Author: Daniel Kennelly

By Dec 03,2008

Big Underpants Reloaded

The story just refuses to die. The China Blog reports: The state broadcaster is apparently unhappy with the inelegant nickname for its stunning new building, and is backing a search...

By Dec 01,2008

What Will Obama Do?

Peter Beinart thinks that, on foreign policy issues, Obama really will be what his left-wing supporters thought he would be, despite his eyebrow-raising cabinet picks: It’s precisely because Obama intends...

By Nov 25,2008

Why the iPhone Is Cool

This: “Steve Demeter wrote ‘Trism’, a sliding-block, color-matching puzzle game, in his spare time, and put it on Apple’s App Store for $4.99. Just two months later, the game had...

By Nov 20,2008

A Loss of Shared Teleology

Rod Dreher, with a little help from Alasdair MacIntyre, pins the source of the impasse in the gay marriage debate: a loss of a shared teleology, hence much of the...

By Nov 20,2008

For the love of underpants

A video and song extolling the virtue of “Big Underpants“, aka China Central Television’s physics defying headquarters in downtown Beijing. (H/T to Kelani Chan for the link and translation.)

By Nov 20,2008

Water on Mars

This sounds like pretty big news: “NASA scientists have discovered enormous underground reservoirs of frozen water on Mars, away from its polar caps, in the latest sign that life might...