I kid you not:  I have spent the last 24 hours trying to figure out how I could write a post that would recommend the following book enough.

In the end, I probably can’t.  But I’ll give it a go, because to say nothing would be a capital crime of bookwormdom.

Look, I did something yesterday that I haven’t done, seriously, in about ten years - not ( Read more... )

I promise I’ll get off the political pony soon, but this I gotta say…

Whatever the American media’s hangup with lambasting Senator Obama is, I really wish it would stop.  I don’t mind them bashing politicians - far from it - but their coverage is so unbelievably off-balance, it’s freaking Orwellian.  A little objectivity now and again would be nice ( Read more... )

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While I was on vacation this last weekend, a (new, awesome) friend gave me a copy of Fast Company.  It’s a magazine I’ve liked from afar for a while, but never really get around to reading.  So this one, I read every page of on the flight home.

Excellent magazine, overall.  Highly recommended.

What really blew me away, though - and the reason I ( Read more... )

Finally, somebody said it:  The United States is SO BACKWATER now.  And it’s a crushing disappointment to sci-fi fans like me who, as children, were told we were sitting in the cradle of the future.

Future?  Yeah?  Japan has robots, China has a growing space program while ours is disappearing…the whole U.S. doesn’t have a single Maglev train, but ( Read more... )

If this is true, there's only one thing to say...

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A cool answer in the Ask Metafilter to the question of where to live when the Oilpocalypse hits...the author is one "jefgodesky" of the crashblog Anthropik.  I haven't read his blog (yet), but I like his answers:

1.) Forget agriculture. That's the first mistake so many people make: they try to farm. Farming is what got us here, and it's simply not ( Read more... )