RFK Jr.’s piece on climate change in Vanity Fair.
Carbon dependence has eroded our economic power, destroyed our moral authority, diminished our international influence and prestige, endangered our national security, and damaged our health and landscapes. It is subverting everything we value.
Read it all here.
But Baracky is officially the best Barack video out.
That’s a gross oversimplification of a link I’m grabbing from DaringFireball.
Paul Graham’s Be Good talk from the 2008 Startup School.
Now I’m not in the tech field. I’m not involved with any of that beyond a very rudimentary understanding of it, and a friend who’s more in that world than I am. But I think the foundation of the Graham’s talk is sound and applies to more than just internet/tech startups.
For me, I’m relaying some of the funny, so here’s the quote (a footnote of the talk) I’m relaying:
Users dislike [Microsoft's] new operating system [Vista] so much that they’re starting petitions to save the old one [XP]. And the old one was nothing special. The hackers within Microsoft must know in their hearts that if the company really cared about users they’d just advise them to switch to OSX
Go Go OS X!
This is no time to be prejudiced one versus the other. Use the Doomsday vault (f the seeds, save the people) kind of like Deep Impact. And then hire the world’s best deep core driller and his team (because astronauts “don’t know jack about drilling” and you know drilling is “an art… a science” [who wrote that dialog? Why do I even like this movie?]) to fly to the asteroid and plant a nuke (because we can’t just shoot it because that would be like shooting a speeding train with a beebee gun) like Armageddon.
1 in 450! You have less a chance of winning the lottery than you do of an asteroid hitting the earth in 2036. Which isn’t ALL that far off. All that has to happen is the asteroid hit one of the 40,000 satellites around Earth. I wonder if space trash counts, because we have a LOT of it. Though an envelop of dust, like “nuclear winter” might help cool the planet from all the global warming (I kid, though there’s an argument for putting more particles in the atmosphere, similar to the particles we used to output with leaded gasonline, to help reflect radiation, etc. but that’s a whole other post.)
Link.
wow…. decapitation just under gay kissing. Not gay sex, just kissing. Sheesh.
Didn’t even wait to finish crapping up the planet, we already started crapping up space.
Maybe it’ll be hit with some mutant symbiote or crazy radiation and form into some kind of transformer trash robot hell bent on earthly domination!!!
Arguing over what gang affiliation a 4 year old should grow up with? Maybe it’s the new “what religion to raise the child in” argument. I should ask all my friends with babies (that number is ever increasing, weird. Though I guess I am at the age where that sort of thing will be a more regular occurence) if they have this argument.
I have no idea if this is the first, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it. Pregnant Husband.
Labor of Love - The Advocate.
And an article from the NY Times about transgendered individuals in college.
When Girls Will Be Boys - NYTimes.
Two short pieces on the fonts used in the campaign. (Obama uses Gotham.)
A Font We Can Believe In - Helveticafilm.com blog
Hoefler & Frere-Jones (creators of Gotham) quickly analyzing the font choices of the frontrunners. Link.
Tuna Calculator | Environmental Working Group
I eat WAY more than this says I should. There are some periods I go without tuna, but it’s normally a staple, since I’m WAY lazy and it’s so easy to just pop a can.