August 2008
38 posts
All my teams last night
The Jets, with their new Favre; The Yankees, with help from another Jason; my Cubbies on Sweet Lou’s birthday, with an A-Ram grand slam—and all to the tune of Mister Obama’s melodious voice wafting over a packed and relatively attentive Turkey’s Nest. I’d forgotten how I liked that place.
Projected results of the U.S. presidential... →
折り紙 Origami →
The Cubs!
They’re 30 games above .500! They were the first (still are the only) team to win 80 games on the season. Now 81. What a year! What could possibly go wrong?
The Truth About Russia in Georgia →
From Michael J. Totten:
“TBILISI, GEORGIA – Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of South Ossetia. ‘The warfare began Aug. 7 when Georgia launched a barrage targeting South Ossetia,’ the Associated Press reported over the weekend in typical...
Cattle shown to align north-south →
Mystery virus kills 160 →
Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record →
“By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET’s Technology Voters’ Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP…”
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Mail a brick to junk mailers, at their expense! →
The Radio Kitchen →
Can’t recommend the Professor’s shortwave blog enough, so here it is again.
着物.fraise.net →
着物 Kimono and Kitsuke 着付け →
You're Sew Brilliant →
My sister-in-law’s free “stitch lounge,” located in the Flying Monkey Arts Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Bad Credit No Credit, Toby Goodshank (former Moldy... →
At Europa (upstairs this time)! Monday 8 September at 7:00 p.m. Come on out!
忍禮
Or, to put it more simply, 忍礼
Focus! →
Autumn of the Multitaskers: “Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. One man’s odyssey through the nightmare of infinite connectivity.”
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Extra Golden, Mahmoud Ahmed, Getachew Mekurya, and Either/Orchestra.
Tonight!
The Great Consumer Crash of 2009 →
“It is easy to ignore the storm if you look at the opposite horizon. When the storm reaches your location there can be no more ignorance.”
One Pill Makes You Autistic—And One Pill Changes... →
“Need to finish that work project, and wish you had the mental intensity to do it? Just take a synapse-regulating inhibitor, induce temporary autism, and you’ll want to ignore your friends and do nothing but number-crunching for days. Autism-inducers could become as popular as Provigil among the geek set by 2020. Last night, in fact, a group German researchers announced they’d...
Open-source pact subject to copyright →
An excellent, encouraging development in the legal status of open-source licensing.
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myspace.com/badcreditnocredit →
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Closing and Other Sweet Sorrows →
Dear Web 2.0,
I’m into it, but listen,
I know you’re concerned about graphic cleanliness and portability, but who told you it was OK to open a quotation without closing it? There’s barely a blog theme I haven’t passed up solely because of its willingness to embrace this little trend of coding convenience. While it might be a CSS challenge to do this in a mannar attractive to your...
One Man's Quest to Digitize and Publicize Rare... →
“Thousands of recordings that had been largely consigned to the realm of prehistory in the digital age have gained a new life, thanks to the tireless efforts of one man.”
His download server is currently down, unfortunately, but hopefully that will get worked out soon.
BAD CREDIT NO CREDIT
BAD CREDIT NO CREDIT n Friends: A Musical Revue! Tonight at Club Europa in Greenpoint, B’klyn. Dollar drinks from 7-8, free show at 8!
A New State of Mind →
New research is linking dopamine to complex social phenomena and changing neuroscience in the process.
Check it!
Completely new theme, plus integration of disqus, an elaborate threaded and metamoderated comment system. Please enjoy the both of them!
WatchCosplay at Otakon 2008.
(Thanks to all the cosplayers—you rule!)
World's Best Dad →
Some acquaintances of mine are making this film, and I had the pleasure of building up this little website for them. Plus, the movie looks pretty funny so far…
