Sunday, November 18, 2012

Michael Wolf's Tokyo Compression


Slate has launched a new photo blog and I think this piece about the lot of Tokyo's commuters was an arresting way to start.

It makes me feel a bit bad about how much I gripe about my ten minute bus ride that drops me off halfway up to the university campus. It's been packed sometimes, but not like this.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Rolling Jubilee starts November 15


And here I was, thinking Occupy Wall Street had lost some of its momentum...shows how little I know.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

How many people with your name?

I'm not on Facebook, but if I was, I would check out this fun tool to discover how many people with my name have already voted.

Fairly safe to say that in my case, there is at least one...