March 2012
2 posts
“Foxconn bad. iPhone bad. Sign a petition. Now you’re good,” Minter says. “That’s...”
– From NPR http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/ieconomy/acclaimed-apple-critic-made-details
Mike Daisey has now admitted on record to having made up most of the details of his Apple-Is-So-Evil story he has been hypnotizing the media with (and me for that matter.)
This is why things stories like...
AIDS: Why Africa suffers for the West’s sins →
It is really amusing to me that this is in Salon. I seem to remember Salon and like-minded Western media lambasting the Pope over his declaration that condom use is not the best way to curb the spread of HIV in Africa (and a quick Google search returned page after page of Salon’s open blog doing exactly this). And yet, in the Salon article linked:
But Westerners had condoms on their minds....
February 2012
5 posts
January 2012
22 posts
Question for Climbers: How to hike/camp with a...
Does anyone have some practical advice/experience for packing and hauling a crashpad along with your pack for a multi-day hike?
Rice Tea
I discovered rice tea when I was in Seoul. It helped carry me through that all-too-common travel nightmare of having a head cold in the capital city of a foreign country 25 miles from its crazy and nuclear weapon brandishing neighbor on the same day that it decides to provoke said neighbor by staging military drills just off the coast. Not the greatest day of travel I’ve ever had, but the...
Belay On: OK in all honesty...PIPA is not that... →
The problem with PIPA is not what it targets—none of the strong critics of PIPA (or SOPA) oppose targeting piracy. The problem with PIPA is that there is no real recourse against a copyright holder who makes a false copyright claim (we’ve already seen the result of this from the DMCA, where plenty of fair use videos were taken down from, e.g. YouTube, because of erroneous complaints on...
Yesterday
The snow was just starting to fall as Bonnie and I set out from the lower parking lot, her new dog-hiking pack shuffling from side to side as we walked. After a short period, we came across a house in the woods. Out in front, standing guard? No; loafing around, was a golden lab, probably not more than two years old, judging by the spring in his step. No owner was looking for him, and I walked on...
“We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, born today in 1892. (via thelibrarianontherun)
December 2011
6 posts
Best Google Image Search Terms Ever! →
November 2011
6 posts
College Costs
These can’t be completely directly compared for various reasons (like different years of reporting, for instance), but here it goes. I have been hearing a lot lately about how much better the cost of education is overseas (for instance, college education is basically free in Germany! etc.).
So how do these other countries afford to send all those kids to college? I had a hunch the...
October 2011
9 posts
Open Season on Ice
It snowed last night, and we are going to get up to 5 inches this weekend. Ice climbing season is just around the corner… So excited!
shelbysmith asked: You would be very proud of my new place of employment. In the student rec center there's an entire rock climbing center with walls of varying degrees of difficulty and squishy tire floors in case you fall. When I saw it, it made me think of you and Katherine and how you'd love to try it out.
