Arsenal’s Aaron Ramsey writhes in pain on the ground after a leg-breaking tackle from Stoke City’s Ryan Shawcross. Look closely at Ramsey’s ankles. I don’t think they are meant to hang like that.

Photo from the front page of ESPNSoccernet.

Google Translate is useful, just not all of the time.

Editing a story about rural migrant workers in China. This passage caught my eye:

Li Ping, who comes from Youngxiu County, dropped out of school when he was 16 years old and went to Shenzhen. Li dropped out of school because he always had a headache when he read books, a common ailment among children in the countryside.

Hmm, probably not a good sign for the future long-term development of China…

China and India are the obvious 1 and 2, but I was surprised to see that the United States is number 3, though a very distant number 3.

When you look at these numbers, it seems so strange that two countries have such a massive percentage of the world’s population. And, that the gap between country number 2 and country number 3 is a mind-boggling 868,578,000 people. Though I’m not disputing these numbers, it’s such a mind-bender that it almost seems that there was a mistake made somewhere in there.

Regardless, thank you Wikipedia for your endless treasure trove of random facts.

Wow.

Fascinating that only about 10% of the oceans have been mapped too. There’s so much still out there.

Inspired by The Setup, and a general interest in what people’s setups are, I thought I’d offer my own. My reasoning goes along with Steven Frank’s here:

I always love reading about other people’s setups, so I can pluck out ideas, and it is in that spirit that I present this information to you.

So here it is.

My computer is a 13-inch Macbook Pro, with a 2.53GHz processor and 4GB of RAM. At my desk I have it sitting on a Griffin Elevator stand. I use an Apple wireless keyboard and a Logitech Trackman. After many years of using various USB and wireless mice, I finally circled back to the Trackman, and it’s been by far one of the best decisions I’ve made.

I have 3 external hard drives, 2 for backups and 1 for storage. For backups I use a combination of SuperDuper and Time Machine. Every night, or nearly every night, I clone my hard drive to an external using SuperDuper. My love for this program was secured when one time I had to restore from a SuperDuper’ed external hard drive (luckily not in an emergency) and it worked flawlessly. I hadn’t used Time Machine in quite a while, but recently I went back to it for the purpose of versioning. In addition to simply being a second backup, it’s nice to know that I can roll things back if necessary or go and grab an older version of a file. I was inspired to resume using Time Machine after reading this post by Steven Frank about his backup regimen.

My phone is an iPhone 3G. I have it jailbroken and unlocked (sorry AT&T) because I’m using it in China. I don’t use many apps but I do use a couple quite a bit. I use Instapaper and Simplenote all the time. Two more that I occasionally use are the WordPress app, for posting to this blog, and the PCalc Lite calculator. I don’t really know why I use this, but I guess it just looks better than the built-in calculator. Other than these I primarily use the built-in apps. I play some of the games occasionally. When I was on the iPhone in the U.S., Tweetie and the Facebook app also received heavy usage.

Software-wise, things get a bit more diverse. Here are the main ones:

Adium – I’m not a huge online chatter, but I’ve recently had to start using MSN for work, and the support for multiple chat accounts in Adium is killer. Currently I have an AIM, a Google Talk, 2 MSN accounts, and a Facebook chat account all going through here. The ability to keep them all just bundled up and managed in one place is fantastic. And the innumerable themes available for it are also great.

TextMate – I’m a recent convert. I got into TextMate after I started learning and getting more into Ruby programming. I’ve also started using it for my general writing as I like to keep things in plain text whenever possible.

Terminal – I wish I was more adept at using the Terminal. I do use it cautiously though, and I’ve been using it more often lately for Ruby and Ruby on Rails execution.

Word – Not a huge fan of MS Word, but I have to use it for work.

Safari – In terms of web browsers, I’ve bounced around quite a bit between Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome. I really like Chrome, but it’s lack of several key features really hinders it for me. Firefox is solid. In the end though I just keep going back to Safari.

Mail – Although I love the Gmail web interface, I’ve never been able to get Google Gears to sync correctly for offline email use, so lately I’ve moved back to Mail. For the longest time my complaint with Mail was that I couldn’t get it to sync properly with my IMAP account, things would always go off in weird places or there would be some sort of disconnect. I’ve got it mapped correctly now though and I’m really liking it. It’s nice to just disconnect sometimes and go to a coffee shop or whatever and catch up on email.

Coda – I use this for all my HTML and CSS needs, and it also works as my FTP client. Fantastic program.

MarsEdit – A while back, when I was on Tumblr, I checked out MarsEdit, but couldn’t see it’s usefulness. Not that I’m on WordPress, I swear by it. Once again, nice to have local drafts, etc. for offline work.

Transmission – Finally put in the time to figure out torrents. I use it lightly and primarily download TV shows that are hard to find over here. I love how easy and lightweight Transmission is.

iTunes – My hub for pretty much all media.

Google Reader – I have this running as a Fluid app. Best RSS reader out there, bar none.

Notational Velocity – Just started with this. I like working with text files and this seems like the ultimate for that. The instant syncing with Simplenote is unbelievable. Total game-changer.

Beyond what I have right now, pretty much the only thing that I would want to make my setup complete would be a 24-inch Apple Cinema Display, that and maybe a Drobo…

Reading (Rifle) Magazines – At War Blog – NYTimes.com

Fascinating blog entry from C.J. Chivers on how the Taliban sustains itself.