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“Music played from a compact disc is of higher quality than what comes out of an iPod — but you can’t easily carry 4,000 CDs with you on the subway or to the gym. Similarly, a professional television camera will produce a higher-quality image than a phone, but when something important happens, from the landing of a jet on the Hudson River to the murder of an Iranian protester, and there are no TV cameras around, images recorded on phones are good enough.”

Two articles from today’s New York Times especially caught my eye. On page 1 Inside the Situation Room: How a War Plan Evolved and Week in Review’s feature article, The War in Pashtunistan. I’ve become increasingly interested in being educated about the situation in Afghanistan over the last few weeks…

A commenter on a recent post reminded me of this film, which I had heard about a while ago, but had forgotten to check up on. 180° South retraces a trip down the Pan American Highway taken in 1968 by Yvon Chouinard and best friend Doug Tompkins, two heros of mine…

The cooler temps and bare trees have prompted me to take a look back recently on warmer weather this last summer. I’m happy to say that it was one of the greatest I’ve ever had. I think I spent most of my time out of the city, sometimes far away and when I was here there was always something fun going on. Here are some of my summer highlights…

Iced coffee isn’t dead…yet. (photos)

…ever. Just don’t do it.

…do I think this wine is better than it actually is, simply because I love the aesthetics of the label or that it is from Oregon?

I appreciate this clip so much.

Feeling disconnected from the rest of the Internet because of Twitter being down, I resorted to updating my Facebook status manually with a quick message about now being able to Tweet about Twitter being down, only to receive this error message:
Transport error (#1001) while retrieving data from endpoint `/ajax/updatestatus.php’: A network error occurred. Check [...]