He sounds like he’s had a few drinks, if you ask me. Or possibly he’s just trying not to laugh.
Links
Point-of-view tourism
Slate: How the U.S. media would cover Thanksgiving if it were in another country.
Funny. True.
Bank robbery for fun, profit and government.
Geo for Bootstrap
Utter genius: Geo for Bootstrap, a Twitter Bootstrap theme that returns an achingly dull modern web app to the glory days of GeoCities.
(Via Waxy.org Links)
On Falling Over…
In 2008 I moved to the US and within six months I’d paralysed my left arm doing something stupid in the office. For a while I didn’t know if it was ever going to recover. It was one of the most disturbing experiences of my life
Yikes. And wow. Read this.
Chickens
Keep chickens. You know it makes sense. Though my familial preferences was, I believe, for bantams.
Subservient Chicken
Doubtless this is all over the place, but it’s still worth linking to: a large chicken that… oh, just take a look. Funny when it’s dancing – not so good at Soviet-era propaganda poster poses.
Mini adventure
Told you they were quick.
GPRS data
Joi Ito is also doing GPRS data to his PowerBook. Hopefully, my bill won’t quite match his: $3500 for one month?! Yow!
Global Climate Change
Metafilter link, etc etc etc, but still: crumbs. Pentagon report claims climate change a greater security threat than terrorism? Er… that’s quite big, isn’t it?
Observer report here.