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I have one in my pillow fort.

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:22 GMT

The Economist: The World in 2010

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:09 GMT

In 2010, Obama will have a miserable year, NATO may lose in Afghanistan, the UK gets a regime change, China needs to chill, India&os;s factories will overtake its farms, Europe risks becoming an irrelevant museum, the stimulus will need an exit strategy, the G20 will see a challenge from the "G2", African football will unite Korea, conflict over natural resources will grow, Sarkozy will be unloved and unrivalled, the kids will come together to solve the world&os;s problems (because their elders are unable), technology will grow ever more ubiquitous, we&os;ll all charge our phones via USB, MBAs will be uncool, the Space Shuttle will be put to rest, and Somalia will be the worst country in the world. And so the Tens begin.

The Economist: The World in 2010.

Want to change the world? There's nothing to it.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:15 GMT

This YouTube video seems to break my browser. Does it play alright for anyone else?

Hasta la vista, Gertrude Chataway.

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:56 GMT

Veto is a four-letter word (google quickview, here&os;s the PDF):.Governor Schwarzenegger of California, at odds with the state legislature but ever the poet, vetoes Assembly Bill 1176 with a nice little acrostic.

This Much I Know

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:33 GMT

In The Guardian&os;s This Much I Know, celebrities share the lessons they have learned in life.

They sure don't make nostalgia like they used to anymore.

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:42 GMT

Punctuality, privacy, dead time, concentration: all dead or dying at the hands of the Internet, according to this list in the Daily Telegraph.

Only at festivals with no Wi-Fi signals can the gullible be tricked into believing that David Hasslehoff [sic] has passed away.

VIMBY?

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:52 GMT

Suburban farming, an idea whose time may have come. Short and sweet SLYT from the Wall Street Journal about people growing herbs and vegetables in their own yards in American suburbia.

I saw a cool video so I thought I'd Post-It.

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:32 GMT

A nice stop motion video with sticky notes.

Going Dutch

Mon, 04 May 2009 03:20 GMT

[E]ven if you are unemployed you still receive a base amount of [vacation money] from the government, the reasoning being that if you can't go on vacation, you'll get depressed and despondent and you'll never get a job.
[...]
But does the cartoon image of [the Dutch system] — encapsulated in the dread slur "socialism," which is being lobbed in American political circles like a bomb — match reality? Is there, maybe, a significant upside that is worth exploring? [...] I think it's worth pondering how the best bits might fit.

After a year and a half of living in the Netherlands, American writer Russell Shorto compares the Dutch "welfare state" to the tax, health care and social security systems of the United States.

in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:58 GMT

Should you find yourself wandering around the city of Leiden, the Netherlands sometime, you may notice some curious markings on the city&os;s walls.

These Muurgedichten ("Wall Poems") adorn many of the town&os;s streets (clickable map), and many English-language poets are represented: one John Keats, for instance, inside a bookshop; Dylan Thomas, E. E. Cummings, W.B. Yeats, some guy called William Shakespeare, or this ode to Charlie Parker by American William Waring Cuney.