January 2010
10 posts
and people make fun of me for eating chicken →
haggis is made from sheep innards — heart, liver, lungs and fat — which are mixed with spices and oatmeal, then cooked in the sheep’s stomach
“And so it is rather bizarre that the first widespread change in how people spell...”
– On Language - The Keypad Solution - NYTimes.com
The digital world, she said, “made it very easy... →
“Driving is real important to a lot of the kids in the culture, but it is not the central focus like it was 25 years ago,” said Tom Pecoraro, owner of I Drive Smart, a Washington area drivers’ education program, who added that plenty of his students are older teens. “They have so many other things to do now,”
“This is an emergency brake, so you think, because it’s an emergency, ‘I will...”
– new york times - http://s.nyt.com/u/ruD
WatchArt Beat | Andrew Moore: ‘Detroit Disassembled’ | Online NewsHour | PBS
“When the U.S. Senate was created, the most populous state, Virginia, had 10...”
– The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | How America Can Rise Again | James Fallows
“if you make something fabulous enough, people will happily shell out the dough...”
– The New Country Club | Pop Culture | SPLICETODAY.com
looking forward and back with Esther Dyson, others
BETTER LINK: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june10/technology_01-04.html (emailing from itunes on iphone created that crappy link - FAIL)
excellent PBS segment: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=78304589
'How Visa, Using Fees Behind Its Debit Card,...
debit transactions are forecast to overtake cash purchases by 2012 http://fluentnews.com/s/22698623