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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,2065858,
00.html “It takes a special kind of incompetence to create a restaurant with dysfunctional tables.” I love the British press’s negative reviews! Suka is run by Jeffrey Chodorow, of the Frank Bruni/Jeffrey Chodorow spat. 20:53

http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/592.cfm Managua, in Nicaragua, a city of 2 million people, has functioned without formal street addresses since an earthquake over 30 years ago. (Old story, but this still seems to be the case.) 12:19

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/04/webserver-in-bash.html I like this: when Google employee #23, creator of Gmail, suggester of the phrase “Don’t Be Evil,” can’t get to sleep at night, he writes webservers in bash, and then posts them to his blog! 12:14

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=339291829&size=o Megaton ratings of various nuclear bombs. This partly answers the question of why, if nuclear weapons are so bad, does Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only still exist, but people still live there?

In 1960, a suspicious President Eisenhower sent an envoy to the SAC’s headquarters in Omaha to check out their remoured-to-be-excessive targetting plans. A city that closely resembled Hiroshima in size and industrial concentration was slated to be hit by one 4.5 megaton bomb, plus three more 1.1 megaton bombs in case the first bomb didn’t go off. The bomb that destroyed Hiroshima was just 12.5 kilotons. (From Fred Kaplan’s The Wizards of Armageddon.) 15:17

http://www.google.com/history Google search of all the pages you’ve ever visited. You need to have the Google Toolbar installed. Must require a really nasty amount of computing power to do a custom search for every user. 11:20

http://www.physorg.com/news95954919.html Human being can apparently run further and faster than any other animal. “All together, Lieberman said, these adaptations allowed us to relentlessly pursue game in the hottest part of the day when most animals rest. Lieberman said humans likely practiced persistence hunting, chasing a game animal during the heat of the day, making it run faster than it could maintain, tracking and flushing it if it tried to rest, and repeating the process until the animal literally overheated and collapsed. … Most animals would develop hyperthermia — heat stroke in humans — after about 10 to 15 kilometers, he said.” 23:14

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15design.t.html Some nice small-living-space design ideas in this profile of an architect’s 550-square-foot apartment. (See the photographs.) 21:37

https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol50no4/html_files/prisnors.html CIA account of two CIA operatives shot down over China on their first mission in 1952, and held captive for 20 years. 12:03

http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2007/04/06/askthepilot227/
Account of the deadly crash between two Boeing 747s on the runway at Tenerife, 30 years on. 22:24

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Simmons#Reggie_Cleveland_
All-Stars Sports writer Bill Simmons’s list of white professional sports players with black-sounding names. (A few other amusing lists above and below.) 21:37