July 2008
“hypersonic… …it’s the future of aerospace….and always...”
– Blackswift Swoops in for $750 million | Danger Room from Wired.com
“CHINA now has more people getting online than any other country”
– Internet | Connecting the dragon | Economist.com
“Aspiring chemists from Iran, Turkey and Pakistan are immigrating to Afghanistan,...”
– Drugs: Drug Lords Hire Professional Chemists in Afghanistan
“Some days, the web feels like 5 people trying to make something; 5k people...”
– Twitter / Merlin Mann: Some days, the web feels li…
“The svelte and buffed cricketer of today is almost literally half the man his...”
– Cricket at Lord’s | A magical combination | Economist.com
“sounds like a contemporary dance track which was recorded, it is believed, in...”
– BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Lost tapes of the Dr Who composer
“Well, @#$%&?!, that’s cool.”
– That string of typographic symbols that substitute for swearing in cartoons? (kottke.org)
“The waiting list to get a first-hand glimpse of [Top Gear] being produced is an...”
– Want to watch Top Gear in person? Prepare to wait 21 years - Autoblog
“Can you imagine being in the room where THAT idea was presented”
– Design Observer
“If you got somewhere to be, you’ve got to fly,” one conductor tells me”
– GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - Train in Vain
“because learning doesn’t end with graduation”
– Official Google Blog: Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning
“The immune system in some people can cope with HIV after all”
– Pathologists Believe They Have Pinpointed Achilles Heel Of HIV
“In the U.K. for example, Google accounts for 87.34 percent of all searches.”
– Google pushes towards 70 percent of all U.S. searches; Yahoo, Microsoft push towards zero percent | The Industry Standard