Gaga on Stage
Yep, way up in the nosebleed section. Also, photos from my new iPhone4. They come out pretty nice.
links for 2010-07-14
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Bookmarking for the emulator lists.
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Some things you've heard that turn out to be urban legends.
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Yahoo produces a style guide for online copy. I'm skeptical… We have some great style guides in the Chicago Manual of Style and the AP Style Guide. I wonder why we need another, even for online.
Barack’s Summer BBQ
I’m not a fan of College Humor usually, but I liked this one.
Fishers, Indiana and “Best Places to Live 2010”
Money Magazine ranks Fishers, Indiana number 8 on the list of “best places to live” in 2010. The criteria? “These terrific small cities — even now — boast plenty of jobs, great schools, safe streets, low crime, lots to do, charm, and other features that make a town great for raising a family.”
Interesting idea. I haven’t broken down all the charts to try to see behind the curtain at how they put together these rankings, but I sure have some reactions.
Among them:
1) Indianapolis is a small city. Fishers is a town.
2) I’d rather blow my brains out than live in Fishers. That is completely personal and a reaction to having grown up in the suburbs, but I can’t get past the “Little Boxes” song whenever I visit that town or any other in Hamilton County.
3) The data seems to me to suppose that you’re white, middle class and and that you have 2.5 kids as a basis for finding these places desirable to live in.
4) Yay for Hamilton County, but is Marion County doomed as a result? The success of one is a direct result of the degradation of the other due to decades of white flight – Indianapolis and surrounds being such a shining example of that phenomenon that it was literally institutionalized into Indianapolis government through Unigov. The key to Marion County reviving itself is somewhat dependent on the reversal of white flight and attracting some of those fliers back into the metropolis – if that’s even possible in Indiana.
links for 2010-07-11
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Indiana's new tax caps, enshrine in the constitution, will turn the state into a third world economy.
links for 2010-07-09
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"As I shuffled back to the living room, I thought of something a friend once said about the Children’s Museum of Manhattan—“a nice place, but what it really needs is a bar”—and rued how, at that moment, the same thing could be said of my apartment."
Who does this look like?
The actually photo is of Lewis Powell, one of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. The photo was taken in 1865. But I swear the man looks like an actor I’ve seen in a movie or TV show somewhere just recently. I want to say it was something historical – like a Jane Austen movie, or something along those lines, and that the modern day actor who looks like him is English. It’s just not coming to mind at moment, and it’s going to bug me until I figure it out.
UPDATE: I figured out who I was thinking of, although he wasn’t in a Jane Austen movie – actor Karl Urban, who played the new McCoy in Star Trek and he was a character in Lord of the Rings.
Although honestly, I think Powell is more handsome with the square jaw. Similar penetrating stares, though.
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