Oh man.
This is awful. What’s even more awful is that according to CCTV’s numbers, this is just a speck compared to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. CCTV reports that this was about 400,000 gallons of oil compared to the estimated 94-184 million gallons for the BP spill. (CCTV’s numbers should usually be taken with a grain of salt, but still.)
25 July 2010 at 12:57 am → permalink
Mailbag: An early look at the Hawks roster – Chicago Blackhawks Blog – ESPN Chicago.
Still a very good team, but decidedly thinner than last year, that’s for sure.
15 July 2010 at 4:42 am → permalink
Very relieved about this.
9 July 2010 at 7:00 am → permalink
Great song from a Tool album that I’ve come back to in the last couple days. Some noise/atmospheric tracks on here, but just some absolute stunners as well. This song is one of them.
6 July 2010 at 3:04 am → permalink
An absolute scorcher today. Am I questioning my decision to stay in Beijing for the summer?
You betcha.
5 July 2010 at 3:54 am → permalink
Lightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time! from Craig Shimala on Vimeo.
via Daring Fireball
2 July 2010 at 9:56 am → permalink
WTF?!?!
Is this a Chicago Sun-Times thing, or just someone on their website staff having a laugh?
2 July 2010 at 12:43 am → permalink
This article has much of the no-B.S., cut straight to the point writing that Gruber is so good at. Here are a couple of my favorite lines:
The Retina Display is emblematic of the iPhone 4 as a whole, both hardware and software: the same fundamental idea as the original iPhone, but clarified.
More on the new display:
…it’s that the LCD is so much closer to the surface of the glass. Like pixels on glass rather than pixels under glass. This is the result of a new manufacturing process Apple has pioneered. No other company gives a shit about things like this.
And talking about durability:
And, for obvious reasons, the glass back raises concerns about the iPhone 4’s droppability. With previous iPhones, it was like dropping a piece of buttered toast — there was a lucky and unlucky side on which it could land. With the iPhone 4, it’s like dropping a piece of toast that’s been buttered on both sides.
Perfect analogy.
And he makes a very good point about the new, more squared design of the iPhone making it more comfortable to hold as a camera. Though I haven’t held an iPhone 4 yet, I would venture a guess that he’s dead-on.
Good stuff, all in all a great review.
1 July 2010 at 3:14 am → permalink
27 June 2010 at 11:15 am → permalink
What a year.
10 June 2010 at 10:25 pm → permalink