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Friday, July 25th, 2008A brief history of the Coca-Cola Fiasco that was new coke.
In many ways, the Great Coke Debate revealed something about the current state of the American psyche. In a world of ceaseless change, people cling desperately to the known and the given. The old Latin Mass is gone, the phone company has been broken [...]
Jon Stewart, Daily Show on The New Yorker
Friday, July 18th, 2008from jeff jarvis at Buzz Machine:
Jon Stewart was, of course, brilliant in his defense of satire and The New Yorker:
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Burma - Before and After
Friday, May 16th, 2008At the moment there doesn’t seem to be a lot we can do, until the local rulers decide to allow aid in, without stealing it and without using it for propaganda purposes. However, once NGO’s and other agencies are allowed to operate fully in the areas affected by Cyclone Nargis, they will need all the [...]
Google data center locations
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Pingdom (a paid service that, amongst other things, can alert you when your site is down) put together a map of Google data centers based on approximate information from the unofficial Google Data Center FAQ. From Pingdom :
If you include data centers that are under construction, Google has 19 locations in the US where they [...]
Barack Obama’s Race Speech
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
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In Tuesday’s speech, Obama has drawn a distinction between his religious connection with Mr. Wright, which should be none of the voters’ business, and having a political connection, which would be very much their [...]
Chicago - Indoor Drag Racing
Thursday, January 24th, 2008So it gets cold in Chicago, Illinois. So cold, in fact,that “the asphalt strips of US30 and Union Grove and Byron are covered in five foot drifts” of snow. So what did the desperate street racers of early ’60s Chicago do ?
Head indoors for some Drag Racing. Photos as well.
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helvetica and arial
Sunday, January 20th, 2008The New York Museum of Modern Art is running a year-long special exhibit, 50 Years of Helvetica. It’s a tiny exhibit tucked away in a corner of MoMA, but even a small exhibit provides ample physical evidence of the impact that the Helvetica font has had on the world.
There’s even a full length documentary on [...]
The 10th Anniversary of THAT Drudge Exclusive
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Guide Fawkes blogs on how ten years ago to the day, Matt Drudge ran his story on Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and changed not just Clinton’s presidency, but also the media.
While Drudge was not and is not a blog, he did lead the revolution to online media. Drudge still single handedly makes and [...]
Original SimCity source code released under GPL
Thursday, January 17th, 2008The original SimCity is nearly 20 years old. Now the SimCity source code has been released (under the GPL) for anyone who wants to port it run on other devices or operating systems, or wants to modify the game to create their own version.
Apparently, the decision to release the the SimCity source under a [...]
National Review on Obama victory
Saturday, January 5th, 2008The National Review has an interesting comment on Obama winning the caucus vote in a state which is 90% white:
Obama’s immense victory. Yes, it’s early, yes, a lot could happen. But a man who could not have used certain restrooms forty years ago is in the center ring, not as a freak in the manner [...]
