Whale Watching
This is a great read, but does the Hubble Telescope really contain whale oil? WE'd like to see a source on that.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Disco Demolition Night turns 30
Spurned on by the allure of blowing up a dumpster full of disco records, 75,000 spectators-turned-rioters nearly destroyed Comisky Field 30 years ago this weekend.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
More from Matt Taibbi
Taibbi writes like an in-line six hurling down the highway. He's got guts that just don't quit. Moreover, who needs "thrillers" like The International with Goldman Sachs out there?
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Ikea
The masters of do-it-yourself furniture assembly were out of the bookcases we wanted--how does a furniture warehouse run out of bookcases?--but I was just going to give Ikea a shout-out for their keyboard tray (Summera) and the under-desk cable management rack (Signum), but searches for both on their website turned up nothing, so there you have it.
Monday, June 08, 2009
Craft Beer--and lots of it!
"Friday & Saturday - June 19 & 20 - the east coast's largest celebration of American craft beer at the Seaport World Trade Center Boston, featuring 75 American brewers, 300 craft beers, and more ..." The American Craft Beer Festival!
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Leave it to News Corp to Screw Up Hulu
When Hulu stopped playing nice with the Apple, we worried that it was the beginning of the end. And now that there is talk of running the service on a paying basis, we are ending our brief affair with them. SurftheChannel, or there is always TVTorrents.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Kansas Doctor Killed for Providing Healthcare
and The Right Wing is spending their weekend celebrating the murder--what is wrong with these people? The Ten Commandments--the same Ten Commandments Christianists want displayed in every court house in the nation--explicitly forbid murder, and here they go murdering. In church, no less.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
X Prize in Healthcare
This is obviously a great idea: A $10 million prize for designing a better healthcare system. Thumbing through the website, this stuck out:
Consumer(1) engagement: Consumers must opt-in to any programs the teams offer. The assignment of people to a team makes high rates of participation a requirement for success.And there's the rub: People do things that are harmful to themselves. And, just as infuriatingly, people irrationally do other things with no demonstrable benefit in hopes of protecting themselves. An X Team can tell people not to smoke, for example, but who hasn't heard that before? In fact, is there anyone in America who smokes but hasn't heard, at least a million times, that smoking causes lung cancer, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, bladder cancer, hastens heart disease, etc, etc, etc? Or food: who would choose hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, coronary artery disease, and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis over health? Everyone who eats beef more often than once a week, it turns out, and probably everyone who eats McDonald's more than once a month.
But on the other end of the spectrum are those who obsess over organic produce, ear candling, full body CT scans, executive physicals, and the like, who waste just as much effort from an overtaxed cohort of physicians, nurses, hospitals, and fellow insurance purchasers as the souls who indirectly choose tobacco, fat, and salt over health.
1. Healthcare is not a commodity for consumption. Medical care is the energy, skill, and literally care a physician or nurse uses to lighten the load carried by a patient, a sufferer, a fellow human being who bears a burden.
1. Healthcare is not a commodity for consumption. Medical care is the energy, skill, and literally care a physician or nurse uses to lighten the load carried by a patient, a sufferer, a fellow human being who bears a burden.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
"As per..."
Can we all just agree not to say "as per..." ever again? It is annoying, because no one seems to know what it means. It is impersonal, shifting authority, blame, and responsibility to the cloud.
Next time you are about to say it, just ask yourself if you really need both the "as" and the "per," and since you probably don't, ask yourself if you wouldn't sound like an ass if you said "per." Since you would, and the "as" doesn't add anything, you sound like an ass when you say both together.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Free Chocolate!
From the Mars Real Chocolate Relief Program: A free candy bar to the first 250,000 people who sign up every Friday.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
The Espresso Book Machine
A souped-up copy machine to print books (trade paperbacks) on demand. Fun to watch it work.
Friday, May 01, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
db Bistro Moderne
We swear the waiter was German, which would make his thick French accent a complete affectation, but the food here was phenomenal.
Also, the wine, Ramsay Pinot Noir, rocked. If you know where to pick up a bottle or two, let us know.
May We Recommend
A Moleskine City Notebook. The combo of map, pocket to hold tickets, and notebook to jot down restaurants, etc, was perfect to navigate the city while we were on vacation this weekend. You are going to want a map in your pocket, so why not grab one of these and fill it with your trip plans a week or so before you leave?
Dylan's Candy Bar
Just came back from NYC, where the inner child went wild for this over-the-top candy store, the brain child of Ralph Lauren's little girl. More pictures here.
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