January 2011
11 posts
The Oil we Eat →
Good article from Harper’s, even way back from 2004
There is another energy matter to consider here, though. The grinding, milling, wetting, drying, and baking of a breakfast cereal requires about four calories of energy for every calorie of food energy it produces. A two-pound bag of breakfast cereal burns the energy of a half-gallon of gasoline in its making. All together the...
“The culture of the United States has always been one of massive internal...”
– Bram Dijkstra from Naked: The Nude in America (via kateoplis)
Alcohol Is Microscopically Beautiful
tulletulle:
We all knew alcohol could make people look beautiful, but it seems we were overlooking the real beauty all along.
1. Bloody Mary
2. Cosmopolitan
3. Dry Martini
4. Pina Colada
5. Sake
6. Tequila
7. Vodka Tonic
8. Whiskey
9. White Russian
+ INFO: Bevshots
Hi. My Name is James Gross: Why I will buy Demand... →
gross:
With that said, I also think Demand Media is one of the most interesting publishers on the web with a strong prospect for growth. This will offend many of my friends who are creators and lovers of “quality” content that believe Demand is their arch nemesis. I don’t agree and see plenty of room and value for this “quality” content to thrive as well. Every medium has their...
Continuations: Rooting for Larry and the Internet →
continuations:
The vision I would love to see Google embrace is: Google as the champion of an open, standards-based web as the engine of human advancement. Here are some important implications that would flow from that vision:
Providing a leading and complete implementation of HTML5 for Android to give us a mobile web that is in fact the web and not some controlled and broken subset thereof...
The much acclaimed PageRank algorithm, which ranks search results based on the highest number of inbound links, has failed since it’s easy for marketers to overwhelm the number of organic links with a bunch of astroturfed links. Case in point: The Google.com page that describes PageRank is #4 in the Google search results for the term PageRank, below two vendors that are selling search engine...
“I could be completely wrong here, but I think there is a much harder-core...”
– Henry Rollins • Offering his little piece of insight on the Jared Lee Loughner thang to Vanity Fair readers. Rollins’ argument? He just thinks the pundits on the right are too simple-minded to truly inspire this kind of rage. Sample: “I saw Glenn Beck in action last summer at his Restore Honor...