This article is form a few months back but I really think it deserves some additional google juice. It’s pathetic to me how much truck the wildest conspiracy theories have on the internet, and if one more person I haven’t talked to in years forwards me that ridiculous flash animation “proving” that the pentagon […]
I have to say that Cadence Weapon’s new song Oliver Square is one of the best songs ever. Maybe you have to be from Edmonton to fully understand its brilliance. Though the Pitchfork review is quite positive.
Elsewhere, Cadence’s hometown shoutouts get Simon Reynolds off his back. While most of us can’t appreciate the […]
I suppose the fact that thousands of Ukrainian-Canadians were interned in labour camps during WWI should not surprise me, but I have to admit that it does. I’m not surprised from a historical perspective, the early 20th century was certainly a far more brutal and rascist period than we live in now.
I am surprised […]
I’ve always gotten a lot of enjoyment out of David Foster Wallace’s writing. The new Atlantic Monthly features a simply incredible 23 page long article in which DFW examines the world of talk radio. One of the most impressive things about the printed version of this (there is also a pdf download for […]
Hey, everyone knows that Americans are becoming more conservative. A recent Economist/YouGov poll even shows that around 30% of respondents believe they are more conservative over the last 10 years, and just under 20% believe they have become more liberal. Amongst Americans there was a similar spread in sentiment to the question of […]
The latest silly blog game:
where you’ve been
bold the states you’ve been to, underline the states you’ve lived in and italicize the state you’re in now…
Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas […]
Here’s a fun 8 minute long flash movie detailing the death of the 4th estate in the year 2014. It’s a fun thought experiment about the confluence of Google’s information gathering and sorting power combined with Amazon’s social networking features. Worth playing, even if just in the background while you email.
If you don’t […]
Salon has posted an article on a subject that I was meaning to jot some thoughts on here. It’s about the phenomenon of tagging as seen at del.icio.us and flicker.com.
It’s a very simple concept, and 43 Things is a very simple site, but tagging as it is used here and at some of the […]
I’ve heard a bit about the work on people’s thoughts influencing random number generators in the 1970s, but it sounds like they’ve moved on to something bigger.
But the project threw up its greatest enigma on September 11, 2001.
As the world stood still and watched the horror of the terrorist attacks unfold across New York, something […]
Newworldman reader Johny Canal points us towards an interesting post at kottke.org looking for the maximum Starbucks density as measured by the default 5 mile radius of the Starbucks locator. JC lives in Kitsilano, and while I was not surprised to hear that he scored a 60 store density, I was surprised to find […]
Wired has a great article on the new trend in traffic management. The idea is to remove signs, lines and lanes, and let traffic manage itsellf, leading to less accidents, more flow, and more livable cities. Seriously, check the article for yourself (hat tip: Johny Canal)
Monderman and I stand in silence by the […]
Brilliant exposition of Fight Club (hat tip: WoC)
In the film Fight Club, the real name of the protagonist (Ed Norton’s character) is never revealed. Many believe the reason behind this anonymity is to give “Jack” more of an everyman quality. Do not be deceived. “Jack” is really Calvin from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. […]
Interesting article that details history of scoial security, while also questioning whether there is a crisis in the system.
I was recently in Palm Springs for a family vacation. I was pretty pleased to viddy the famous dinosaurs just off the I-10, the same dinosaurs that Large Marge dropped Pee Wee off at in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, the same ones that the autistic kid in The Wizard was obsessed with.
Imagine how much […]
I’ve got a lot of drafts sitting here that will never become full peices, so here’s some early spring cleaning:
James Fallows writes an amazing article in the Atlantic covering the possibility of a US invasion of Iran when it becomes clear that a nuke is inevitable (Aren’t we already past that? -Ed.). The […]
Interesting analysis of the centralization of bittorrent including a measurement of the long tail and Parreto aspects (my long tail post) is in the drafts, should be published soon.
Today also marks the first mention on /. of Kenosis which is an application which attempts to decentralized bittorrent through xmlrpc.
In the last election Mormons voted for Bush on a 9 to 1 margin. TNR points out that the story is a bit more complex. No thundering insights, but a seemingly comprehensive look at the state of affairs.
To make matters worse, fissures are developing on several policy fronts, as well. The first dispute […]
A companion site to the book Free World by Timothy Garton Ash.
Here’s an interview about wikinews.
At Wikipedia, we have very, very strong neutral policy. We call it a neutral point of view, and it’s really one of the central organizing principles of everything we do, including the news project. Unlike some other grassroots journalism type of projects like Indymedia, which is a very far left type […]
Michael Powell is a frustrating figure. He alternates from brilliance to near incomprehensibility to admirable hard-headedness to shoulder-shrugging cynicism in the space of a single paragraph. This and more are reasons enough to read the Reason interview with him.
I’m increasingly excited that I can actually talk to you about your TiVo and what […]