via kottke Highly specialized pleasure vehicles with every convenience of home!? Cargo rockets!? Nuclear tunnel melters!? Cantilevered mountain highways?! …man the days when driving and highways were – literally – paving the path to a Utopian future. Today, of course, they are mainly the bane of urban and suburban living. Most people I know will [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2009
I’m seriously looking forward to the Magic Highways of the future!
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Perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and a fact resume.
And I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the umm, the uh kinda a spineless, a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and a fact resume that’s based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles. via foxnews.com [...]
For some reason, I really like this HTC Touch commercial
via youtube.com Probably because it is so true. … Especially the part when the guy is all yelling at his phone. I do that a lot, even though I also love it.
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Instrument panel of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt is visually disgusting.
via nytimes.com Hmm, let’s see: 11 icons, most sporting a unique visual style. Random alignment of text and graphics. Some 3-d, some flat, some drop-shadowed. At least three different fonts. Text bleeding past the edge of the encasing box. I can’t say I’ve ever seen a worse attempt at data display. Truly awful.
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Who knew? The nuts and bolts of health care costs in the US
This NPR story is a breath of fresh air. Nearly all of the media coverage of the effort to pass health care reform focuses on the political process: How many votes in committee, timelines, poll numbers, bi-partisanship, ‘oh-snap!’ back-and-forth soundbites, right-wing troll death panel comments, etc etc etc. Meanwhile, little or no effort is made [...]
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Infographic of the week: China v. USA by economic measures. Hint: the news is not good.
via nytimes.com
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