"Daily Typography: Coolvetica. Everyday we’ll feature one a great, new font. The font in our feature graphic above is “Coolvetica” and it just so happens to be the font that we’re featuring today to kick things off." - edythe via Bookmarklet
this is what you get when you follow a link in a times article online instead of the expected behavior of taking you to the actual topic website. a complete user experience peeve of mine. - rob zand
My own (brief) 2 cents on this, from the mozilla/firefox point of view, is that it can be a really good way to start -- to start getting interested & engaged users, to start getting a corpus of interesting data, to rapidly figure out what users want. And that that start could get you into the millions of users -- but over time you'll be led towards other & more comprehensive ways to give great stuff to users. - John Lilly
Agree with John. Extensions seem like a good way to get out there and build a name on a simpler platform, and then if your idea has potential to expand you can build from there. - Bartek Gniado
"A new study of nations’ vulnerability to the impacts of global warming found Canada was the most secure, while the Comoros Islands, off the coast of Africa, are least equipped to deal with future dangers." - Shey via Bookmarklet
Is it just me or is the list more or less divided in terms of development? Doesn't it seem to suggest that all the developed countries will get by and the rest of the world will not? How is Japan in that list when the factors are popln density, land area and agriculture? - Parth Awasthi via twhirl
Wait..if temps were to drop dramatically, Canada would be the first to turn into a popsicle, no? - Hao Chen
@Parth i would seem that way and it also has to do with population density: "This is because of the low pressure on natural resources resulting from a low population density and large land area, combined with high agricultural capacity, a healthy economy, few development and health challenges and excellent public institutions." - Shey
@Hao Temps in Toronto are already so messed up, I don't think it could get worse. In Spring and Autumn temps can go up or down 15 degrees celcius in less than a day. - Shey
Shey, I think that the LakeShore corridor will be no more . Al that water melting to the will certainly fill up the lakes to..just not the sea levels !! @Hao, u got a point there.."the day after tomorrow" story :)- - Peter Dawson
I guess I'm moving to Yellowknife, NT, though the south pacific looks like a better place - clarke thomas
Shey: Exactly my point. The list ignores the first few factors, it concentrates heavily on - 'a healthy economy, few development and health challenges and excellent public institutions'. The counterpart to global warming is fiercer winters - not exactly great for agriculture. Low popln - won't people migrate in the event of an apocalypse?It ignores the dependence of the food cycle on plants and of plants on the sun. Most studies reveal the tropics as our best bet despite higher chances of imminent flooding. - Parth Awasthi
Some people are buying land along the projected Arctic shipping route. Others are investing in land assuming a 100-200+ ft water rise. - Mitchell Tsai
thats an interesting concept, new shipping lines across the Arctic, it will cut shipping cost from China to America :)- - Peter Dawson
Parth, those are all good points. Hopefully they factored that in somehow. That being said, the most developed countries are still gonna have an upper hand anyway. - Shey
Most notable about this is that the "western world" - North America, Western Europe and Australia are all LEAST likely to suffer climate change. Aren't the "collective we" most responsible according to the so-called experts? - Aaron Brazell
@Aaron We are, yes. But I'd say China and India are also to blame and they aren't in the green here. - Shey
am i the only one who finds a kitten about to be fork stabbed disturbing? not. cute. imho... - Mona N
Like when we were in North Vietnam, and my wife (who is Vietnamese and loves dogs) says to the taxi driver, "Oh, look at all the dogs on the porches of this town.", and he says, "They are food." - Chris White
btw I'm Japanese, not Chinese.. we'd eat your pets too but goldfish sushi? do.not.want! - Mona N
Chopsticks would clearly be the more appropriate utensil here. - Chris White
Reality check-many pets are food or pets then food in other cultures. Disturbing maybe. People that eat animals for food are kind of fascinated on how pet lovers spend so much money on an an animal. Not saying either side right or wrong just different. - Mark Forman
Mark: The live fuzzy kitten about to be forked stabbed is disturbing.... not the choice of delicacy <-for lack of a better word =\ - Mona N
"Mr. Martinez came in after the rough stuff, the ultimate good cop with the classic skills: an unimposing presence, inexhaustible patience and a willingness to listen to the gripes and musings of a pitiless killer in rambling, imperfect English. He achieved a rapport with Mr. Mohammed that astonished his fellow C.I.A. officers...
A canny opponent, Mr. Mohammed mixed disinformation and braggadocio with details of plots, past and planned. Eventually, he grew loquacious. “They’d have long talks about religion,” comparing notes on Islam and Mr. Martinez’s Catholicism, one C.I.A. officer recalled. And, the officer added, there was one other detail no one could have predicted: “He wrote poems to Deuce’s wife.”" - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet
This just confirms that ordinary, painstaking and lawful interrogation techniques are our best bet at getting the intel we need. The same techniques were used on Saddam Hussein who ended up confessing everything and then some. In contrast, and ripping off Andrew Sullivan: The point of torture is always torture. - Rick Powell
Or simpler: Jack Bauer's 24 isn't what real intelligence work looks like. - sebmos
We're still waiting, after several years, for an authoritative account of precisely how the 9/11 conspiracy was planned and executed. As far as I know, not a single 9/11 conspirator has been convicted in a fair and open trial, based on the presentation of evidence. None of this is adding up. - Sean McBride
Akiva: the same happened to me. Do you use a custom monitor profile? I had to set gfx.color_management.display_profile to the path to my color profile, e.g. /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/My-Dell-2407-Profile (on a Mac). Firefox is supposed to use this profile automatically but didn't do it on my machine. - Ole Begemann
I'm also obsessed with Coffee Heath Bar and Everything But The... - okay why did I start this, I'm craving B&Js right now ;) - Jennifer Van Grove via twhirl
Germany has a better equipped and trained army...what? ohhhh soccer ; ) - Marco
Marco ;-) (you aren't Dutch are you)? I think Portugal should win. Germany played pretty bad so far. If they can cope with the pressure, Portugal will win I think - Alexander van Elsas
Oh, and above? When I wrote that my money was on Portugal? What I really meant that my money was on Germany. That was one crazy typo! - Akiva Moskovitz
@Akiva: Yeah... what a typo! :)) It's called dyslexia! - directeur
Truly a rewarding cause. Nice to see there are still people out there who have a heart. - Mike Fruchter
Great idea, thomas! And the portrait is very touching. Thanks for sharing. - Kenichi Matsumoto
This is a very interesting project. It will be cool to see the body of work you collect over the course of several years. This could even become a book or a print show that you have talked about from time to time. - Jeff P. Henderson
I think the project is fascinating and I wish I could do that. But I'm too wary of people I think. I'd be afraid that if someone is desperate enough they'd grab my wallet or camera or both and I wouldn't want to have to deal with that. More power to you though, Thomas. I hope you get lots of good portraits and interactions. - Lindsay Donaghe
I have to remember to take the portrait. I usually give the money anyway. - Russellreno
