This is a bit sad, considering how much money I’ve spent at Borders and how much I loved to browse there back when I lived in the burbs (and there was one near me). Best outcome would be that mom ‘n pop book stores fill in the gap, but we can only hope, I suppose.
Ultimate travel bag set.
(A Patagonia MLC Burrito and an Incase Ari camera bag, being used as not-a-camera-bag).
I’ve been looking up some places to climb for when I’m home in Georgia over the holidays (yes, a bit early). For as much as I’ve heard about Rocktown, I can barely find any information about it online. I spend a bit of time browsing sites and finally came across this great DrTopo map of routes, which isn’t even online any more.
I went ahead and uploaded it to Scribd for posterity’s sake. I’ll probably end up takeing a day (maybe two including an overnight?) to go up there in late December. At least it won’t be as cold as Washington’s cragging areas that time of year!
No words are necessary…
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we’ve got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition, and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.
— (via) Stephen Colbert
I think we were all thinking, ‘Man, I wish something new would happen. I wish someone would take a chance.’ And whenever I say that, I always go, ‘Why don’t we? Why don’t we be the ones to do something, to take a chance or whatever?’
— Wayne Coyne (of The Flaming Lips)
Lupe Fiasco is the man. He deals with O’Reilly (and O’Reilly’s assertion that colonialism is “right” and “good”) quite well. Always nice to see intelligent and concerned folks willing to go on that show.
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Magnum Photos has a very cool take on the “this day in history” type of page. The wrinkle is that they do it with photographs, and the photographs are frequently very stunning.
The Bitcoin system is robustly designed to continue past the collapse of the US dollar and the world economy, as the Internet, fast computers and reliable electricity are all expected to be readily available when barbarian hordes are wandering the burnt-out post-apocalyptic remnants of civilisation.
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(via) David Gerard
I normally hate Slashdot comments, but oh god this one put the Bitcoin idiocy in perspective.
On a related note, I wrote a userscript (for Greasemonkey or Chrome) to hide all Bitcoin stories from Hacker News. Get it here.
