Garrett M. Vonk

“CNN fired me, and did it without even a thought to the power that I might wield as an average person with a brain, a computer, and an audience. The mainstream media doesn’t believe that new media can embarrass them, hurt them or generally hold them accountable in any way, and they’ve never been more wrong.”

Once you put the cameras up, it’s just. that. easy. I don’t feel so “slippery slope” about being against these things now, for this exact reason.

Nostalgia alert! Yes, it was a ripoff of Sonic the Hedgehog, but I spent months with this game at the age of 13.

I’m always just ready to claim “Officer, I wasn’t warning other drivers about the speed trap; I just saw a guy with a coffee mug on his roof.”

“Why is it wrong to improve performance by injecting testosterone but OK to improve it by injecting cortisone or having Lasik surgery?” Good point. As he says in the article, nobody goes to the ballgame to see their neighbor’s kid make base hits.

My dad clued me in to this uplifting article in The Economist. Some of these stats are unbelievable… “In the world as a whole, a stunning 135m people escaped dire poverty between 1999 and 2004.”

It’s too bad the unions aren’t as influential here. End Amazon’s tyrannical and unfair Super Saver Shipping now!

My new year’s resolution? 2880×900

If I click on this link again, it had better be on a weekend. There’s far too much good stuff here to even think about clicking at work.

Via Cool Tools - “It’s what a physics textbook would be like if a poet wrote it and made no mistakes. The book is massively visual. There is minimal math. It’s a textbook with soul.”

This appears to be nearly impossible, but it’s really just trial and error.