Mar 28, 2009
Jesus Is My Friend
Sonseed was a Christian pop band formed at the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Brooklyn, New York in the late 1970s.
Mar 16, 2009
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Eating From My Hand
In June of 2006 I was replacing empty feeders with clean ones and this hummingbird landed on the feeder as I was carrying it to the pole. I stopped instantly and stood perfectly still because motion will scare hummingbirds away. From this came the clips you will see in this video. It would eat from any feeder or cut flower that I would offer. Someone suggested I try to feed it directly from my palm and success came the first day I tried. This hummingbird continued this behavior until his 2006 migration to Central America. In April of 2007 he returned to the same little plot of land in Louisville, Ky for more of the same behavior.
Mar 14, 2009
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Round and round this goes, with the people committed to saving newspapers demanding to know “If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?” To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model for newspapers to replace the one the internet just broke.
Mar 14, 2009
Amazing
Mar 13, 2009
Suicide bomb blast in Sri Lanka caught on camera - Telegraph
This remarkable sequence of images shows a bomb going off behind a group of people in Sri Lanka.
Mar 13, 2009
The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist
In February 2003, Notarbartolo was arrested for heading a ring of Italian thieves. They were accused of breaking into a vault two floors beneath the Antwerp Diamond Center and making off with at least $100 million worth of loose diamonds, gold, jewelry, and other spoils. The vault was thought to be impenetrable. It was protected by 10 layers of security, including infrared heat detectors, Doppler radar, a magnetic field, a seismic sensor, and a lock with 100 million possible combinations. The robbery was called the heist of the century, and even now the police can’t explain exactly how it was done.
Mar 9, 2009
The Browser
Imagine a site of links chosen for you by very smart British people, including Bob Cottrell and Mary Ann Sieghart. They present some links from MR as well, plus by Jonathan Rauch, Oliver Morton, and other notables. You are much more likely to find something good there than at www.digg.com.
Mar 9, 2009
When No News Is Bad News
As an old saying used to go at the City News Bureau of Chicago, a now-defunct training ground for decades of reporters, “If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out.”
Mar 8, 2009
Credit : The Frontal Cortex
I’ve blogged about this before, but it’s a reminder: one of the reasons credit cards are such a popular form of debt is that they take advantage of some innate flaws in the brain. When we buy something with cash, the purchase involves an actual loss - our wallet is literally lighter. Credit cards, however, make the transaction abstract, so that we don’t really feel the downside of spending money.
Mar 6, 2009
Last rites
We’re uncovering more of the who’s, what’s, when’s, and where’s, but less of the how’s and why’s
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