There’s a great thread on Hacker News right now talking about the myth of “I could make that in a weekend!” Of course, there’s always some truth to this. To my mind, any project that can be completed by a single developer in a ‘reasonable’ amount ...
A post on Daily Kos echos my sentiments on American energy independence: “The logic is hard to avoid. If we invest in energy efficiency, alternative technologies, and green jobs, and for whatever reason global warming turns out to be much adieu a...
The Big Picture, today, has a collection of 35 pictures taken from the International Space Station, including one of the Puget Sound region. The resolution is spectacular. Even though you obviously can’t see my house from there, you can easily ...
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As consistently funny as everything else he does. Despite his spockish calm and gangly frame, the president is known to dabble in sports...and not just bowling, but the hard stuff. What they call 'basketsball.' </param></param></param></embed>
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From Dan Savage: The massive demonstrations in Prague in November of 1989 that came to be known as the Velvet Revolution began with protesters—students mostly—being beaten in the streets and ended with the fall of that country's communist regime ...
Great coverage as always of the unrest in Iran from the Big Picture. Really tremendous photos of what’s going on in Iran right now.
Gary soon makes you realize the pitfalls of modern, free-market capitalism, unhindered by checks and balances, a boom-town driven purely by the motive of profit. Jonathan Haeber I was forced to visualize the building at its nadir, when you...