Wired:
A new generation of supersonic private jets could trigger a boom in luxury high-speed flight — without the sonic boom normally associated with breaking the sound barrier.
Lockheed Martin’s advanced Skunk Works unit is designing a small, 12-seat passenger jet that would travel at 1,200 mph (Mach 1.8) but which would produce only a whisper of […]
I’ve got a new post over at Gridskipper; it’s about Bangkok’s quirkiest online city guide.
John Mark Karr. Um, yeah — turns out he was making everything up. Dude didn’t kill JonBenet. Looks like he’ll head back to Cali to face those kiddie porn charges after all. I think it’s safe to say that his teaching career is over, however.
Elsewhere, the Bangkok Post’s Erika Fry recently examined Thailand’s efforts to […]
Seth Mydans had an informative story in yesterday’s IHT; it’s about the current state of democracy under Thailand’s caretaker prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Key passage:
Sounding desperate, Thailand’s harried leader, Thaksin Shinawatra, wrote to President George W. Bush last spring with what sounded like an SOS. Thai democracy, he said, is under threat.
“Key democratic institutions, such […]
Bikes of Burden is a coffee table book featuring images of Vietnamese motorbike drivers hauling around enormous amounts of various and sundry items. I saw a copy in a bookstore here in Bangkok recently; it’s fantastic. The author is Hans Kemp, a Dutch photographer. Here’s a gallery of some pics from from the book. This […]
Here’s a photo I snapped of Wat Arun the other night. It was raining, and the mist made for an eerie effect.
CelebSafari: “Community submitted, non-professional photos of celebrities out and about.”
Come for the Brangelina and the Christopher Walken, stay for the Weird Al and Steve Martin.
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Tim Kreider had an amusing op-ed in yesterday’s NY Times regarding the recent controversy surrounding Pluto’s classification as a planet.
Pluto is what my old astronomy textbook rather judgmentally called a “deviant,” and I’ve always felt a little defensive on its behalf.
I’ve long regarded Saturn’s misty tantalizing moon Titan as the Homecoming Queen of the […]
Thanks to Google Quechua, Indigenous people in the Andes can now search the Web in their native tongue.
Economist:
Estimates of the prevalence of Quechua vary widely. In Peru, there are thought to be 3m to 4.5m speakers, with others in Bolivia and Ecuador. The language has long been in slow decline, chiefly because the children of […]
Two reader submissions to share:
Armor of God PJs:
The whole Armor of God Pajama set will help your children to depend on God to protect them from their fears, doubts, and uncertainties at night so their sleep can be restful and peaceful.
Thanks for the link, Dave T.
And from Benny C:
AP:
TURNER, Maine –Residents are wondering if an […]
British novelist John Baker (pictured above) asked a number of writers/bloggers the following questions:
1. Why do you blog?
2. Which author and/or book has most influenced you?
3. Which three blogs do you most visit?
4. Why do you read fiction?
5. What makes you laugh?
Here’re my answers.
Three tech updates for you:
1) Skype. It rules. But you knew that. I’m all up on it. Finally got a headset and mic and am no longer pussyfooting around. So hit me up VoIP-style. My Skype ID is newleypurnell. (And yes, I know I’m like five years late with the whole calling-over-the-Web thing, but still.)
2) […]
John Burdett, author of two excellent novels about Bangkok, had an informative op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times. He says that there’s a reason delinquent foreigners come to Thailand — and that the country has some endemic problems of its own:
The story of the cute white girl in the red tartan bonnet who had been […]
Thanks to A for passing along this site, which details some of Karr’s sicko Usenet postings as well as a mirrored copy of his (similarly creepy) teaching resume.
This case gets stranger by the day. Now there’s a potential link to a yearbook inscription Karr made 20 years back.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, […]