September 2007
Ideas We Need a Word For
I had a 50/50 pecent chance of being right on random luck alone. I considered the choice deeply and fucked up. This happens often enough that we need a word for it in English. Any suggestions?
“A lot of people had this expectation in New Orleans that, ‘Dammit, by next...”
– Ronald C. Kessler, Professor of health-care policy at Harvard Medical School quoted in The Washington Post.
Only Photos of Smiling People are Permitted! →
Next week, Sony is due to launch a digital camera that can be set so it won’t release the shutter until people in the picture are smiling.
Peter Laufer's Congressional Testimony →
Meet Clifton Hicks, who returned from fighting in Iraq to apply for and receive an honorable discharge based on his conscientious objection to war he developed in Iraq. It’s a war, says Clifton Hicks, fought for the “filthy rich too cowardly to do it themselves” who want more money, fought by “us, the masses of uneducated fools killing each other.”
The Latest in Total Surveillance →
Opinion polls, both in the US and Britain, say that about 75% of us want more, not less, surveillance.
Amazon Conservation Team →
Works in partnership with indigenous people in conserving biodiversity, health, and culture in tropical America.
The Brick Testament - Old and New in Legos →
The Prelinger Library in San Francisco →
“So the idea of making a library was fed by my experience that college and university libraries’ closed stacks inhibit browsing and the process of random discovery.” -Megan Shaw Prelinger