December 15, 2013 RIP Peter O'Toole In Stop thanking the troops for me, Justin Doolittle clarifies notions I've had for years about 'the troops' Also agreeable, musings on conspiracies, fifty years later -- Skeptics Gone Wild by Saul Elbein November 28 Happy T-Day! At Wired , Answers to all the tech questions your family will ask this holiday. Two from BuzzFeed: Brits label map of US States, and Amazing things only a 90's kid would understand. Although I was in the 90's, sporks are the only   thing I recognize in this listicle. October 16, 2013 (updated) Finally drove the Matrix down to LA, shown here on the return, on that portion of the Ridge Route which still remains accessible. The Fantastic Four (#1-315) as the Great American Novel Chris Kraft is extremely disappointed with the current trajectory of the US Space Program There's an anti-Reddit reflex in MetaFilter (and I've been a member seven years now) but here's a few worth-while entry points -- Colorized History, Out Of The Loop and Slow TV RIP Scott Carpenter October 9, 2013 If it drags on too long my tune will change but so far, this is great! Wouldn't mind the government shutting down every October. September 7, 2013 Do you like maps? I love  maps. Hence, 40 maps that explain the world at the Washington Post . Especially #24, more than half of humanity lives inside this circle And how about the last one, the time lapse? Fascinating. September 1, 2013 Also, certain tunnels of the Bejing Subway (not Metro) are lined with flat-screen TVs at window-level configured such that the commercials keep pace with you (video) August 4, 2013 Back from Far Cathay, unsure now if I'll ever get a report about the trip together, but here's a pic and ten observations. CHINA is a place where... buildings may have blue- or green-glass windows parents may shave their infant male's scalps to stimulate hair growth in public places, groups of people may be dancing together, usually in the park in the morning. there's a distinctive, baseline smell. "A strong, intriguing odour of the East, not disagreeable, but different" (Sir Hubert Wilkins) the scooters are now mostly electric but they drive them in pedestrian zones. In the evening, with no lights young men (who want to sell you one) wave green laser pointers around. Once I even saw a blue and only once, a red the traffic is so loud with the goddam honking you wouldn't believe they have bullet trains and convenience stores now, just like in Japan young men pull their t-shirts up around their arm-pits, exposing their rotund tummies to be cooler when it's hot tea isn't served with meals by default. But a hot water spigot is readily available June 8, 2013 Merry, Mary and Marry, one of the 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other. Or at least, certain words. May 22, 2013 We all love the Singing Spaceman but didja know Andrew Kolb recently made 'Space Oddity' into a childrens' picture book? May 12, 2013 How To Be German: Part 1 and 2 New 'Electric Sheep' by Patrick Farley (wiki) -- Steve and Steve do WWIII, part one (but note, we did not "Dude" back in 1973. '83, maybe) Dash-cam captures 747's Last Seconds Before Bagram Crash in Afghanistan two weeks ago -- NPR article with embedded video and follow-ups More recent videos, Youtube and Vimeo: Stoopidtall bicycle ride, and you are there via helmet-cam; Alan Watts, What if money didn't matter? Unrelated, we made Coca-Cola transparent and colorless with a filter; and finallly, stop-motion construction, Segmented Walnut and Maple Bowl April 15, 2013 The Fundamental Units -- extreme close-ups of some '1' coins 2004 American City Flags Survey, 150 rated best-to-worst by the North American Vexillological Association. More fun at the Bad Flags blog April 11, 2013 I've always wondered about this, if a very strong person might shake an egg vigorously enough to scramble it in-the-shell. Seems it's easy, with a sleeve and the right technique. March 17, 2013 Photos of children from around the world with their most prized possessions More photos of the Ukraine Love Tunnel Recap: as the Smithsonian's series nears completion, here's their index to The Jetsons at 50 Using now my fifth computer, a Thinkpad T60 replacing the almost-identical T41 which, when it chooses to boot up, still works fine, but only for a few minutes. Really good to have a new (well, newly refurbished) system running the ol' reliable XP with very similar look and feel of the early days on the Win95 Monorail. February 22, 2013 London -- the view from the Shard, incredible detail The Buffalo Beast's 50 Most Loathsome Americans. 'You' are way down this year, at #32 January 27, 2013 Amazing off-the-grid houses The Guardian reports on how, up unitil now, Russian soldiers have worn portyanki foot-wraps instead of socks Ryan Estrada explains, manga-style -- Learn to read Korean in 15 minutes Why Everyone Films at Potemkin places like Wu's in "Men In Black 3" instead of 'real' Chinese restaurants (in NYC) Janaury 9, 2013 RIP Huell Howser, lovable doofus, California voice. All his shows are archived by Chapman University so, finally, watching his Ridge Route tour which I could never find at the library. You can read my own notes of driving that road back in the archives, scroll down to October 25 2004. Photo here was somewhere along the way.
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