New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time

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All I can say is, wow.

(via To Darrin Hudson)

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This photo makes me laugh so much. It ran on the front page of the NY Times, and shows Specialist Zachary Boyd of Fort Worth, TX fighting in Afghanistan in his pink boxers. He had been sleeping when the compound he was in was attacked, and he ran out to help fight in [...]

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Honda Insight – Let It Shine from Honda on Vimeo.

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This video just made my day.

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I love looking at NY Times photos. They have a certain sophistication, a sense of subtlety that is matched by few other publications. It’s a testament, not only to their photographers but also to their photo editors. That is the kind of photography I would like to see myself doing in the [...]

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Photo by Jim Wilson / New York Times
Across the nation, the ultimate symbol of suburban success has become one more reminder of the economic meltdown, with builders going under, pools going to seed and skaters finding a surplus of deserted pools in which to perfect their acrobatic aerials.
In these boom times for skaters, Mr. Peacock [...]

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A three-year-old boy called Adolf Hitler Campbell has been refused a birthday cake with his name on it by a New Jersey supermarket.
Heath Campbell, 35, and his wife, Deborah, 25, say they are upset at the decision made by their local ShopRite not to write “Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler” across the cake, and that people [...]

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“He’s a devout Christian, but it isn’t like he forces it on anybody,” Fitzgerald said.
McCown believes Warner has changed since St. Louis. “He’s learning to share his faith without having to talk about it as much,” McCown said. “Instead, he leads by example.”
Warner said he leads by carrying his Bible with him to every news [...]

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“I think if we didn’t say ’shortie’ for the next hundred years, I don’t know how that’s going to help things, but I’m just certain that it will.  I just have that feeling in my heart.”
- Mos Def

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Some interesting quotes I’ve stumble upon in my readings:
“How fabulous was Phelps’s feat? At Sunday’s start, the Person’s Republic of Phelps would have ranked fourth in gold medals and been ahead of all but 14 countries in the medal count.”
- New York Times
“As the meet went on, the otherworldliness of Phelps’s performance found expression in [...]

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A group of college students raises $250,000 for Darfur and looks for an appropriate and impactful way to spend it.
Bell and Hanis’s aborted foray into the world of discount drone shopping was done on behalf of the Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net). Founded at Swarthmore in October 2004 by Hanis and another student, Andrew Sniderman, GI-Net [...]

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“I have never been considered a part of the religious right, because I don’t believe politics is the most effective way to change the world,” he says now. “Although public service can be a noble profession, and I believe it is our responsibility to vote, I don’t have much faith in government solutions, given the [...]

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When does dissent become Untruth and lose the rights and respect due to “legitimate dissent”? Who decides—and how—what dissent deserves to be heard and what doesn’t? When do journalists have to “protect” readers from Untruth masking itself as dissent or skepticism?
I found myself thinking about this when I came across an unexpected disjunction in the [...]

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