From One Human Minute:
“Every night, electrons, forced to lick the screens of our television sets with frenzied speed, show us the world chopped up and crammed into the Latest News” – Stanislaw Lem, One Human Minute
There’s a lot of cultural momentum with the image of TV as a rounded rectangle, some 50 years worth.
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From Reason.com, it’s the Playmobil security checkpoint!
The Amazon customer reviews give an indication of the important lessons your kids will learn with this kit. Personally, I much prefer the lessons learned when playing with the Rally Car, but it’s discontinued.
Kevin Drum addresses some of the same points I did.
Also, didn’t the first few seasons build up more slowly? This one seems foot-to-the-floor from the first 15 minutes. To be kind to anyone who hasn’t watched, I’ll hold off on examples.
I had been wondering if 24 would be less predictable this year. I was also wondering if the recent changes in the political climate would reduce the torture-porn level to, maybe an R rating? 45 minutes into the first episode, and I’m not so hopeful on either point.
From flickr via SimpleComplexity:
For work, I’ve got a data set that might be applicable – there’s ~100 data points, which are grouped into 3 major sets. At the moment, we show the 3 sets on separate bar charts, but this technique might let us show them all on one page. The radial nature of the [...]
http://www.kottke.org/09/01/infinite-jest-tour-of-boston
Other people got Infinite Jest for Christmas, apparently. I really thought it was supposed to be here, next to Comm Ave.
I’ll have plenty to read for a while…