I picked up this story from Boingboing, Dumb Aussie junkies mauled by stolen koala, so they tried a croc.
Aussie thieves try to steal a koala to sell for drug money. They get ’scratched to shit’. So they turn to everyone’s #2 redeemable-for-speed animal, the freshwater crocodile. Convict genes will out! This story is remarkable for [...]
A friend sent me a link to Shockabsorber. When I realized that the site was for a sports bra company I thought he was telling me about his sweaty man boobs problem. Shockabsorber has a great flash animation of topless women running to simulate the movement of their breasts, reminiscent of Baywatch. [...]
From Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed by Jared Diamond:
I have often asked myself, “what did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while he was doing it?” Like modern loggers, did he shout “Jobs, not trees!”? Or: “Technology will solve our problems, never fear, we’ll find [...]
The United States is a large and vast country One is reminded at how vast and empty the United States is when one flies cross country. Compare to China, Japan, India, and even the United Kingdom the United States has low population density. It is also interesting to note that for the [...]
I was looking around at Amazon.com to pick up a new book to read during my commute. Here are the books that I was looking into, maybe you can suggest something.
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer. I has been three years since American forces bagged Baghdad, Americans are [...]
There are a lot of great pictures of La Gran Marcha 2006 over at flickr for those that couldn’t make it. Some report that this was the largest march in Los Angeles’ history. The following are slogans used to protests HR 4437 and make a good case against such ill devised laws:
No human [...]
We are all immigrants but it seems that newly arrived immigrants are not granted any rights. HR 4437, passed by the House of Representatives, has spurred great many protests throughout the country. From LA to NY and everywhere in between hundreds of thousands have marched against this proposed legislation and many more protests [...]
Yesterday Jon Stewart interviewed Dan Bakkedahl, Senior Real Estate Correspondent, about the lack of progress in the the construction of the Freedom Tower. It has been almost five years that the Twin Towers fell to terrorist attacks and as of yet the site of these attacks is nothing but an open lot. Dan [...]
I recently read an article on The Wall Street Journal about how some people that live and work around the Mumbai International Airport are afraid to lose their jobs if the airport is bought by private investors. When I read that I thought to myself that these Indian workers could learn a thing or [...]
Is it just me or does the blogsphere remind you of high school? It seemed to me that around Christmas of 2005 there was a contest of Miss Blog where contenders like Dawn Yang and Daphne Teo battled it out on Technorati for the most popular search. It is all so reminiscent of [...]