Posts from 2009 (Page 6)

234 posts from 2009

Jun 26, 2009
Photography

Photo Friday

The Big Picture, today, has a collection of 35 pictures taken from the International Space Station, including one of the Puget Sound region. The resolution is spectacular. Even though you obviously can’t see my house from there, you can easily ...

Jun 15, 2009
Politics

The Tiananmen Solution

From Dan Savage: The massive demonstrations in Prague in November of 1989 that came to be known as the Velvet Revolution began with protesters—students mostly—being beaten in the streets and ended with the fall of that country's communist regime ...

Jun 06, 2009
iPhone Mac OS X

And on a lighter note...

I should be asleep right now, since I’m leaving on a jetplane (back next Friday) for San Francisco at 9:30 tomorrow morning. Toothbrush? Check. Credit card? Check. WWDC registration confirmation? Check. Virgin America first class seat? Check...

Jun 06, 2009
Photography

Flyover Country, indeed

Gary soon makes you realize the pitfalls of modern, free-market capitalism, unhindered by checks and balances, a boom-town driven purely by the motive of profit. Jonathan Haeber I was forced to visualize the building at its nadir, when you...

Sacrifice

Not my photo, but still very fitting. All of my blessings and best wishes to everyone wearing an American flag around the world, and…well, honestly, what I was going to say seemed trite. Instead, just spend a moment thinking about those who have...