June 2012
9 posts
Take Newt Gingrich, for instance. Only four years ago he was willing to sit on a...
– Bill McKibben, The Planet Wreckers (via utnereader)
World’s Most Expensive Ice Popsicle - →
got my internet back
I hate being home and having this shitty internet.
April 2012
26 posts
Crockpot: The Floating Wind Turbine Project That...
utnereader:
Tokyo’s terrifying, beautiful tire monster and other playground masterpieces.
Why Google’s CEO wants to pan for gold on an asteroid.
How New Orleans became a filmmaking Mecca in the years after Katrina.
Read more: http://www.utne.com/weekly-digest/utne-reader/crockpot/042412.aspx#ixzz1tBdF6T2Q
Crockpot: The Floating Wind Turbine Project That...
utnereader:
Tokyo’s terrifying, beautiful tire monster and other playground masterpieces.
Why Google’s CEO wants to pan for gold on an asteroid.
How New Orleans became a filmmaking Mecca in the years after Katrina.
Read more: http://www.utne.com/weekly-digest/utne-reader/crockpot/042412.aspx#ixzz1tBdF6T2Q
Crockpot: The Floating Wind Turbine Project That...
utnereader:
Tokyo’s terrifying, beautiful tire monster and other playground masterpieces.
Why Google’s CEO wants to pan for gold on an asteroid.
How New Orleans became a filmmaking Mecca in the years after Katrina.
Read more: http://www.utne.com/weekly-digest/utne-reader/crockpot/042412.aspx#ixzz1tBdF6T2Q
Single-Payer Health Care For the Win? →
Hipster Logic Problems by Larry Fleury
utnereader:
Train A leaves from a platform that you probably never heard of traveling at 60 mph. Train B leaves one hour later from the same platform going 85 mph. How long will it take train B to catch up with train A, and which is going to an M83 concert?
More Hipster Logic Problems at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Image: Richard Faulder via Creative Commons
Strong Opinions @marksbirch: Funding Announcements... →
marksbirch:
Specious, chest beating, useless, humblebrag pieces of low quality, low brow tech reporting. That is the gist of many opinions on the topic of funding announcements. Just yesterday, Chris Dixon posed what seemed like a rhetorical question on Twitter:
I must admit, it is hard on face…
I like toads.
Strong Opinions @marksbirch: ROI of Attending... →
So towards the end of last year, I took a look at all the events I attended during the year (where I wasn’t a speaker) and assessed the ROI. Unsurprisingly, other than having a bit of fun and catching up with people I already knew, there wasn’t much value to them.
“Why I stopped attending…