The Big Short now on Kindle
I’ve been wanting to read this book for two months on my Kindle. It’s finally out.
MSNBC’s new photoblog
Just launched. I love it.
Deepwater Horizon
Some statistics from last night’s 60 Minutes feature – The Blowout in which a survivor told “how he got away from the flaming platform and all the things that went wrong leading up to the blowout…
The tragic story of Yeardley Love
This is such a heart-breaking story. Lacrosse didn’t have a great name before, but this, combined with the “Duke Scandal of 2006″, certainly doesn’t help the sport’s image.
The Complete National Geographic on 160-GB Hard Drive
Want! The Complete National Geographic on a hard drive:
Explore 120 years of amazing discoveries, fascinating maps, and the world’s best photography with The Complete National Geographic. This…
Just in case I get hit by a bus
Slate Magazine:
At a White House press conference last [July], President Obama conceded that we may never achieve 100 percent health-insurance coverage without a single-payer system, “because…
Buy online, and save
And who doesn’t love saving “N/A”?
Space-saving in 2010
Santa brought me a Bookarc for Christmas this year. The Bookarc is a stand for your Macbook Pro, and I love it. Not only do I have 24 square inches of desk space back, but my notebook actually…
The Known Universe
Both dizzying and fascinating, this Known Universe video zooms out from Tibet and goes as far through space as we’ve mapped. Full-screen this!
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