By • Feb 20,2009

Google Earth shows US base in Pakistan

Picking up on Mr. Donadio’s post, I thought I’d link to this story in Slate, which describes how Google Earth accidentally confirmed Sen. Feinstein’s comments about the US having secret...

By • Feb 20,2009

The one that got away

Even as a cartoon, Tom Waits is pretty cool (NSFW, due to some animated nudity). Incidentally, this is an early example of rotoscoping, the technique used in Waking Life. The...

By • Feb 20,2009

America secretly popular in Asia

There’s a front-page story in today’s WaPo about Hillary Clinton’s listening tour in Asia. Not often reported, but included toward the end of this story, is a bit of data...

By • Feb 20,2009

The Ladies With All the Answers

The women who have penned some of the most sought-out advice columns are experts in a kind of social history. Not only have they memorized (and written) tomes on etiquette,...

By • Feb 20,2009

The European Sub-prime Mess

In October of last year, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück was clucking about the financial crisis being “America’s problem”. The spate of bank rescues orchestrated across Old Europe, which inconveniently...