The weatherman’s calling for snow tomorrow!
February 2013
It’s short, funny AND it beautifully illustrates how easy it is to share and collaborate using Google Docs.
Today Kottke has videos from this year’s Windless Kite Festival (a thing!) and last year’s wood planing competition finals in Japan (also a thing!).
Humans are weird and wonderful creatures.
Its struggles are mainly due to onerous congressional mandates:
The USPS, unlike any other organization private or public, is required to pre-fund 75 years’ worth of pensions for employees it has not even yet hired. Without that requirement, it would still be showing a surplus.
Idaho state Sen. John Goedde thinks it’s a good idea. Goedde has introduced a law that would require every high school student in his state to read “Atlas Shrugged” and pass a test on it to graduate from high school.
So let’s take a moment to enjoy his excellent commercials for Miller High Life.
The closest that advertising gets to art.
Here’s Sly Stallone on a possible assault weapons ban:
I know people get (upset) and go, “They’re going to take away the assault weapon.” Who … needs an assault weapon? Like really, unless you’re carrying out an assault. … You can’t hunt with it. … Who’s going to attack your house, a (expletive) army?
via TPM
Our Easter Island moment?
This:
Or this:
See also: Mega myths of the Keystone XL pipeline – High Country News