January 2009
30 posts
“The economy is one big poop sandwich. And we’re all going to have to take...”
– Comment by ‘mortis’ on the article “Tens of thousands more layoffs are announced”
Text of President Obama's inaugural speech →
IT'S OVER!!!
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
As humans hunt, their prey gets smaller. →
“Their study of hunting, fishing and collecting of 29 different species shows that under human pressure, creatures on average become 20 percent smaller and their reproductive age advances by 25 percent.”
Refrigerators will use peer-to-peer power... →
“Refrigerators and freezers have a surprising amount of discretion about some activities they perform, with a range of safe temperatures, and certain activities (primarily defrosting) that can happen at any given time. With no internal clock and no knowledge of power-grid events, refrigerators may choose to use the most power at the worst time.”
The solution? Connect refrigerators,...
“But it is an iron truth of politics that prolonged success sows the seeds of...”
– from “The Limits of Reaganism,” by Alex Massie
WatchApple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop
“The great misfortune of newspapers in this era is that they were such a good...”
– Digital guru Clay Shirky’s media forecast for 2009
