February 2009
26 posts
Latvia data point of the day →
FROM new blogger Charlemagne: Latvians snapped up 26 Lexus cars in January 2008. Last month, they bought three. Henceforth, we will call this the Baltic drive goods index.
Feb 24th
Obama’s Elf by Michael Schlingmann | Cartoon Brew:... →
Feb 22nd
A Guide To Alternative London Maps →
Prompted by a reader comment last week, we thought it’d be handy to have a directory of websites containing maps of London. First, a special mention to two sites. MapTube London acts…
Feb 19th
Intellipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Feb 18th
Feb 18th
Facebook reverts to previous Terms of Service... →
best quote: “like you were going to write Finnegans Wake on someone’s wall or some shit?”  
Feb 18th
And now, William Shatner →
Shared by Paresh …I think the Internet just stopped and reset to the beginning. Watch as he sings Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Mr. Tambourine Man, and Rocketman. Tags: williamshatner…
Feb 13th
resisting the urge to say ‘The men who designed there machines made them so simple even a woman could use them’ all day. Yay Mad Men.
Feb 13th
Google Suggest Fail →
via Silicon Alley Insider       
Feb 10th
Google Suggest Fail →
via Silicon Alley Insider       
Feb 10th
Should fire alarm voices be calm and authoritative or slightly panicked and afraid?
Feb 10th
WatchWatch
Tom Jones - If He Should Ever Leave You - A Take Away Show on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Feb 9th
I am much too pleased at seeing the word ‘effected’ used properly.
Feb 9th
Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy: New... →
Book — £6.95
Feb 8th
2666 →
Book — £11.72
Feb 8th
We Never Talk about My Brother →
Book — £9.54
Feb 7th
Two Years.
It’s been two years since Yahoo Pipes emerged from the depths of Yahoo’s Birickhouse/Skunkworks; an elegant piece of engineering - graphical progamming, the Holy Grail of starry-eyed first-years everywhere: WE CAN BRING OUR WIZARDLY CODING ABILITIES TO THE MASSES combined with the zomg web 2.0 zeitgeist. Pipes probably meant shit to you, a lifeboat of innovation floating plaintitively...
Feb 6th
Launch The Alert Vipers, With Your Very Own... →
Don’t you wish your driveway played host to this Viper car, straight out of Battlestar Galactica? Butch pilot with mental issues and a sexy flightsuit not included. Put together by Rick Murphy…
Feb 6th
Space Station in the Moon →
Space Station in the Moon Credit & Copyright: Eric J. Zbinden Explanation: On February 2nd, a first quarter Moon shone in planet Earth’s early evening sky. As…
Feb 6th
Boston Phoenix digs up off-color MP3s from Barack... →
April has the clips with an inline player  
Feb 6th
The Gone-away World by Nick Harkaway →
Windmill Books (no date), Paperback, 592 pages
Feb 4th
World crisis charts fed into Songsmith →
The Mayor of Mt. Holly says: “Johannes Kreidler fed Microsoft Songsmith with charts based on plummeting stocks, war casualties and other doomsday statistics. The results are a lot more…
Feb 4th
Anathem by Neal Stephenson →
Atlantic Books (2008), Hardcover, 800 pages
Feb 3rd
“Terry Pratchett worries about his new duties: ‘Dear Diary, Damsels...”
– Ansible 259, February 2009
Feb 3rd
Alice: Stuart Jeffries: London's day of... →
SNOW. Great article encapsulating the day that was yesterday.
Feb 3rd
A fistful of Rikers. | MetaFilter →
Feb 1st