And that was on our way back from the 25' bronze statue of a firefighter's horn at the 69th street pier.
I'm linking to what I consider the most moving piece of writing on 9/11: Dave Barry's "On Hallowed Ground." What an amazing rumination on…
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Yes, it's the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and the media coverage is relentless. However, despite all the hoopla, the solemnity of the day can still sneak up on you—it happened to Jeff Wong and me this morning as we completed out daily bike ride and came upon a memorial service for firemen and policemen from our neighborhood who died that day.
On my way to work this morning, I noticed that the cool air felt like the first days of school. Though I often hated those first days of school, I enjoyed the feeling of this morning's cool air.
At work, this morning, I found a video, which seems to be part of a school project. If this is what people are doing in school these days... well, I just don't know, man.
I lived with Richard Bednarczyk for an entire year. He's a talented, intelligent, and interesting dude. During the time we lived together, however, I never saw him dance like this.
Right now,…
I was ruminating on the Dave Barry "On Hallowed Ground" essay, wondering if there was another example of great war or crisis writing I could link to, when I thought about A. J. Liebling's WWII work for The New Yorker.
Liebling was an unlikely choice for war correspondent, and he had to battle Harold Ross to get the assignment, but his writing was the exact opposite of the Hemingway school of macho front line reporting. For one thing, you were never in doubt that Liebling did not want to be there—which is something he had in common with the soldiers and civilians he wrote about. Liebling…
For as long as I live, like it or not, I'll remember 10:28 am 9/11/06 like it was yesterday. I remember the roar and the sight of the giant radio antenna on the last of two towers standing disappearing into the massive clouds of gray smoke. I remember the emergency room personnel at St. Vincent's out in the street waiting for survivors that never came and the clouds of gritty smoke and 8 x 11 sheets of paper blowing up the streets of Brooklyn. And then I remember the jumpers, those who'd rather jump than burn.
I also remember Bin Laden saying at the time that his strategy was to bleed…
Perhaps not, but PhysOrg.com reports that two Italian physicists have written a paper suggesting that the concepts of dark energy and dark matter might be the result of "improper" gravitational theory.
Fur is going to fly!
Well, actually, it suggests that, by wearing a helmet when I cycle, I give motorists the feeling I'm invulnerable.
Plep points us toward this gallery of Penn prints at the National Gallery. Amazing how much detail you get in this analog format—go ahead, enlarge 'em and see.
These days have been long. Longer than usual, in fact. That's right:
Longer than usual.
Longer than usual.
Impossible, you say? A day is a day, you say? Not so, I say. These days have been long, and they're getting even longer. Let me tell you what I mean. I just now looked at my clock. It reads 7:18. At this time yesterday, it was a little before midnight. I swear.
How does that happen?
We've been stressed. The lump in our throat says so. The knot in our stomach and the crink in our neck confirm it. With producing the Buyer's Guide, shipping the November issue, preparing…
Fred von Lohmann, senior intellectual property attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and our hero, sends along this link to the Center for Democracy and Technology's (CDT) thoughtful guidelines to how electronics product reviewers should evaluate digital rights management (DRM) issues.
It's obvious why I'm interested in it, but why am I linking to it? So you can review the reviewers, of course. Any review that endorses a product that requires cripple-ware and doesn't tell consumers how that will affect the is a bad review. People can see the shiny carcasses and pretty…