July | 2011 | BLURBOMAT

The Truth About Federal Spending

A bit of economic wonk from Paul Krugman on his NYTimes blog: The Truth About Federal Spending — NYTimes.com. A 6 percent … Continue reading →

What is Really Happening in Washington D.C.

One of the best depictions of the debt “crisis”: KAL’s cartoon | The Economist.

Ok Go! All Is Not Lost

‪OK Go + Pilobolus — All Is Not Lost — Official Video‬‏ — YouTube. Love the kaleidoscopic imagery.

The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling

Its based on data from the Congressional Budget Office and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Its significance is … Continue reading →

Online commenting: the age of rage

Great piece in the Guardian about internet trolls and the effects of anonymity on human behaior: Lees detractors were all … Continue reading →

Two Ex-News Of The World Employees Claim James Murdoch Misled Parliament

Two Ex-News Of The World Employees Claim James Murdoch Misled Parliament | TPMMuckraker. According to Murdoch’s testimony to Parliament, he … Continue reading →

Song: Soft

Can’t stop playing this. There’s enough reverb here to swallow Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes and My Morning Jacket combined.

Macworld’s Review of Mac OS X 10.7

But the last four years have seen some dramatic changes at Apple. In that time, while Mac sales have continued … Continue reading →

News International ‘deliberately’ blocked investigation | Media | The Guardian

Rupert Murdoch’s News International company has been found by a parliamentary committee to have “deliberately” tried to block a Scotland Yard criminal … Continue reading →

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review

If you read any review of the new operating system Apple launched today, it should be this one: Mac OS X 10.7 … Continue reading →

Parliament Committee Hearing Day

I love that there was little hot air from the Parliament committee and a ton of hot air from the News … Continue reading →

The Old Man and the Building

Jaw Dropping Stories from England

Graeme Robertson/Getty Images This just keeps getting crazier. First up is the story of John Yates, London Metropolitan police assistant … Continue reading →