. I used to use Bloglines, but if you want to power through reading tons of blogs google reader is the best way. According to the Trends […]
Interesting talk if you haven’t heard any of his stuff before, and even if you have, he’s got the delivery down pat. I also like his presentation style, in that the slides change rapidly and quickly and generally have a single word on their hi-lighting the most important concept in the sentence.
This fits in […]
In our third installment, I’m going to talk about magazines. Like, the paper things. With the stupid subscription cards and the glossy pictures. I don’t know, there’s something about the relationship with the paper versions of the words that I enjoy, something which blogs or websites won’t ever really replace. I […]
One of the best things that I’ve gotten is an iPod adapter for the car. I can jack the iPod into a cradle to the right of the radio and it plugs in like the satellite radio or something, directly in and it sounds great. For a while I had used the iTrip, […]
I thought I would do a series this week on the media that I consume. It’s always interesting to see what books other people have on their shelves. When I’m over at someone’s place I always feel both like I’m spying on them in someway, and that I really want to know. […]
© sublimeguile. Powered by WordPress using the DePo Clean Theme.