China To Top U.S. in Greenhouse Gases This Year (TreeHugger) It's going to be really interesting to see what this does to the US environmental movement psychologically. All of a sudden instead of biggest core of the problem is going to be a "them" instead of an "us", what happens next, who knows...
‘The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable’ - New York Times - First chapter of Nassim Taleb's new book. I'm in the middle of it now, recommendation at the moment, read this chapter, but buy his first book not this one. He's got one seriously important idea, but his writing leaves something to be desired, and it's not getting better...
17gugg-graphic.jpg (JPEG Image, 1245x694 pixels), the crack epidemic finally reaches the art world...
Click opera - Live dangerously, live long! "Reversible Destiny Lofts"
Researchers find 'large is smart' when it comes to cities
Profiting from the Virginia Shooting, the news outlets are buying massacre ad words, and Google of course is selling them.... Course it's possible the ad buys are algorithm driven, wouldn't be surprised if the Times has a system of automatically IDing keywords which triggers keyword buying on Google. And if they don't have it already, well it's coming soon, isn't it?
Update: BlackBerry service hit by widespread outage in U.S., hmmm wonder how robust they really are with all north american traffic going through 2 hubs...
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Googleopoly Beating on Google is sort of a kicking a dead horse thing to do nowadays, except that the horse was never alive anyway it's a statanic robot and it happens to be charging straight at you at some absurd speed.Google plus Doubleclick?, you better run for your lives my friends, except there is no where to run so maybe try turning off your internet and then stay off for life...
GigaOM » DodgeBall founder quits Google Go Dennis! Happy to see you free at last.
S/FJ: PEOPLE GET HEATED, truth is there is no debate, Lil Wayne has been absolutely running hip hop for the past year, and there are no signs he's slowing down. Wonder if any of this run is ever going to make it to an official record though...
Lord of the Ringtones: How Akon became a star. - By Jody Rosen - Slate Magazine Good article on the first true 21st century pop star. The African car thief currently singing with a Senegalese accent over a healthy chunk of the top 40. If he didn't exist William Gibson probably would have had to invent him. Of course this being the 21st, it's pretty easy to be the biggest pop star in the world and have practically no one know who you are.
Denver - News - 72-Hour Party People - westword.com
PopMatters Books Feature | Long Zoom: Interview with Steven Johnson
Mexican Drug Cartels Leave a Bloody Trail on YouTube - washingtonpost.com
Core77 - 1000 Words: A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design a little blasé but he sums up the sustainable design trend in a neat 1000 words. Why does it have to be so boring though?
BLDGBLOG: The Heliocentric Pantheon: An Interview with Walter Murch
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Predictability, Margins of Error, Quality of Life
