April 2010
413 posts
Watch19thcentury:
On 31 March 1889, the Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris in honour of the centenary of the French Revolution.
March 2010
452 posts
The Great West Coast Newspaper War - The Stranger →
barticz:
“San Francisco in 2010 is a strange place for an old-school newspaper war. This is the city where the dot-com industry started, where Yelp is the way to make dinner plans, where Digg is headquartered, where Apple just unveiled its new tablet computer, where Google employees awaken in fancy condos and then roll to the Googleplex in Mountain View inside company-provided, wireless-equipped...
Glenn Beck in Orlando: Glenn Beck calls on his... →
Women should exercise an hour a day to maintain... →
Line2 App allows calls from iPhone, iPod Touch and... →
Americans suspected of terror-related activities →
(3/17/2010) (03-17) 00:26 PDT , (AP) — Americans who have been charged or suspected of terror-related activities over the past year include: _Young Somali men from Minneapolis who left the U.S. in…
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Sarkozy and Obama - The Odd Couple
A lot of talk online today about French President Nicolas Sarkozy cozying up to U.S. President Barack Obama.
Found it interesting, considering that Sarkozy is considered to be pretty much a right-winger, though it could be said that the right wing in France is not exactly the same as the right wing in the U.S.
So I dug into the archives and found this article about Sarkozy and his election as...
Old Photos of Antarctica →
(via bottomoftheearth)
Tilikum, SeaWorld trainers redo routines after... →
Governor, lawmakers agree to early budget package →
Chad Henne: 'Tim Tebow is not an NFL QB' →
Health care reform reveals Dems' true colors →
(3/17/2010) The final outcome of the health care reform debate is uncertain - who can predict where a writhing eel will land? - but we have learned a few things already. First, we know that…
“Try reading a book on disc. At best, it’s an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow...”
– Clifford Stoll: Why Web Won’t Be Nirvana - Newsweek.com
From 1995
(via gregburek)
99 Famous Pictures
From heart-wrenching to inspiring, and every emotion in between.
anamericanintaiwan:
See and download the full gallery on posterous
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Chechnya and Russia
Growing up in the 1980s, it was hard to imagine there would ever not be a Soviet Union.
Then there was Ronald Reagan and “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall” and then the Berlin Wall actually being torn down in 1990. Then the 1992 Olympics where there was no Soviet Union, just a loose confederation that hadn’t even had enough time to get a new flag or decide if they were...
Watchtoddsweet:
Why do presidents use so many pens to sign legislation? White House Staff Secretary Lisa Brown explains.
Florida basketball: Gators see bright basketball... →
Sinead O'Connor: 'There should be a full criminal... →
Cash-for-clunker appliances: Reservations required... →
Study sheds new light on Mammoth Mountain's age →
(3/8/2010) Beneath the 12 feet of snow that cover the ski slopes of Mammoth Mountain this winter, the tumbled rocks and restless ground tell a story of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes that shaped…