Anybody that moved to New York principally to avoid commuting and/or owning a car, and I know that’s a lot of readers, will appreciate this piece. Reporting over at the BBC is a study which found that commuters suffer from extreme stress, greater even than fighter pilots!
Thanks Duncan.
A friend of mine is part of this show Friday and Saturday at the Lex + 53rd Street YWCA.
Check it out! Plenty of gift ideas there…
Perhaps the bizarrest I’ve seen, this Concubine Master-bateur has it all, but also a few things missing. Need I say more? *NOT* work-safe.
Cute and sweet, yet strangely strange, Yumiko Kayukawa’s gallery will enchant you…
There’s a fascinating story over at PC World on how the government is waging it’s war on counterfitting. They’ve been quietly working with the laser printer manufacturers to embed serial numbers into printed documents.
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Bearish chief economist of Morgan Stanley, Stephen Roach believes America is on the road to a serious crash. The next great depression?
He argues that the trade deficit will keep the dollar falling. To keep things rolling, the fed will raise interest rates to keep foreign interest in buying t-bills. The affect of that is american consumers who are already hugely in debt will get squeezed harder.
This is exactly why the internet is so f**king cool. Check out this searchable database of 50,000 - YEP THAT’s FIFTY THOUSAND comic book cover art.
Howie brings his infectious brand of movie meets conspiracy with his new blog. Check it out, good stuff!
This fascinating gallery gives a rare look at the underground water tunnels that protect Tokyo from overflowing rivers during Typhoon season. Talk about infrastructure, this is truely incredible. Next time I’m in Tokyo, I’m going to visit this shit!
You may have a New York drivers license, but do you have a license to ride a bicycle. Tailing bicyclists with helicopters wasn’t enough, now a license may be necessary.
This is a fascinating article on how pirates hack into satellite telephone conversations. Also, this Dr.Disk site seems to have a lot of other goodies…
We have bionic knees and hips it was only a matter of time before lower back repair came on the scene.
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A fascinating interview with master interrogator Michael Koubi on the psychology of interrogation. He definitely sidesteps the is-there-ever-force-used question carefully, of course, but still a good read.
We know that language is like a living system. Not defined by what is in a dictionary, language is a growing and constantly evolving body of commonly agreed upon knowledge, and usage.
Check out this crazy Timex design competition gallery, in particular the Epidigital piece. Yes, that’s epi, as in epidermal, epidemeology, and beneath the skin art. Looks like swanky scarrification to me.
An all-seeing eye has come to Spring Texas in a big way. Students carry RFID tags which monitor their comings and goings. The system is undergoing a 28000 student test to see how it works in the real-world. Remember RFID is the same technology Schneier talked about that is being added to passports.
As some of you regulars probably already noticed, we’re under construction. Just upgraded the site software so we can take advantage of all these new fancy themes. Haven’t decided which one yet, though I’m leaning towards this one. Comments welcome. Login and under your account, you can select and try out different themes.
Well, we all have a cellphone, and we’ve all used Google. But have you used them together? Probably not, even with data services, and WAP, I know I never do.
That all changed five minutes ago when I was reading Gizmodo.
In just a couple weeks, prankster R.U. Sirius, editor of Mondo 2000 in the 90’s, will be hosting a book party at Lotus on 14th Street. He’ll be accompanied by a few other folks you might have heard of.
Aurora Borealis, also known as Northern Lights, as taken a turn for the South this time around. Apparently this was an extreme geomagnetic storm. Maybe the poles are switching and it’s not related to global warming.
Los Alamos nuclear weapons facility was home to a squating hermit until recently. Micro-Mike is a fan of kooky philosphies, and scientific theories. Apparently he was living in a solar powered house, complete with a marajuana garden. The house was hidden in a cave, and Micro-Mike lived there for years until authorities smelled something funny, and investigated.
A University of Chicago research project has show that male testicals have evolved based on the infidelity of women. Human testicals are larger than gorillas, but smaller than chimpanzees. So human females are more promiscuous than gorillas says the study.
[Thanks Jing]
It seems the recent win of the republicans has boosted hits to Canadian immigration site. Despondent or disgusted, democrats and other disenfranchised are at least considering the idea of emigration.
The election’s over, and depending on your perspective, it’s a wreckage, or a great day in American history. Urban Outlaw has a great piece America the Divided. Worth a look.
This is a funny site with pictures of cellphone towers disguised as trees.
