A pretty cool redesign is imminent(ish). Sit tight!
CALCUTTA, India — When a drought-stricken farmer began digging for water, little did he know he’d tap into one of the most powerful forces in the universe!
I’ve dreamed of this day: here’s the entire archive of Weekly World News, courtesy of Google Books.
via Coudal
Try not to freak out, but a 10-meter-wide asteroid exploded somewhere high over Indonesia earlier this month with about three times the force of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Here’s a newscast with some amateur footage of the resulting dust trail—which, admittedly, doesn’t look half as hellish as I’ve been led to expect that it should.
“Thousands of Americans—hardworking ordinary Americans like you and me—already have H1N1,” Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said during a press conference. “Now Obama wants to take that away from us.”
It’s a cold day in Iceland. The collapse of the krona, the country’s national currency, has led to the unthinkable: McDonald’s is pulling out.
To be fair, there are only three such establishments in the entire country. And they’ve only been there since 1993. But one can’t help but wonder if McDonald’s—paragon of globalization run amok!—has ever given up ground before.
When Theresa Duncan, 40, took her own life on July 10, followed a week later by her boyfriend, Jeremy Blake, 35, their friends were stunned and the press was fascinated: what had destroyed this glamorous couple, stars of New York’s multi-media art world, still madly in love after 12 years?
“Multi-media art world” and the clueless artiness that it seems to imply is just the first indication that the following is about some sad-sack Gen-Xers.
And you’d be right. But there’s a heck of a story in there—I read it during my lunch break yesterday and haven’t been able to get it out of my mind ever since.
It’s old—from the January 2008 issue of Vanity Fair—and has been widely read (Gus Van Sant and Bret Easton Ellis are reportedly working on the screenplay). But hey, just in case.
Q:
How many Americans watch cable news channels like CNN, MSNBC or Fox News?
A:
I’ve made an iPhone1 version of the site:
A couple things. I’m going to be making some changes to the way that full posts are displayed, like ditching the speech bubble icons used to display how many comments a post has—they just tend to get in the way. I also need to take a serious look at the navigation bar on top, which I’ll do as soon as I get the chance.
Aside for noting that I’ll need to rework the comments section of each permalink page, I haven’t really taken a look at how this condensed layout affects other pages. So if anything looks stupid, bear with me. Or, better yet, let me know!
There’s no special url – just visit the site from a mobile device.
- Works on any mobile device, though – it’s designed to be viewed on displays that are 320 pixels wide. Because I’ve only got an iPod Touch to work with, I don’t know how that looks on, say, a Blackberry. For the sake of making sure this looks good on as many devices as possible, I’m going to make the assumption that 320 is pretty standard by now. [↑]
“The United States, like some heavyweight who’s taken one punch too many, is still groggy from the money fever of gutted pension funds, toxic securities and lunatic leverage. My sense is the world, like Merrill Lynch, was about three nanoseconds from complete meltdown.” •
An episode of This American Life from May 2008 centered on how the mortgage crisis happened. Includes heartbreaking anecdotes from people who got screwed by brokers/traders and gratifying anecdotes from traders who screwed themselves.
If you’ve got an hour and want a simple, effective explanation of the mess we’re in, then listen to it online.