Archive for June, 2007
Washington Post Series on Cheney - The Angler
The Washington Post has just concluded a four part series on Vice President Dick Cheney called ‘The Angler’, playing off the code name given the Vice President by his secret service detail. Cheney is in fact an avid angler - one of my roommates once had his afternoon of fishing in Montana interrupted by a […]
John Heilemann on Steve Jobs
John Heilemann takes a look at Steve Jobs in a Box for NY Magazine and notes “It’s a stunning box, a wizard object with a passel of amazing features (It’s a phone! An iPod! A Web browser!). But for all its marvels, the iPhone inaugurates a dangerous new era for Jobs. Has he peaked?”
Rev. David Kirk, founder of Harlem’s Emmaus House, a community for the homeless, remembered
The NY Times had a rather remarkable obituary for Rev. David Kirk, a community leader who established Emmaus House in Harlem. Excerpt below. Audio available from NPR’s All Things Considered in Remembrances: Rev. Kirk, A Leader of Aid for the Poor.
Father Kirk, for decades a presence in the civil rights and antiwar movements, established Emmaus […]
Toward The Near - Houston Film Commission Short Films on YouTube
Another cool film from the Houston Film Commission Short Films on YouTube
Social Innovation Conversations: Pura Vida Coffee
From the Social Innovations Podcast comes a talk from John Sage, co-founder and CEO of Pura Vida Coffee. John tells the story of his friend Chris, a friend he met through a Christian fellowship group when they were both in the Harvard Business School. While John went to work for a start up tech company […]
LOLcats are in your internets, making u….um, LOL
Since I spend the better part of my life staring at the internet - for work, actually, lest you think I’m even more pathetic than I actually am - I’m not always aware of what is and is not commonly knowledge among normals. I was reminded of this when I started talking about LOLcats the […]
Houston Film Commission Short Films on YouTube
I recently stumbled on these The Houston Film Commission Collection on YouTube. I present:
72 oz. Steak
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What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Classic.