Worldprocessor features some gorgeous art/map mashups.
(Via Gridskipper.)
This list of the best newspaper corrections of 2K5 contains some true, true gems.
Like this one, which features the most evocative — if wrong — lede in the history of journalism. Click on the image to read:
And this one’s pretty good, too:
(Via The Taipei Kid.)
WFMY:
Jacksonville, FL — It didn’t take long for students in the 2nd period 7th grade science class at Lake Shore Middle School to realize something was wrong with their substitute teacher.
Now that’s what I call higher education. *Rimshot*
Guess what this is:
Why, it’s a cuttlefish, of course. Duh!
Check out some more Japanese emoticons.
Writer Laura Moser travels to Beijing to get her shoulder fixed.
(Via World Hum.)
I saw “Syriana” last night, which is writer/director Stephen Gaghan’s attempt to do for geo-political oil-related power brokering and international espionage what his film “Traffic” did for America’s war on drugs: i.e. shed light on an unexamined world and explose it warts and all.
Clooney as a hard-bitten CIA spook steals the show. And without revealing […]
Here’re a few new pics to feast your eyes upon.
In this first one, I did not, in fact, remove the screen of my iBook. I took the image using a technique I noticed on Flickr. I simply captured a snapshot of what was behind my computer and then made the image my desktop wallpaper. This […]
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In my most recent Gridskipper dispatch, I examine DC’s current cute animal fixation: giant baby panda Tai Shan. (Be sure to check out the readers’ comments at the bottom.)
Tai+Shan, Butterstick, pandas
AP:
Richard Pryor, the caustic yet perceptive actor-comedian who lived dangerously close to the edge both on stage and off, has died, his ex-wife said Saturday. He was 65.
Pryor died of a heart attack at his home in the San Fernando Valley sometime late Friday or early Saturday, Flyn Pryor said. He had been ill for […]
CNN:
At some point you knew it would happen: The U.S. would draw into a Group of Death at the World Cup.
It finally happened on Friday as the No. 8-ranked Yanks were placed in Group E with three-time world champion Italy, the Czech Republic (ranked No. 2 in the world) and rising African power Ghana.
Here’s the […]
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Wow. Yahoo has bought del.icio.us, the social bookmarking site — and a tool I can’t imagine using the Web without. (Here’s a good del.icio.us tutorial, if you’re interested in learning more about it.)
SEOmoz’s “Beginner’s Guide to SEO” — that’s search engine optimization — is a thorough examination of best practices in ensurating the Web sites are listed effectively in search engines. It’s necessarily a little inside baseball, but if you have a Web site or are curious about how search engines work, it’s worth a look.
SEO, […]
Gawker Media’s Nick Denton has just added a new title to his panoply of blogs (such as Gawker, Lifehacker, Wonkette, Gizmodo, and, of course, Gridskipper). It’s called The Consumerist, and it’s akin to Consumer Reports — but with ample heapings of cynicism and style.
Click for a bigger version — I’m quoted at the top
Thanks to a kind reader for pointing out that my post yesterday about Friends of the Earth’s misleading climate change poster was excerpted in today’s Express (which is the Washington Post’s free daily paper).
They used a snippet in their round-up of DC blogs — it’s […]