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The NY Times, with some images of the first public artwork in Manhattan by the Brazilian brothers Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, who call themselves Os Gêmeos. Roberta Smith describes the mural, which went up at the northwest corner of Houston Street and the Bowery on July 17, as bringing graffiti art to its Rococo phase.
Tiny Railroads
From The Daily Beast:
Usually, the beer drinking precedes the disorderly conduct charges, but the unfolding Skip Gates brouhaha is no ordinary chain of events. And so Thursday evening comes the strangest beat yet: President Obama is hosting a racial summit/ happy hour that brings to one table these three men—a policeman, a professor, and a president—and their preferred brands of beer.
Bill Maher, in an article entitled New Rule: Not Everything in America Has to Make a Profit.
The NY Times posits that as time continues and the English can define themselves less and less as being British, perhaps the traditional English pub offers itself as a defining cultural institution to cling to.
Barack Obama, adapting Voltaire to explain his position on the recent climate change bill. I think it probably a good viewpoint to take on most any issue of progress.
Very tired. Little sleep since being woken at 1:40 AM by a nefarious male and female duo trying to gain entrance through the front door. Luckily I remembered to lock the door, but that didn’t make the minutes of watching the door knob twist while the door creaked any less nerve wracking. I think it may be time to move…
A new Twitter client for the iPhone by a company called ‘System of Touch’. Yes. App actually does look much nicer than other apps.
Hopefully this catches on—seems to address the one shortcoming Movable Type had, as compared to Wordpress.
Once again, to the jerk who ripped off my car stereo: fixing the window you broke will cost $220; yes that is twice as much as the stereo cost when it was new. Brilliant. :(
Dear jerk who broke into my car: that CD player cost $100 in 2002; I’m sure it’s worth all of $20 now. Hope it was worth your while…
The NY Times’ Pour Blog has it: happy people live longer. Any analysis of wine deeper than that and it gets too complex to ever really figure out. Reductionist science almost never really works (it just seems to until 50 years later when more is known). Not that this type of science should be discouraged—it is an important means of progressing understanding on very complex interrelated subjects—it should just not be the basis for informing the practical day to day decisions of how to live (that is what common sense is for).
Exactly. And Air too. Browsers work quite well. No need for buggy runtimes that in reality exist only because they offer alternate development environments. Ease of use for users is more important than the same for developers (it’s a utilitarian argument but there are vastly more users than developers for any given product… :) ).
