February 2012
13 posts
Minnesota Twins vs. Boston Red Sox - Recap - April... →
Is this the only game where Wakefield pitched in the same game as R.A. Dickey? Was there ever a game where they both started?
“Where David Lee worked in Brookline, Mass., a McDonald’s had become the de facto...”
– How to solve the boomer retirement crisis - Salon.com
“The media environment that Luther had shown himself so adept at managing had...”
– Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist
"Jamarcus mad cuz I change his facebook to say he...
South Korea Indicts Park Jung-geun Over Twitter... →
January 2012
14 posts
1 tag
“For select high-demand games during the 2012 season, most seats in the Upper...”
– Red Sox try new initiative for cheapest seats - Extra Bases - Red Sox blog
nice idea! can anyone explain the downside, if there is one?
“If they committed to building a conflict-free iPhone, it would transform...”
– Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China - NYTimes.com
“One explanation for these findings is that introverts are comfortable working...”
– The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
Most of the passengers and crew survived despite hours of chaos and confusion after the collision. The alarm was raised not by an SOS from the ship but mobile phone calls from passengers on board to Italian police on the mainland.
It was a bottom-up, not top-down, SOS!
“Olympic fencer and movie sword master Bob Anderson appeared in some of...”
– British fencer Bob Anderson, Darth Vader stand-in for Star Wars, dies at 89 - ESPN
December 2011
10 posts
“When compared to the blinding and glamorous light of its international sibling,...”
– The Grantland staff on Homeland, The Killing, Parks and Recreation, and the rest of the year in television - Grantland
“Several rescue ships had been hampered by heavy ice in the Ross Sea off the...”
– Icebreaker Reaches Stricken Russian Fishing Vessel - Salon.com
good guy icebreaker
“We can now judge for ourselves if our donated computers really find a new home,...”
– Do You Know What Happens to Your Cellphone When You’re Done with It? | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
“But there is something missing from this equation, just as it was missing from...”
– Coaching, Not ‘Moneyball,’ Will Improve Teaching – SchoolBook
Black swallower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Theodore Gill speculated that the swallower seizes prey fishes by the tail, and then “walks” its jaws over the prey until it is fully coiled inside the stomach.
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE
epic win! →
Salman A. Khan ’98, founder of the popular Khan Academy online educational organization, will deliver the keynote address at MIT’s 146th Commencement on Friday, Jun. 8.
November 2011
14 posts
1 tag
“I think if anything, we could be headed toward a social entrepreneurial bubble...”
– Andrew Zolli, PopTech’s Executive Director and Curator (via poptech)
rolltrepp in concert, with Devon on guitar!
“People say, ‘Oh my god, how horrible you live behind a frat,’” she said. “I’d...”
– In North Brookline, an unlikely neighbor « Blogxiety
