January 2011
11 posts
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her dead husband Carl Sagan (via fuckyeahexistentialism, savagemike)
Mega City One? →
The Chinese are planning to create the world’s first mega-megapolis by merging nine adjacent cities:
The “Turn The Pearl River Delta Into One” scheme will create a 16,000 sq mile urban area that is 26 times larger geographically than Greater London, or twice the size of Wales.
The new mega-city will cover a large part of China’s manufacturing heartland, stretching from...
Nikal re, mian?
I am moving cities. In a week’s time, I’ll be saying sayonara to Hyderabad after having lived here for more than 20 years. Sure, I went away for a couple of years in the early nought’s, but I never felt that I’d left the city. I always knew I’d come back. But it feels different this time. It feels that when I drive out over the Lakdi-Ka Pul, the bridge’ll...
Scottish Whiskey, South American Style →
From Panama—who you might remember from such hit plagues as Malaria, Yellow Fever, and Mariano Rivera—comes the latest attempt to cash in on the recent “Accidentally Drink Yourself Into a Coma” fad.
Introducing, Scotch whisky. In a can.
That’s right, mate. It’s twelve ounces of pure…
(via americandrink)
Hacking time →
bobulate:
Matt Danzico has taken on a year-long project to explore how new experiences affect his perception of time with The Time Hack:
An experiment aimed at exploring whether our perception of time is influenced by our actions. [I]t aims to test whether time itself is flexible and whether our brains measure time differently than the clocks around us. …. Experts argue that when one engages in...
Action Movie Villains From The 80s To Today →
..because this is what one needs on a dreary Tuesday morning. Great bit of work from Alex Leo:
the overall winner of the villain tally is American military/government/law enforcement. Our own protectors even beat out the Russians in the 80s! We are a country that distrusts government innately and that has translated to film. It’s also just fun when the bad guy is the NSA director or a dirty cop...
2010
Apparently, it’s the norm to do these ‘wrap up last year in a post’ things. But a major part of me rebels against this. Not only do I find it contrived, but the introspection and reflection it brings out in people is something I do almost on a weekly (and sometimes on a daily) basis. The long distance view it imposes is not something I like. My goals are modest and...
The economics of The Dave Mathews Band →
Maybe in 20 years someone will write a book called “Management secrets of the Dave Mathews Band”! Great article in Slate on how DMB operates and makes money:
So the precipitous decline in record sales in the past decade has hardly hurt DMB’s profitability: The band makes the bulk of its money touring anyway. And it makes a lot of money doing it. According to Billboard Boxscore,...