Telescopic Text

Space travel could get a little, um, awkward

“No less an authority than Kiefer Sutherland recalls that...”
— Ari Kelman, The Edge of the...

“My sense is that western culture would be a damn sight...”
— Merlin Mann

“Humans suffer from bright’n’shiny complex, where we’re...”
— Rands In Repose

NY attorney general gets more ISPs to block...

BBC: Teenager finds bat asleep in bra

“The White House is scrambling to contain a diplomatic fiasco...”
— Joshua Keating, FP Passport

“An Edison bulb, in a velvet-fronted panel set behind a...”
— Andy Ihnatko (on Twitter)

Cabaret Brewed Chocolate

“You could blame consumerism as one thing that’s...”
— Andrew Stanton in Christianity...

“Let’s ignore, for the moment, the absurdity of...”
— The Atlantic, “A...

Rumplo

“The US does not know whether to tax energy or subsidise it,...”
— Clive Crook (FT.com)

Roth 2000XR Motorboard

Lackadaisy

“It’s somehow less amusing than it should...”
— A. O. Scott (The New York...

Testing

Hey, I have a Tumblr log, don’t I? Posting may resume again sometime soon.

“The net is phenomenological. If you do a letter-perfect...”
— Bruce Baugh (via Making...

“What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say...”
— Colin Powell

The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats

Fuego: most unnecessarily cool-looking...

“Cruft is the stuff that accumulates on code over time. Cruft...”
— MarsDefenseMinister (on...

“We can categorically state that we have not released...”
— Major Mike Shearer, UK...

A Letter to Optimus Prime From His GEICO Auto...

Inform 7 Code Poem Challenge

“All told, the launch looks like it is going according to...”
— Kara Swisher

Crooked Timber: iPhone watch

David Pogue: "The iPhone Matches Most of Its...

First in Line for iPhone

The Failed States Index 2007

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

Sudan threatens to cut off the world's...

“No matter what else I do, my tombstone will be a giant...”
— Rupert Holmes

The Morning News - 2007 Editors’ Awards for...

Zagat's fast food and chain restaurant...

Are We Witnessing the Death of Personal...

“How is it that the federal government loses so many...”
— John Paczkowski

Business magazine fails to heed its own tech...

Trimming the attention sails

“Uh-huh. And I’m busy constructing a bamboo-and-wicker...”
— Teresa Nielsen-Hayden, on Tim...

Seen on Slashdot

Arevos: Beryl and Compiz [two Linux desktop rendering systems] seem more flexible than their proprietary counterparts. Do you know if Aqua or Aero have a plugin system that enables one to add third party effects to the graphics system? Could I write a plugin for either desktop that would make my windows "wobble" when moving them around? Or explode in a shower of sparks when closed?
Jalefkowit: That's correct. Unlike proprietary systems, Linux has no mechanism to protect you from your own bad taste.

“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the...”
— Kurt Vonnegut, from God Bless...

The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel

Joan of Arc Relics Are Actually Egypt Mummy...

Hot times in the Solar System

Internet Access CAPTCHAs

“Laws of Serendipity: In order to discover anything, you...”

Palatino Sans

"It starts with Adobe CS3 Month's Salary...

Radley Balko: Reality Loses Out to Dystopia

Blogs, sexism and the dark side of anonymity

Design Schools: Please Start Teaching Design...

Are Designers The Enemy Of Design?

“English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We...”
— James D. Nicoll

Trained in the Ways of Men

Bose Acoustimass: Better Profits Through...

Jonathan Lethem on plagiarism: "The Ecstasy...

Digital Bedouins

While this has been covered on Slashdot, I figured I’d link to SFGate’s article on...

Big Government Libertarianism

Cato’s Tyler Cowen muses on The Paradox of Libertarianism. The older story of “big...

Carlos Santana to Open Mexican Restaurant...

The Onion: Apple Unveils New...

Sort of like "Night of the Lepus," but with...

Seasonal Chef: farmers' market reports and...

The Second Life Liberation Army

Second Life’s in-world terrorism and the struggle for digital rights: Some Second Life users...

The Boring Store: NOT a Secret Agent Supply...

Former Canadian defense minister: UFO science...

Photoshop as a web application

Touchscreens Everywhere

Steven Berlin Johnson thinks Apple will put touch screens on all its displays this year. Sounds...

What was that about the rising tide...

McClatchy Newswire: U.S. economy leaving record numbers in severe poverty. Worker productivity has...

Progressive Florida

The city of Largo (where I lived for all of two months) fired its city manager following the...

Robert Reich: Why the Stock Market Tumbled

Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart

Still no paperless office?

And on the same theme as the previous post, sort of: Gizmodo reports on RFID staples.

Say Everything

This article on a generation gap in private versus public life in New York magazine hits a few...

The Snowflake Method for Writing a Novel

“I think we’re gradually moving away from the age of...”
— Jakob Lodwick