BusinessWeek claims that a re-emphasis on basic research will revitalize US industry. Opening sentence: Name an industry that can produce 1 million new, high-paying jobs over the next three years. You can’t, because there isn’t one. And that’s the problem. … Read More
The Longest Poem in the World takes random Twitter posts and lays them out so they rhyme. Trust me, it’s better than it sounds.
I stopped off at the Iola complex yesterday after dropping off the recycling and getting stung by a yellowjacket. It’s one of my favorite photo spots and a monument to how tuberculosis was handled in the early 1900s. I’ve always … Read More
Hard to believe, but Dick Cheney’s CIA memos don’t show what he said they’d show – that torture prevented another attack on the US. Wow, Dick Cheney lied. Who would have guessed it? Besdes everyone, of course.
MBAs hate the way Craigslist is run. Everyone else loves it. There’s a message in that but you won’t hear it mentioned in business school.
In case you haven’t been able to keep up with the cesspool that is the Greece police department the linked article has a helpful sidebar that list the current suspensions, indictments and convictions for your convenience.
The line of duty deaths of two Buffalo firefighters has got me wondering how technology could be used to prevent such tragedies in the future.
Anke-Eve Goldmann was unusual, to say the least. She was six feet tall, roadraced BMW and other motorcycles, wrote articles about motorcycle racing and also managed to find time to teach elementary school. Thanks to The Vintagent blog for this … Read More
Alex on Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived – The Oatmeal
Tom on Newly discovered amateur video of Challenger disaster
Jack on Newly discovered amateur video of Challenger disaster
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