December 2007
17 posts
End of the Year Synopsis →
2007 is dragging itself into its grave and this time of the year is usually a time of reflection. It is also a time of lists, best albums, best gadgets, best whatever. So I’ll do a bit of both. What did I do this year?
Well, I started writing a blog on a regular basis, and […]
An American in Iran - The New York Review of Books →
Imam Khomeini International in Tehran looks much like any big new airport, except that its long corridors bear posters declaring this the Year of National Unity and Islamic Solidarity, rather than ads for lipstick and perfume. Still, it does not take long
Wired News - AP News →
An MIT initiative called “OpenCourseWare” makes virtually all the school’s courses available online for free - lecture notes, readings, tests and often video lectures. Strang’s Math 18.06 course is among the most popular, with visitors downloading his lec
Best of Salon 2007 | Salon News →
Editor’s note: In celebration of the new year ahead, we decided to dip into our archives and present some of our favorite stories from the past year. Many of these articles got a huge readership when they originally appeared, but popularity wasn’t the onl
Squidfingers / Patterns →
MakeUseOf.com | Cool Websites, Software and... →
Lot’s of nifty web-related stuff.
Neil Gaiman - Home →
Who Killed Benazir? (Updated) | Danger Room from... →
Al-Qaeda has already claimed credit for the assassination of Benzair Bhutto, Pakistan’s former prime minister. But this crime has plenty of suspects — any combination of whom might have been working together. Here’s a line-up of the potential killers..
Cronenberg Drifts From Tech Horror, but Shocks... →
Rainy, too
Damn, now it’s not only grey and cloudy, it also rainy - what an awesome winter…
The Practical Nomad blog →
Prior Permission From Government to be Required... →
Stephen Fry's Blog →
Gang Violence in LA (LA Weekly Article) →
Whew, this is some heavy stuff:On New Year’s Eve so much automatic weapons fire pours into Watts’ airspace that LAX air traffic control must divert the flight path of incoming planes. The U.S. military sends its medics to train at local trauma hospitals because the conditions in their trauma units so resemble live warfare. At a community meeting I attended in March 2006, LAPD Chief William Bratton...
Dept. of Labor: Strike Beards: The Talk of the... →