Linkwad.

• Jonah Weiner’s Louis CK interview and profile.
• This eye-controlled computer is excellent, but undoubtedly already patented.
• For Baltimore job creation, filmmaking > racing. For the record, fixing potholes > racing. PS: the Brew is now on Kickstarter.
• Skip past the Tebow part for some actual knowledge on fourth down calls, momentum, and challenges.

Linkwad.

New year, old awfulness. Let’s get it.

• All together now, “Waaaaaaah!”
• I think this is a bit of false equivalence, as Iowa doesn’t currently have the kind of repressive voter ID law that he’s complaining about (That said, voter ID laws are transparently bullshit).
• If alternative energy weren’t a culture war touchstone, faced with this kind of information about oil (and gas), people would agree that we need other energy sources. But it is, so we don’t.
• More awful stories from North Korean defectors.

The ones you try to forget.

Double Dagger, one of Baltimore’s better punk bands, is calling it quits after nine years. If you’re in Chicago¹, DC, NYC, or Baltimore², you should check out one of their last shows.

Update: I totally should have called this post “Our history has no future.” Oh well.

Just a humble motherfucker…

…With the best motivational posters ever (update: maybe NSFW, so after the jump):

More…

The clock washed midnight away.

Initially, I was just going to post something smarmy for Hurricane Isabel, comme ça:

That was before I read things like “Irene is capable of inundating portions of the coast under 10 – 15 feet of water, to the highest storm surge depths ever recorded,” and “Mass evacuations of low-lying areas along the entire coast of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia are at least 50% likely to be ordered by Saturday.”

There are plenty more terrifying scenarios in the rest of the post (although it leaves out the possibility¹ of a No Man’s Land scenario), and this map shows you which areas will be screwed, based on storm strength.

That said, my hurricane preparedness strategy currently revolves around buying prosciutto and baguettes, downloading TV shows and listening to Gil Scott-Heron. This may prove insufficient.