Month: August 2010

If you ever wanted a big-picture perspective on how fed up you are with anything, try applying the formula explained in a New York Times blog entry about Iraqi citizens and their opinion of politics in their country: Anecdotally, judging from the visceral reaction of Iraqis to politicians when the subject is broached on the … Read more

See that picture? You see that thing of evil? That’s what I was hit with at twitter.com/flashlightflies after I followed Asianjin’s instructions on how to tear down the 140-character cell in which Twitter imprisons/frees us all. Well, anytime something is technically wrong, there is a way to make it technically right. A quick search for … Read more

It seemed to be a novel way for a holy figure in Hungary to connect young people with God: hop on a skateboard in the signature black robes of his calling and start spreading the word. But Reverend Zoltan Lendvai, who was mentioned in this article, here, there and, hell, everywhere on Monday, isn’t the … Read more

Because a Web site doesn’t exist for me unless it has RSS, I made a bundle of all the feeds of 11 awesome news photoblogs recommended by 10,000 Words. My bundle is here. Sadly, six of these 11 feeds require you to click out of your reader to view the photo on the host blog’s … Read more

The tag showed a brave young adventurer navigating the wilds by sitting inside a tent and staring at the screen of his laptop. Sorry, no photo. Just a word-picture today. Let’s interpret the image, and be a bit dramatic about it: This tent you’re supposed to use to escape the soul-dessicating clamps of civilization and … Read more

I have no idea why I am writing about economics this fine, sticky day in New York, except for the fact that “Economics for Dummies” is a book I’ve had sitting around for years and am now just inching through. The two little glow worms of exciting information that I came across are: 1 The … Read more

My quest to add even more luster to my shiny, very part-time blog ended in a small disaster after I updated to the latest version of WordPress. This is yet another sad tale in the ongoing narrative of new vs. old in the realm of hardware and software: Before stepping up to the latest and … Read more