Science Blog
One of my new favorite blogs is Pharyngula. I have to be honest, I can’t remember who turned me on to it, but I love this stuff; and it’s even a local blog — a professor, of course. (I’m such a sucker for the academic.)
A Top Undiscovered Reading Web Site
My first discovery from PC Magazine’s Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites: Verbotomy challenges you to create a word for a given definition.
It's All Right Here
Oh, yeah. This one is going to nourish me for quite some time — as well as nourishing my Net Raker posts. Hot Soup in the Eye just posted a link to my former employer’s website — PC Magazine’s Top Web Sites 2007. The best part is the second list, the Top 100 Undiscovered Web … Read more
Microtrends
Mark J. Penn has an interesting Trendsurfing post today at Forbes.com, “The Critical 1%.”
Finally, Maybe People Will Listen
New immigrations policies are hurting us all. Now they’re even jacking up wine prices.
Who Has The "Wide Stance" Beat?
Not that it quite rivals the Wall Street Journal stealing a Pulitzer Prize out from under the local dailies’ nose with Bill McGuire’s United Health back-dating scam, but it’s a little embarrassing to miss a U.S. Senator — Larry Craig, aka “The Militia Senator” and “The Right and Honorable Senator of the Aryan Nation”, not … Read more
A Tip of the Hat
I just wanted to point out what might be one of the best blog headlines ever over at clothesline blog. “Gonzales may have resigned — says he can’t recall” To say anything else would be gilding the lily.
You're invited: Szechuan Dinner With An Expert
When Jim Harkness, the new executive director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, dines at Little Szechuan in Saint Paul, he orders in Mandarin, and sometimes he throws in a Szechuan accent, just to mess with the waiters’ head. My Rake co-blogger and I will be having dinner with Jim this Sunday, September … Read more
The Best Car You Can't Buy
The once again iconic Fiat 500 I usually hate these articles in car magazines. However, there is a little car (accent on small) that is currently taking Italy by storm and threatens to topple the Mini, Peugeot, and everything else in its path once it is exported. With this kind of success and with the … Read more
Old Style, New Standards
If you haven’t already, check the photo shoot we did with members of the New Standards for our September issue. Not only does it provide a rare glimpse of the musicians’ doll-faced (and successful!) wives. But it’s also a hosanna, of sorts–our tribute to the gentlemen of yesteryear who, you know, wore fedoras and went … Read more