The student newspaper over at Florida Atlantic University decided to abandon modern practices for one issue, making it all happen the old fashioned way: typewriters, paper cutting, paste and 35mm photography. The result reminds us how dependent we are on technology. That is, it looks hard as hell.
Check out the process over at their website.
(via Mental Floss)
The riots in Vancouver spurred from the Stanley Cup loss look like the beginning of I Am Legend.
This week we’ll be discussing the perception of nerds by mainstream culture and while a few of us agree that being a nerd these days is commonplace, it appears that geek street cred might be slipping…
Big deal!
Now That The Palin Emails Are Out
The government is finally getting around to officially releasing the Pentagon Papers, 40 years after The New York Times published revelations about the war in Vietnam. The documents are being issued at noon ET at the National Archives site. Meanwhile, read some interesting earlier revelations at the National Security Archive.
(via theatlantic)
Bicyclists in New York City can’t ride outside the painted lines of bike lanes, or ride inside the painted lines of bike lanes, or bike-while-foreign, or even ride near Fox News employees.
This week’s guest is Andrew McGill, who looks like he could be a politician, but is actually a very smart individual. He’s a reporter for Allentown, PA’s The Morning Call and has a lot to say on facing death in the name of doing cool stuff.
We’re highly recommending following him on Twitter!
Buying that inexpensive beach property suddenly seems like a terrible idea.
The Disappearing Country: With 80% of the country less than one metre above sea level, the residents of the Maldives’ 1,200 tropical islands have long been aware of their vulnerability to rising sea levels. In 2008, it was announced that the government would start diverting a percentage of the nation’s income from tourism into a fund to buy a new homeland. The deep irony that the island nation’s economy relies heavily on tourists arriving in polluting aircraft has not been lost on the islanders. (Sakis Papadopoulos)
