Archive for December, 2010
Here is Alcohol You Can Admire
Someone get this to Stephen Green, stat! If you have often wondered what exactly lies within the various concoctions that make our favourite alcoholic drinks, then here is your answer. These incredible pictures show popular cocktails magnified up to 1,000 times under a high-tech laboratory microscope. Produced by U.S. firm Bevshots, they reveal the incredible [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Unproductive Monday Edition
And so we begin the least-productive two weeks of the year. I, actually, will work most of the week, but I don’t know that I’ll get much actual work done. You know how that works. The mooks show up but the bosses have leave to burn and meetings to attend. Well, I, the faithful mook, [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Lame Duck Sunday Edition
If you haven’t been paying attention to the Senate lately, you’ve missed something truly extraordinary. Harry Reid has attempted to jam through four major pieces of legislation before he finds himself with far less power in January, and he’s working on the fifth. I honestly don’t know that we’ve ever seen a lame duck session [...]
Requiem for a DREAM Act
The DREAM Act, which would have provided de facto amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants died in the Senate today, which is good for all of us. We simply can not ignore our own laws, especially immigration laws, and hope to keep our nation intact. I feel for those people who were brought here illegally [...]
Will the Internet Balkanize? Not Anytime Soon, I Don’t Think.
If you’re looking for something to ponder this weekend, let me recommend this piece in the Economist about the Internet in the modern age to you (via Melissa Clouthier’s Twitter feed). The article looks at the challenges of keeping the internet open in the face of obvious threats to national security such as WikiLeaks, reassertion [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – A Very Bloggy Saturday Edition
I have a bigger than normal backlog of good stuff in the browser tabs, but I’m only going to give you some of what I’ve saved here. I actually have a number of blog posts percolating in the ol’ noggin and, since I didn’t exactly light the world on fire with my writing this week, [...]
The Delivery Presents – The Economy’s Cold but Hockey is Hot
It’s always exciting when I bring on guests with whom I haven’t interacted, either in person or online, very much. There’s always the chance that they won’t be nearly as interesting in conversation as they are in their customary medium. I’m glad that wasn’t true for the two guests you’ll hear on Episode 69. Both [...]
Clearing the Browser Tabs – Snowfall Friday Edition
Well, we had our first snowfall of the year and, even though I failed to stock up on milk, bread, and toilet paper beforehand, I survived. You think I am joking. I am not. You simply have to experience a light snowfall in the Washington, DC area to experience the nigh-panic that sets in when [...]
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