The Caribbean island of Cuba has recently been experiencing a strange outbreak of dengue. This may have resulted in hundreds of deaths throughout the island, something the Castro regime has done little to acknowledge the outbreak. Doctors at hospitals have also been dying from this disease leaving fewer individuals to properly treat patients. José Antonio […]
Archive for September, 2006
The Best of Friends
Published by September 29th, 2006 in Miscellaneous and Entertainment & Culture. 0 CommentsWhen Boston Legal began airing, it seemed like it would become yet another David E. Kelley ensemble show destined to last for 3-4 years as a strong show, then peter out due to weakness of storytelling with uninteresting, unfeeling characters and artificial storylines. Instead, unlike Ally McBeal and The Practice, both of which slowly moved […]
In 1942, someone by the unfortunate name Gomberg had a dream, a dream of a New World Moral Order. Personally, I think it ranks highly among instances of professional naivete—right up there with a certain U.S. president looked into the soul of a certain rogue from the Urals. If you wend your way through the […]
Engadget recently commented on the possibility that Wal-Mart threatened to order fewer DVDs if movie studios partnered with the iTunes movie store. Although this story isn’t very interesting, what caught my attention were the comments against Wal-Mart:
“Wal-Mart, lol. These corporations are so pathetic. I am so thankful that I have never spent a dime in […]
UES Meeting: Inequality
Published by September 12th, 2006 in Economics, UES and Meeting Records. 2 CommentsI hope that someone can reinstitute the UES Meeting Minutes feature here on Awkward Utopia. If we had minutes of today, we would have some real choice things to talk about– things that Moderate certainly needs to know as well. I should probably make this an ASIDE, but I want to highlight my two favorite […]
At UES we’ve long discussed education reform and the need for private competition. Last Thursday Microsoft opened a high school in Philadelphia. While I’m glad to hear about private involvement in education, this particular case is not significant. At $63 million dollars, paid for by the Philadelphia School District, they’ll only be educating about 170 […]
The BBC reports that, according to a local tradition in Japan, Jesus escaped the passion and died peacefully as a rice farmer in Japan. The article contains an interview with the Last Scion and discussion of Christianity in Japan.
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Some folks over at Princeton have created some interesting graphics (via Information Aesthetics) conveying a hefty amount of data. Although most of them break plenty of design rules, I particularly enjoyed the one below.
Of course the problem with these graphics is their lack of integrity. You could just as easily make a graphic like this […]
As I’ve thought about Steve Irwin’s death the past couple of days, I wonder if perhaps his life is an example of universal virtues. The constant passion and exuberance he displayed throughout his live overwhelms me so, that I cannot help but conclude this is something good, something we all should strive for. And to […]
