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Saturday November 17, 2007
Deep space Saturday
- If you’re ever in deep space without a pressure suit, exhale. You have two minutes to live, but if there’s oxygen in your lungs they’ll rupture.
- You didn’t know about it, you don’t care about it, and I haven’t even watched it yet, but here it is anyway, just so I can say I linked to it later on: Quarterlife.
- A little fashion photography. Take a look — it won’t kill you!
- Why does a salad cost more then a big-mac? Because the US government subsidizes corn and soybean production, which lead quite directly to lower-cost junk food. “Fruit and vegetable farmers, on the other hand, receive less than 1 percent of government subsidies.”
- Some real-world observations about quality and manufacturing in China.
- Earthrise/Earthset.
- The Mailer/McLuhan debate.
- If you don’t click this link, Dick Cheney will shoot you in the face.
- How to build a cable release and light-activated release for Canon SLRs.
- Glimpse of the forthcoming Firefox 3.
- New (last week) Malcom Gladwell.
- Zeitgeist and response.
- A survey of digital tampering with news photographs. “Redbook’s editor in chief Stacy Morrison said, ‘The retouching we did on Faith Hill’s photo for the July cover of Redbook is completely in line with industry standards.’”
- Hanging out on the space station (you’ll want to mute your sound before clicking).
- Iraq hotel reviews.
- Lou Reed ’74: Walk on the Wild Side and interview.
- Thank you for making it to the end, you pathetic, needy little punk. Now take what you deserve: What celebrities are watching on YouTube.
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That Malcolm Gladwell article is fantastic. I’ve only read his books, can anyone confirm the stuff in the New Yorker is as good as that?
Carlos~ check this out.
Thanks, Alesh – it’s interesting to see a video someone I’ve read a decent amount of in person.
That TED Talks site always makes me unspeakably jealous at the attendees. What I’d give to go to that stupid conference.
Carlos~
I dunno… the talks always knock me on my ass, but it seems that I’m getting close to 90% of the experience seeing the webcasts, and physical attendance doesn’t add much. I’m sure it’s still great to go, though.
(btw, when I watched the above link the audio and video separated a little. The YouTube version of the talk doesn’t seem to have that problem, but maybe it was just that one connection.)