July 2009
The new haiku? →
McCann, a poet and professor of Korean literature, embarked on a mission. He is the founder and chief marketing officer of a campaign to popularize the sijo (pronounced SHEE-jo), a traditional poem of 43 to 45 syllables whose third line contains a twist on the theme developed in the first two.
Check your calendar via SMS - Google Calendar Help →
nice!
Todd S. Purdum on Sarah Palin →
"The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online" →
Only a month ago, I was doing fieldwork in Atlanta where I found heavy usage of MySpace among certain groups of youth. They knew of Facebook but had no interest in leaving MySpace to join Facebook.
Herein lies the reality that makes all of this quite messy to deal with. It wasn’t just anyone who left MySpace to go to Facebook. In fact, if we want to get to the crux of what unfolded, we...
Russian corruption reporter dies from head injury →
“I have no doubt that the attack was directly connected to Yaroshenko’s writing and is payback for his journalistic work,” said Sergei Slepzov, a close friend and colleague of Yaroshenko.
h/t liz
Pepsi Opens LEED Certified Plant in China →
PepsiCo has opened the first ‘green’ plant in the industrial center of Chongqing, China. Meeting the standards of the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), it is the first of six planned plants over the next two years.
Big Apple Embraces Big Apps →
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced a series of technology initiatives designed to increase transparency and improve access to information about City services. The City will provide data to allow for the development of software applications that can be used on websites and mobile devices, and through what will become an annual competition known as NYC Big Apps, the City will encourage...
Vivek Kundra at PDF: Help Us Build the Future of... →
Earlier today, Vivek Kundra, the country’s first federal chief information officer, debuted a federal “IT dashboard” on USAspending.gov that gives citizens and officials easy access to the government’s technology spending, with project descriptions, status updates, evaluation reports and contact information for managers. Mr. Kundra, displaying the new site at Personal...
Kobe Bryant Conquers China →
In an attempt to tap into the Chinese government’s growing interest in promoting charity, Mr. Bryant is establishing the Kobe Bryant China Fund. The organization will partner with the Soong Ching Ling Foundation, a charity backed by the Chinese government, to raise money within China earmarked for education and health programs. Mr. Bryant’s existing fund, the Kobe Bryant Family Foundation, will...
June 2009
List of company name etymologies →
(via rickyv)
Yes, We Cannes: Obama Campaign Takes Titanium and... →
RT @cijl This MJ news is hitting me particularly hard because I used to enjoy listening to his music and still do on occasion.
'Stoned wallabies make crop circles' →
“The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles,” Lara Giddings told the hearing.
The Bar Code, Which Changed Retailing, Turns 35 →
But the bar code has become much more than that since it was first used to read the price on a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit gum (67 cents) on the morning of June 26, 1974. Now they are used to board airplanes and track packages. Bar codes help people with diabetes calibrate glucose meters and researchers study the pollination habits of bees. They inspired a hand-held video game, Barcode Battler, in...
Yahoo's Internal 'Fluff-o-Meter' to Limit Celeb... →
“@allonso I didn’t hear dat yet”
– apparently shaq found out that he’d been traded to the Cavs on Twitter
Twitter / THE_REAL_SHAQ: @allonso I didn’t hear dat yet
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Oscars Will Nominate 10 for Best Picture Instead... →
Iran’s Dissident Soccer Players Banned for Life →
According to the pro-government newspaper Iran, four players – Ali Karimi, 31, Mehdi Mahdavikia, 32, Hosein Ka’abi, 24 and Vahid Hashemian, 32 – have been “retired” from the sport after their gesture in last Wednesday’s match against South Korea in Seoul. […] Karimi is one of Iranian football’s best-known stars, having played for the German club Bayern Munich. Ka’abi played for Leicester...
M.T.A. Sells Naming Rights to Brooklyn Subway... →
If a $4 million deal is approved on Wednesday, the nexus of subway stops at Atlantic Avenue, Pacific Street and Flatbush Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn will add an additional name to its already lengthy title: Barclays.
About to visit the Tumblr office in NY, very excited
Paris today, London for the weekend, New York sun-tues, DC weds-fri
Salty microbe may be world's oldest →
Deep in the mine, within a pocket of salt water trapped in a 250 million-year-old salt crystal, two biologists and a geologist discovered the 2-9-3 virgibacillus bacteria. This would be unremarkable save for the fact that this bacteria was 100 million years older than the dinosaurs… and it was still alive.
“This weekend was the Warren Moon Celevrity Bowling Event in Las Vegas. The event...”
– Greg Oden - Yardbarker
pablo these are more or less entirely for you
N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that... →
If The New York Times ever strikes you as an abstruse glut of antediluvian perorations, if the newspaper’s profligacy of neologisms and shibboleths ever set off apoplectic paroxysms in you, if it all seems a bit recondite, here’s a reason to be sanguine: The Times has great data on the words that send readers in search of a dictionary.
by ZMS
Sam: how are u?
Adrienne: i'm aight. just finishing up my last week at a shaolin academy
Adrienne: been studying kungfu
Sam: really?
Sam: that is
Sam: AWESOME
Walls Around Rio's Slums Protect Trees But Don't... →
China built its Great Wall to keep out marauders. The Berlin Wall kept in Germans. The wall around Dona Marta is meant to protect trees. At least, that’s the official line.
Court orders $507.5 million damages in Exxon... →
The amount is a fraction of the $5 billion in punitive damages originally awarded to fishermen, Alaska natives, business owners and other litigants by a jury in 1996, and equals the compensatory damages agreed to in a subsequent settlement, the opinion said.
