I’ve collected a variety of links over the past few days. Leading off, The Slacktivist explains the real purpose behind all of the think tanks, institutes, and foundations in Washington DC — unemployment insurance for disgraced or out of power political operatives.
The Homeland Security department has decided that you can carry lighters onto planes [...]
What’s it like to drive a car that was featured on posters plastered over thousands of bedroom walls in the eighties? Edmunds.com is finding out, having purchased a used 1984 Ferrari 308 and subjecting it to a long term road test. Consistently fascinating.
Firefox seems to be picking up market share like crazy in Europe.
Saifedean [...]
Here’s link roundup number two. Before I get started, let me elaborate a bit more on yesterday’s mention of the old link blog. When I said that nobody read it, what I meant was that it got about 10% of the readership of the front page. I was putting more and more energy into [...]
I still haven’t struck the balance I’d like between posting links and posting longer features here. I had the link blog for awhile, but nobody read it, so I gave up on it with the intent of posting the links to the main blog, but my output has diminished significantly. I still track lots of [...]
Turns out the same kind of bugs that were found when Apple released the beta version of Safari 3.0 for Windows are present in Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Windows instant-messaging client Trillian. They’re all related to unsafe handling of malicious URLs. The good news is that none of them worked on my Mac.
These exploits work [...]
Here’s a number that blew me away:
Nineteen percent of meals [and snacks in the U.S.] are eaten in the car right now.
From an interview with Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilmena. (via 3qd)
I eat in the car less than one percent of the time. I would say never, but it’s a [...]
You learn something new every day. Today I learned about correspondent inference theory.
I was telling someone the other day that the iPhone is to the original (1984) Mac as regular cell phones (like my old Motorola PEBL or Sony Ericsson T610) are to DOS. You could get things done with DOS, but the Mac was a heck of a lot friendlier.
I guess I’d say that other smart [...]
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey has posted frequently on the Yahoo Finance message board discussing his company’s stock for years, under a pseudonym. He was outed when the company released documents in response to an FTC antitrust suit.
Orion magazine has a meditation on the vastness of the universe that’s worth thinking on.
“To sense that behind anything that can be experienced,” Einstein once said, “there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness.” [...]