Free Rice / words you don’t know

Free Rice / words you don’t know

Lots of frenchified stuff in there, but still fun and for a good purpose. That said, my first run through was still my best – I can’t recreate the belief that I’d know everything and that even my guesses would be correct.
Readability bookmarklet

Readability bookmarklet

Nice bookmarklet creator that will resize and reflow web pages to make them more readable. I like it for some of the longer Wired articles. Let’s see if I keep using it.
Online newspapers

Online newspapers

Some entertaining financial illustration of the gulf facing news publishers.£155 is what a paid-up reader is worth to a newspaper each year£5 is the annual revenue from a newspaper online (not sure I buy this; is this as an add-on to the print subscription?)£2 is...
Secdef and “shocking” ideas

Secdef and “shocking” ideas

Not as pretty as POTUS, but an enlightening discussion on decision making and responsibility in the US DOD. Not a job anyone would take lightly. No wonder Bob Ainsworth is having a difficult time.Separately, is it just me or do the 12 shocking ideas all seem pretty...

Scenes from the ISS

You have to love shots from above. I wasn’t sure whether I preferred the pyroclastic flows or the gibbous moon (yes, it is that way around).