Factory farming of salmon in Chile led to a virus that will reduce their salmon exports by 78% this year BusinessWeek reminds us of the 50 ugliest cars produced in the last 50 years Wired tries to convince us that doing anything but what you are suppose to be will make you more productive You can now […]
Grape Nuts, the not-so-popular cereal brand, is just finely chopped up bread As many as 300 new golf courses may open between now and 2020 in China’s Hainan province The resurgence of classic board games in the US attributed to the economy’s downturn. No mention of the economics of the indie board game scene Information is Beautiful’s 2-dimensional […]
Seattle vegans have a lot of options for Sunday brunch Simon Page’s prints for the International Year of Astronomy Measuring traffic on the web is hard for 3rd party tracking companies Conan O’Brien is on Twitter (hat tip: Phil )
Peter Gabriel’s new album of cover material, Scratch My Back, is “mesmerizingly awful” Wired’s Clive Thompson reminds those dangerous folks who text while driving that they could just take mass transit instead Warren Ellis reminds us that a bunker is a still bunker What YouTube taketh away it giveth back in 30 minutes. Internet still goes crazy A Bill […]
Grateful Dead & Academia Previously rumored, now confirmed: Starbucks rolls out single-cup “pour-over” coffee on March 9th, nationwide” Web-wizard Shaun Inman is branching out out into iPhone video games Mozilla Thunderbird’s plans for 2010 include becoming a self-sustainable business Federal government hands Ohio money for new trains, tracks and passenger service stations but the state legislature doesn’t seem to […]
Boeing’s 787 flight test site has a leaderboard showing each test plane, number of flights and total of number of hours flown. The airplane’s identification number is a link to a 3rd party flight tracking service that provides a history of flights, with dates, previous route maps and live tracking when it is in the […]
Vivid account of Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park Laboratory, located in New Jersey, from 1876 to 1886 Is Adobe Flash ready for touchscreen devices?
Solitary Confinement, by Jan Stürmann (video, ~6 minutes) Popular Science picks their favorites from the 2010 International Toy Fair in New York. The LEGO carbonite-frozen Han Solo figurine commemorating the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite Middle-class America just wants their hand-out already More Photoshop at 20: Recreating Photoshop 1.0.7 on the iPhone
Adobe Photoshop turns 20 Window’s users in the European Union will soon be given a choice of web browsers Hopeful British interns pay up to $5700 for work experience at dying publishing institution Condé Nast. The Guardian has some additional details Apple’s AppStore is taking off the pasties
HTML5 is doing just fine. Maybe Cholesterol-busting wonder drugs, those that supposedly help prevent a heart attacks, increase chances diabetes The Plastic Ono Band reunites for Yoko Ono’s birthday Two-time Olympic gold metal winner, Shaun White, on how he chooses which companies to lend his likeness too The “godfather of rap” is back and it probably will be televised.