via npr.org
Very cool!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
World's strongest animal effectively benches 1,000 times its body weight
Even if a grown man could pull 95,000 kilograms, he still would get shown up by the newly crowned world's strongest insect—proportionally speaking.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
South by SouthWest (SXSW) Vicarious.ly Visualization
via youtube.com
Very cool data visualization from the lovely folks at @simplegeoinc.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Hundreds flee volcanic eruption in Iceland
via youtube.com
This Icelandic volcano had been dormant since 1821 and without much warning it just erupted! Fortunately, it's in a lightly populated area although I'm not sure the few people that live near the eruption site feel that way. Of course the evacuations have started due to the risk of floods and mudslides off the glaciar.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Meet Jake Adelstein, a Jewish reporter who thinks like a Japanese gangster
Jake Adelstein is the author of Tokyo Vice, a new book that chronicles the author's crazy adventures as a crime reporter for Japan's largest newspaper. During his 12 years at Yomiuri Shimbun, Adelstein made deadly enemies — and some lifelong friends — in the yakuza, the organized crime underworld that quietly controls a large part of Japan's political economy. The book (which I reviewed in January) chronicles his journey from naive young foreigner to one of the ballsiest reporters on the yakuza beat. Along the way, he discovered that one of the mob bosses, a guy named Goto Tadamasa, had made a deal with the FBI to go to the US and get a liver transplant at UCLA — an embarrassing scandal that Goto didn't want anyone to know about. When Goto found out that Adelstein was investigating, he figured he should just kill him. "It was really terrifying," he says. "I couldn't even walk outside without my lovable ex-yakuza bodyguard next to me."
via boingboing.net
Monday, March 8, 2010
HTC Legend Review: Frankly, It Feels Expensive
With HTC's upcoming crop of Androids, you'll be able to separate people into two distinct groups: those who spring for the brainier, better-specced Desire, and those who get bowled over by the beautiful, yet lesser-specced Legend.
via gizmodo.com
The rumor is that this guy is coming to Sprint. My ATT contract is up and I'm looking around and this has just been added to the list of possibles.
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