Day 8 – 1.8.11 Orchestrating Madness. Not Much To Do. Week 2 Rules: Repeat rules from Week 1. Week 1 Rules: Manipulate front page image. Document with iphone. Tweet
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There is a doctor in war-torn Somalia who is really helping out families and refugees of war. Being a victim herself she told gunmen that they would have to go ahead and shoot her there because she wasnt leaving her people or hospital, very couragous. Its pretty easy to hope but to help is something greater.
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The NYC record for number of days cars were snowed in their parking spots? 62 days in the winter of 1978. ”The Winter Cars Stayed Put. For 62 Days” by Andy Newman on page A15 (couldn’t find the link online!) Tweet
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In Cairo, Chrisitans collide with police. Here, an admiral looks he doesnt like the sound of reducing the army and marines by 47,000 by 2015 to reduce federal spending. ‘We better have some awesome warbots if we do that’, is probably what he was thinking. And the peaceful bird above is from an ad on the back page talking about careers for you.
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How is it the Census data knows that 1.1 million knives, 11, 908 boxcutters and 1,416 knives were confisgated by airport screeners in 2007? Meanwhile there are more pigs than people in 5 states and 400 fewer bookstores than 10 years ago. Am comforted by the orderly-ness of it all. More in NYTimes today US [...]
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I could not personally connect to any particular news story in the NYTimes yesterday and in today’s paper I was drawn to two articles: 1. Thinking Less About Money from the Bucks blog about not spending too much time regretting the past or worrying about the future and more on the present including a media [...]
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