January 2012
The grandson of a guy who was President before Lincoln thinks Gingrich is a “big jerk.”
At some point, I think we can expect a book and/or movie about this guy.
“Our New Age,” science fiction and futurism on late 1950s funny pages.
A map of the weather on the morning of June 6, 1944.
Times headline: “Winter Jam Canceled Due to Lack of Winter”
I once wondered why Google Maps showed a jeweler in the Pentagon. Apparently, the thing basically contains an entire mall.
Renewables are at a point that they’re cost-competitive with fossil fuels even without subsidy.
Pretty smart to send your drugs using UN diplomatic pouches - until they’re delivered to the UN.
A brief history of emergent love on public transit.
Associates of Ron Paul say that he was hands-on with the newsletters, “signing off on articles and speaking to staff members virtually every day.”
A dog park, from the vantage of a dog-mounted camera.
Politicians in Poland express their unhappiness with ACTA by donning Anonymous / Guy Fawkes masks.
As she flew back to Washington from Dallas, Kennedy’s secretary wrote a list of suspects. Guess who was first.
At 4:15, we were awakened when our neighbor chose to ignore his alarm clock. At 5:20, we were awakened by screams. Fear and confusion is a bad way to wake up. We blinked, listening, hearts racing. We look outside. A house behind ours had lights on in a second floor room; someone in it ran toward the front of the house. On the first floor, a dim orange light flicked off. An untranslatable clunking,...
Dustin Richardson has set a new baseball record, earning a 50-game suspension in the process.
Stork Nest Farm, in the Czech Republic.
The Gingrich SuperPAC has another trailer up, with accusations about a company associated with Romney and Medicare fraud. Slick production values play a role in making it easier to believe.
“The blind trust is an age-old ruse.” Mitt Romney, 1994.
The most and least literate cities in America. Bottom five are in Texas or in California’s Central Valley.
I look forward to the next CNN debate: two hours of melodramatic b-roll and voiceover, followed by letter grades.
There’s something about a mass-produced placard reading “Don’t believe the liberal media!” that’s disconcerting. That word “believe,” the choice-making involved in that. This organization reminds you not to believe certain things. The liberal media is Eastasia. It’s the Times, of course, but today, also Drudge. Which is insane. Insane! Drudge? If the...
This is fascinating. Go ahead. Type. Anywhere.
There appears to be a correlation between being racist or prejudiced and being dumb.
From 2006, a long list of all the reasons NASA thinks we might want a permanent base on the moon.
I can’t help but wonder how Palin would be polling right now.
Smoky, grimy Pittsburgh, 1908. Just above and to the right of center is a then-new Union Station.
Romney totally spaced on including those offshore accounts on his disclosure forms when he launched his campaign. This guy’d lose his head if it weren’t on his neck, or however that saying goes!
The contrast between Time’s US and international covers this week is interesting. (King Leo, incidentally, is Lionel Messi.)
Chinese readers respond to the Times’ Apple stories.
What’s that? You couldn’t make it to Davos this year? Well, let me be your guide to what you’re missing.
Gran Trek.
Hey, whoever put the keyboard shortcut to quit directly next to the one to close? Fuck you.
Nintendo posts its first-ever annual loss. Obvious correlation to Apple’s earnings report earlier this week.
Romenesko tries to figure out if a flood of new Facebook followers are spammers. The results were inconclusive.
Deputy Sheriff Marin’s lunch burrito also contained 24 grams of heroin. Luckily (or not), he knew about it.
An art gallery in Tokyo is displaying thousands of snapshots recovered when the tsunami receded.
As predicted, pointedly mentioning your book’s name after getting into an argument with the President increases sales.
These sports posters from the ’80s are spectacular.
Want to live the Jimmy Buffett lifestyle but don’t want to leave your couch? Good news! This is not a story from 1999, by the way.
Oh, Hill staffers. Always aiming for that Scott Disick wardrobe on a Scott Tissue budget.
Meet Mr. Toilet - a very frank man committed to improving the world’s sanitation.
The New York Public Library has a spectacular online tool allowing you to create animated .gifs from their collection of stereographs.
The clever frame of the contest in Florida - Tea Party vs. cocktail party - is a thin veneer for the real issue: class.
City Fireflies, a video game played on the side of a building in Madrid by anyone walking by.
America’s dark war in East Africa.
A candidate for the presidency in France quotes Shakespeare. Nick Shakespeare.
“Heron.” “Harangue?” “Heron.” “…Hearing?”
Remember when Newt said he had “witnesses” that would refute Marianne’s claims? Well, by “witnesses,” he meant “no one.”
Greg Kelly of “Good Day New York” has been accused of rape. Since his father is police commissioner Ray Kelly, the DA is investigating.
An inevitably for packages, demonstrated by accident: real-time GPS locating.