Dec 11,2008
Wakeboarding in Venice
So jealous. Check out this guy in the flooded Piazzo San Marco last week: (Hat tip: Jeff)
Dec 10,2008
Those characters actually mean something, you know…
I’m sure that this will go up on whatever website is the Chinese-language equivalent of Engrish.com: The Max Planck Institute is one of the world’s leading science and technology research...
Dec 10,2008
The Drug War has killed more Mexicans in a year…
than the Iraq war has killed American soldiers. Good thing it’s making drugs unavailable in the United States! (Cringe) How sad. Walking through the parks in the prime business neighborhoods of downtown...
Dec 10,2008
Not-so great public works projects
Amity Shlaes uses Japan in the ’90s as an example of what not to do when enacting economic stimulus plans. A cautionary tale for Obama’s administration-in-waiting.
Dec 10,2008
Does the government owe royalties on torture music?
A conversation I had about this at work this morning got me wondering. I shoulda known Wired would have been on to this months ago: Insult, meet injury: Now there...