Top 13 worst fictional corporations from sci-fi movies. - Topless Robot blogSlumurbia - the newest trend in California real estate. - NY Times
"Come see: this is what happens when money and market, alone, guide the way we live." Live blogging the Great Recession.
Illinois senator to D.C. residents: It was a snow storm not "a nuclear attack." - The Hill
Black & Decker MSW100 Ready Wrench - Amazon.com/
"...This all-in-one wrench puts 16 of the most popular standard and metric socket sizes at your fingertips--just spin either of the tool's two rotating heads to find the right size. With no socket set to store or organize.." Maybe.
Olympic boondoggles -iSteve blog
"You would think it would be easy to make money on a sporting event where you don't pay the athletes in anything except glory, but after the 1984 LA Olympics, which made a fortune by using old stadia, it hasn't worked out like that."
Google's Buzz a big fat privacy invader - LA Times
Malcolm X's daughters talk about him. - New Yorker
Andy Warhol actually had signed it, dedicated it, and dated it, but it's still a fake. - NY Review of Books
A sci-fi podcast on how the world could end - Escape Pod
EP229: Little Blossom Makes A Deal With The Devil
