December 2009
18 posts
What was the best year of the decade?
According to Foreign Policy, below are the best years of the last decade - ranked from best to worst. It was interesting seeing what my mind assigned to each year. However, I did cheat and look at the New York Times Op-Ed chart after a little while. (Fyi, if you live in the U.S. and don’t think 2001 was the worst year of the decade, then you may be a terrorist. Go get yourself checked.)
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The Decade in Culture
2000: Y2K doesn’t end the world. Instead, the dot-com bubble peaks, then bursts, wiping out $5 trillion in market value of tech companies.
2001: Wikipedia launches, forever changing the face of human knowledge.
2002: Ashton Kutcher inflicts trucker hats on the world.
2003: Martha Stewart goes to prison, and makes a poncho.
2004: Mark Zukerberg launches Facebook from a Harvard dorm...
Broken Bells, the Danger Mouse + James Mercer...
Are Poor Children Overmedicated?
“A forthcoming volume of Health Affairs will include the surprising finding that children on Medicaid are four times more likely to be prescribed anti-psychotic medications than their privately insured counterparts…”
Read more at Change.org and The New York Times
Watch“The Tizzle Wizzle Show”
If you haven't heard...
clubrob:
If you haven’t heard, as of today, Facebook will automatically start plunging the Earth into the Sun. To change this option, go to Settings —> Planetary Settings —> Trajectory then UN-CLICK the box that says ‘Apocalypse.’ Facebook kept this one quiet. Copy and paste as your status message for all to see.
“16 Young People Are Murdered Every 24 Hours”
– CDC’s Study on Youth Violence
America's Most Wanted Teen-Aged Bandit →
Time has a fascinating story about a Washington state teen teenager who has practically been labeled a criminal since here was 8 years old and living with his mom near the Pugot Sound.
“Colton Harris-Moore, a gangly 18-year-old with furtive eyes and a dimpled chin, has been on police blotters since he was accused of stealing a bike at the age of 8. Since then, he is suspected of having...
Watch“Urban Abstract” by Musuta
Tim Burton's Lost Movie Pitches That We Wish... →
“A lot of Tim Burton’s early artwork in his MoMA retrospective consists of pitches for movies he never got to make… and they’d make some kick-ass films today. Here are the best Burton monsters and mutants that deserve screen time.”
Source: io9
