Archive for April, 2005
Pyramid
$2.5 million for a pyramid that isn’t even a pyramid.
{design, tufte, food pyramid}
Peking Man
This post was occasioned by a news article, discovered on Howard French’s blog, about a recent Chinese study which “found that Chinese ancestors set off from northeast Africa about 50,000 years ago.” This story is momentous not so much for its contribution to science as it is with regard to the politics of race in […]
Viable
So much discussion about the Middle East is backward-looking, apportioning guilt and blame, while very little seems to ask what would be necessary in order to establish a lasting peace. Although I personally have always been skeptical that a two-state solution could ever work in the long run, everyone seems in agreement that it is […]
Anthropology Ballot
This is a message for all those members of the American Anthropology Association out there:
I admit it, I normally throw my AAA ballot in the circular file. But this year I didn’t, because I knew that there were some important labor related issues at stake. However, as I sat down to vote, I realized just […]
Public Spending
There has been a fair amount of discussion lately about how nationalized health care actually works better than the crazy system we have here in the US Ezra Klein profiled France’s system, and Kevin Drum compared US citizens on government programs to those who depend on private insurance plans. One thing nobody has looked at […]
Tweaked
I tweaked the font settings and a few other things. I think it makes my blog more readable. If you feel otherwise, please let me know in the comments.
{css, usability}
Horror Movie
No need to see House of Wax, here is a 30 second horror movie that will scare the shit out of you!
{documentary, video, nationalism, india}
PimpMySafari.com
First there was Pimp My Firefox (explanation here), now there is PimpMySafari.com. I’ve just gotten Firefox working the way I like, with all my favorite extensions. I especially love scrapbook, which has, more than anything since tabbed browsing, changed the way I surf the web. (Link to NY Times article.) But Safari 1.3 is supposedly […]
Sin Ciné
I was surprised by Sin City. I thought I would be bored by the story but enjoy the visuals. After all, so much had been made about how brilliantly (and literally) Rodriguez had adapted the imagery of Frank Miller’s comic book to the screen.
My experience was the opposite: I enjoyed the narrative, which (despite its […]
Sleeptracker
In the comments to a post I wrote about various devices designed to get you out of bed in the morning, Tim May directed my attention to the Sleeptracker Alarm Watch.
The SLEEPTRACKER watch is unique in that while it tells you the time and has a built-in alarm like every other digital watch, this one […]
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