Via Unfogged and ThinkProgress, Newsweek’s current cover as it varies by geographical region:
I commend them for sparing the world from Annie Leibowitz. The funny thing is that the graphic is right there on Newsweek’s own site. I went back and looked for others. Here are the covers from the week before last.
I’ve been on the road for the last week or so, gradually making my way by tramp steamer to Australia. By coincidence, I was on ABC radio’s Background Briefing programme on Sunday, talking about gift and market exchange in the world of human organ and tissue procurement. There’s a podcast of the show available if […]
It’s depressing to see a professor of demography pull this sort of stunt in the Washington Post:
Between March 21, 2003, when the first military death was recorded in Iraq, and March 31, 2006, there were 2,321 deaths among American troops in Iraq. Seventy-nine percent were a result of action by hostile forces. Troops spent a […]
A couple of chancers in Dublin calling themselves Steorn claim to have developed “a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy”—in other words, they say they have a perpetual motion machine. As they helpfully point out, this “appears to violate the ‘Principle of the Conservation of Energy’, considered by many to be the most […]
Is this some kind of record?
France began this tournament saddled with worries about the ageing legs at the heart of their team, but they have changed their tune.
We’re just missing a fascist octopus singing its swan-song.
Just before lunch, I had the following conversation on the phone:
[Phone rings]
KH: Kieran Healy.
Woman: Oh, so you are a man.
KH: Uh, yes, I am.
Woman: This is [someone] at the editorial desk of the New York Times. We referred to you as a woman yesterday in a post on our Opinionator blog. We’ll change it now.
KH: […]
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