http://slate.com/id/2123414/ A “psycho-financial analysis of Roberts”: “Bottom line? Roberts the investor is smart and conservative but, like most of us, prone to following the herd.” 20:02
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This month: 24 entries.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/
21/national/a173707D06.DTL Woman falls on hot manhole cover, gets branded by
Con Ed logo: “Elizabeth C. Wallenberg, 27, was burned just
above her buttocks and on her left arm when she fell off her
skateboard onto a cover over a steam pipe at Second Avenue and
13th Street in the East Village shortly after midnight on Aug. 11,
2004, said her lawyer Ronald Berman.” 19:14
http://www.ricksteves.com/news/travelnews/archives/cbs2.htm 60 Minutes hire freelance camera crews to film the exact train their profiled subject is travelling in as it speeds past. 06:33
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,20709-1695834,00.html The Pope has expensives tastes? 02:55
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_4680000/newsid_
4680100/4680125.stm Really weak, meandering justification for
why the BBC initialy used the word “terrorist” in 7/7
reports but now don’t. 22:16
http://www.signandsight.com/features/212.htm Withering review of The Fat Duck, alleged by the Guardian to be the world’s best restaurant. 23:08
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8443715/ Contemporary movies that might endure for 50 years. 18:58
http://slate.com/id/2122512/ Thoughtful piece on what the deal is with top-selling artists who are proud to note that they have had “classical training.” 06:04
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/14110731 Amazon’s best-selling artists. This doesn’t match up terribly well with the RIAA’s list of top-selling artists (not the same time period, etc., but whatever): it’s not just the long tail, it’s different purchase patterns all round. 23:52
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4670009.stm “Video Games Live”: orchestra plays video game music live. There’s some audio samples on the right-hand side. 19:36
http://world2web.com/ourapproach.html “… it might seem galling that a group of such young people have the temerity to proposition you on handling your IT needs.” Ah, Indian outsourcing. (This company does, in fact, truly exist.) 02:24
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article297913.ece London hospitals apparently have parachute-ready staff; just one has 31 trained doctors and paramedics. I hesitate to think what sort of disaster would require medical staff to arrive by parachute in a metropolitan area though, let alone hundreds of them. 09:24
http://www.new-harvest.org/default.php Ah, excellent: people are seriously researching vat-grown meat. Producing meat by running sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, etc. through a cow is so not efficient! (Also, it kills the cow.) 20:00
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1523143,00.html “Given that the justice department has announced that the information Gary downloaded was not ‘classified’, and he was stoned much of the time, perhaps we can assume that Nasa is not too worried about his ‘discoveries’.” 03:37
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050709/ap_on_re_mi_ea/turkey_
sheep_suicide_3 One for snopes? 1500 Turkish sheep follow each other off a
cliff; 450 die. 01:40
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/posts.html?pg=6 Jorn Barger of robotwisdom.com now semi-homeless in SF? 00:19
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0708/p12s01-alar.html Lee Friedlander, and street photography in general. 22:00
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/78129466.html What living in New York must be like, according to NY best of craigslist postings. 18:43
http://www.stevetastic.com/POST/sesamesmall.jpg The All-New Sesame Street. 16:31
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1521345,00.html Trouble for Swiss Army knives. 05:25
http://adage.com/news.cms?newsId=45461 McDonald’s is wondering whether redesigning their uniforms will encourage employees to wear their uniformes outside work. 08:08
http://www.leegte.org/works/spatial/medialounge/scrollbar_
composition.htm Scrollbar art installation. 05:36
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/04/tipping.point.tm/
Choosing O’Connor’s successor. I quite
like Grover Norquist in the NYT:
“They don’t need me lobbying on this stuff—they know what
to do … My only recommendation is that they nominate
someone who is 12 or 13 years old.” 09:39