Beware the Backlash?
Is industrial design "intelligence made visible" or "attention-seeking frivolity"?
Beware the Brown Peril
I try not to link to stuff I see on Boing-Boing, since that site gets about a zillion times the traffic I do, but Peter Bagge's four-page comics rumination on immigration on is just too good to ignore.
Big Bang Timeline
Cool interactive timeline that allows you to slide the point of reference along a timeline starting with the Big Bang and ending with . . . .
Big Man On Campus
Ricky Rosas is teaching the USC Trojans how to be something better than football heroes—he's teaching them to be adults.
Big Trouble
Society has been turned upside down and a generation raised by young, inexperienced mothers is now running amok. Here's the kicker: We're talking about pachyderms
Biggest Music Industry Screw-Ups Ever?
Blender has just posted its nominations for greatest">http://www.blender.com/articles/default.aspx?key=18696">greatest record industry screw-ups. I have a few quibbles, but as a whole, Blender tells a tale of monumental stupidity,from Decca passing on the Beatles because Dick Rowe was irritated that too many frantic teens were attempting to get into the Cavern Club to shutting down Napster without having a legitimate channel to replace it.
Bike Lanes: Untouched By Human Brains
BBC News demonstrates why it is frequently safer to ride your bike in the street than in a bike lane.
Bike Lock Shoot-Out
Of course, I don't care how good the lock is, I ain't parking My Trek 5900 on the street.
Bill On Will
Bryson writing about Shakespeare, that is. The Times offers an excerpt from Shakespeare.
Bill Watterson on Comic Strips
The creator of Calvin & Hobbes gave a legendary (some say notorious) speech called "The State of Cartooning" in 1989. I'd heard of it, but never read it until Planet Cartoon posted it yesterday.