Archive for August, 2009

Signs of the times

Monday, August 31st, 2009

At the state fair I did not see one single booth, sign, button or political t-shirt in favor of health care reform. Not even at the DFL (Democratic Farmer Labor party, which is how you say “Democratic party” in Minnesota) booth, although I didn’t scrutinize it. Nor did I walk down every street, [...]

Link roundup

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Time to clear my browser tabs.
I like today’s bing.com homepage picture (yep, I’ve been using Bing for about half of my searches. It’s nice having a useful second opinion, especially on obscure topics)
Everything you heard about Katrina was wrong
All of the “too big to fail” banks are now far, far, far bigger than [...]

Zen comedy

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Today’s Dilbert is amazing:

A less experienced cartoonist would stop at panel 2. “Ha, I got a gag, I can’t believe I thought of something funny. Let me draw this thing before I ruin it or forget it.”
This strip reminds me of one of my current interests in photography: multiple subjects / [...]

Australia committed to making the same mistakes as US and UK

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Australia committed to making the same mistakes as US and UK