another weblog

Why lie about this? Another via unfogged.

Wow. Land Rover and Jaguar are now owned by an Indian company.

I think this really speaks to how far India has come as an industrial/business center.

Maybe next, China will buy Microsoft.

Link via ogged.

A scanned book of logos from the 70′s

via 43folders

nothing yet…

I’m guessing the original pitch was something like “Think Braveheart, but with Wooly Mammoths!”

I’ll save you the trouble. Here’s the best parts:

Because I have nothing original to say, but I am compelled to start writing here at least semi-regularly…

this sounds like great fun.

My favorite paragraph:

“We’ve had a few mutinies in the past,” Victor Navasky, the former publisher of The Nation, who has been on all 10 Nation cruises, told me. “Like the year Christopher Hitchens, at a morning panel, plunked a bottle of whiskey down on the table and made a joke about Princess Di that some passengers thought was sexist. So the passengers organized a women’s caucus to redress the gender imbalance on the panels.”

Only liberals mutiny by organizing a caucus…

Thanks J.

RSS feeds are pretty much standard these days for blogs and news sites alike.

So when I heard that what was THE magazine for tech/web industry news before the bubble broke last time, The Industry Standard (it subsequently folded in the crash) was relaunching in a strictly web-only format, I thought “I’d better add that to my google reader stack.”

But alas, no RSS feed. Anywhere. Not that I can find.

What’s the deal, guys? I’m hoping that it’s just because you are in beta and haven’t added it yet.

The experience of an icelandic woman in the USA:

…they were treating me like a very dangerous criminal. Soon thereafter I was removed from the cubicle and two armed guards placed me up against a wall. A chain was fastened around my waist and I was handcuffed to the chain. Then my legs were placed in chains. I asked for permission to make a telephone call but they refused. So secured, I was taken from the airport terminal in full sight of everybody. I have seldom felt so bad…

There’s more.

Is this a failure of our system at the institution of draconian immigration policies, or the abuse of power by megalomaniac immigration workers? Either way, why in the hell is this allowed to happen?