Maybe Money Isn’t That Bad
The updated $100 bill design isn’t as bad as some of the shit-talkers are making it out to be.
The updated $100 bill design isn’t as bad as some of the shit-talkers are making it out to be.
Via this article by Fake Steve Jobs (aka Daniel Lyons): “We all know that there’s no fucking way in the world we should have microwave ovens and refrigerators and TV sets and everything else at the prices we’re paying for them. There’s no way we get all this stuff and everything is done fair and [...]
This might be the coolest thing ever: Actually, the coolest thing ever is the BBC miniseries Britain From Above. Especially this:
I just came across this quote of Giuseppe Zangara‘s alleged last words as he was lead to the Electric Chair. Not bad. I’ll have to think of something to have handy if I get the chance to deliver some dramatic last words. “Get to hell out of here, you son of a bitch [spoken to [...]
Some press on Wired about reducing space allotted to car based transit in major cities. Duh, that makes sense. I’d like to see more of this kind of talk.
How about if the debates were filmed and broadcast in black and white? I was just looking at some photos (here) from the first Presidential debates that made me realize that I really love Obama as a person, even though I still intend to vote for Ralph Nader on principal. Holy Jesus, I hope Obama [...]
Found a great post: How to be Creative (via Steve Olsen)
Whew, a big flutter of chatter in the news last week about some recent scientific findings: the gases let off by shower curtains are bad! That’s right folks: those foul, chemical-smelling, plastic-manufactory odors that you smell when you open the package of a new plastic shower curtain are actually noxious gases. No shit! Thank you [...]
Read this today, it’s connected to the way my point of view has been evolving lately. There’s also a nice bridge here between “the nature of things” part of it all and the “why are we in this predicament” view of society at large. I’d been thinking mostly about the first half recently: it’s in [...]
Found this awesome video on Digg: Story of Stuff. It’s a 10 or 20 minute video about production, the supply chain, and consumption suitable for children’s education but with the truth instead of abstractions and suspiciously missing value judgements that I fear most educational material features. I didn’t think I needed to sit through it, but [...]