12.2
Two Laments on Mumbai
The Anonymous Antagonist, “muse awoken”, pens a response to one woman’s lament on the violence that exploded in Mumbai last week.
7.17
The Beatles & CT Scans
What is the connection between The Beatles and CT scans? Glad you asked. a la Kottke.
5.16
Portion Size, Then and Now
Waist sizes in the U.S. have increased right alongside portion sizes. Have you ever seen an old coffee cup? Maybe you’ve seen one at a garage sale and marveled at it’s diminutive size. Twenty years ago a cup of coffee was … well … a cup. 8oz. Makes sense. (via kottke)
5.9
9 Years
Think about that — in just nine years, the specs that then described Apple’s top-of-the-line desktop computer now describe their phone.
–– John Gruber of Daring Fireball “BlackBerry vs. iPhone”
5.3
Happy Birthday, SPAM
Mark your calendars. Today marks the 30th anniversary of the first SPAM message. It went out to 393 recipients. Years later, 61 billion SPAM messages were sent per day in October 2006. Feel free to send this out to thousands of your closest friends.
4.30
Ben Stein: Revisionist Historian
the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
–– Ben Stein
Ben Stein, spinning history on the Trinity Broadcasting Network
Ben Stein, in addition to being known as the history teacher on “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, is the man behind Expelled. (via Fire & Knowledge)
4.29
A History & Explanation of the Ampersand
In “Our Middle Name” type foundry Hoefler & Frere-Jones drop a little history on the oft-used and ancient character known as the ampersand.
Warning: type geeks only. (via Daring Firefball)
12.29
NYT Photo Essay: At the Scene: The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Some are rather graphic. All are immensely tragic and sad. The images of her waving at the crowd before the blast seem, knowing what we do now, eerie and full of portent as if one was watching a horror movie. I want to yell at the screen and tell her to look out.
The essay. By John Moore.
Via: Daring Fireball
9.20
President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin…
President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin The archives are open…way open.
