Kieth

"Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has been taken to hospital in New Zealand after injuring himself while on holiday in Fiji.

Media reports in Australia and New Zealand said Richards had hurt his head when he fell out of a palm tree." [via BBC news]

W

Beastie Boys. Weird. Japan. Weird. Beastie Boys in Japan. Weird².

Logitech

These are excellent. I want my iSight to do that.

POTD

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Chernobyl

Magnum In Motion is running a wonderful, but very disturbing, photo essay on Chernobyl Legacy. Paul Fusco spent two months documenting the effect of Chernobyl on a group of children.

POTD

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Ptfthp

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80s

Holy shit. I'm so glad the 80s are over.

Jane Jacobs

New York Times: Jane Jacobs, Social Critic Who Redefined and Championed Cities, Is Dead at 89

"The Death and Life of Great American Cities" was a terribly important book. Some of her fundamental questions, such as whether cities exist for people or automobiles, quite literally changed the face of New York City.

POTD

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Fungus

McNealy

Computerworld: Sun CEO McNealy steps down; company posts $217M loss

Wow. I am entirely shocked. I really like McNealy.

PowerBook 17"

So Apple released a 17" Intel-based PowerBook. Nice, but did you look at the monitor resolution?

It is 1680x1050 native. That means it can't (natively) display full-res HD video. It is just a little too small. Is this weird?

Yum

Reading this just made me unspeakably hungry.