/ajax:getfullitembody/197/197%3A197Favorite Sites: Arts & Letters Daily. Unashamedly hoity-toity--according to a quote on Wikipedia, it's for "the kinds of people [who are] interested in ideas"--aldaily has been selecting the most interesting, big-subject articles on the web for more than 10 years (apart from a hiatus in 2002 when its parent company went bankrupt). Based on his personal website, it's hard not to wonder whether the founder, Denis Dutton, also inserts hyperlinks when s... <more>
Michael Arrington (of techcrunch) has gotten his hands on messages posted to a google group (set up by google) by ex-Googlers on why they left. He's re-posted a bunch of them on techcrunch. Seems like a PR disaster for Google..what were they thinking, creating an official google group to gripe about Google?
The story of Gaza resident and peace advocate Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish is heartbreaking. NYTimes NYTimes video and article. Kudos to the Times for doing what journalists are supposed to do: expose and illustrate what war really is.
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Is there anything better than Snoop in a gold turban? Or Snoop riding a goofy UFO prop? Or Snoop playing a Keytar (a portmanteau!)?
It's so easy to forget that a) people are still making good art and b) Snoop Dogg's persona is totally compelling. For me to have missed Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction (it's from '07), there must be huge gaps my media intake rotation. Isn't reddit supposed to alert me to amazing stuff like this?
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63 years ago today, a group of five bombers disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle, and the rescue aircraft sent to find them exploded in mid-air. It seems that the group got lost and ran out of gas, but that hasn't stopped a small skirmish between the paranormal investigators and the skeptics.
Thomas Friedman says Bush should appoint Tim Geithner, Obama's Treasury Secretary, right now, to stabilize the markets and provide continuity over the next few months. He also says we should be staying home, eating ramen, and saving our money.
/ajax:getfullitembody/158/158%3A158Rocky Mountain News: "About four times a year, those guilty of noise ordinance violations [in fort Lupton, CO] are required to sit in a room and listen to music from the likes of Manilow, Barney the Dinosaur, and The Platters' crooning 'Only You'."
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