Comparative Planetology
BldgBlog interviews Kim Stanley Robinson
Those Crazy Russians
Putin named Time’s Man Person of the Year. A truly weird choice–they spend most of the article trying to convince you, no really, this is a good choice.
2007 Ideas
The New York Times tracks the best ideas of the year.
Big Lego
5000 Piece Lego Set of the Millennium Falcon.
CARMA
A mashup of Google maps and pollution data. No wonder i had asthma as a kid.
In Danish
really there’s only one button you can push (via swissmiss).
Chinese Sub
surfaces in the middle of U.S. carrier group. You know world’s going to hell when the headlines read like a Tom Clancy novel.
Blue Texas
Speculating on the unlikely chance that the State House could go to the Democrats in 2008. Still plenty of time for them to drop the ball though.