Category Archives: ESL Links

Always looking for new ways to organize and retrieve information, Google has forced me to rewrite "10 Things I Bet You Never Knew about Google". I guess I’ll wait for one more good one and upgrade to "A Dozen Things…." … Continue reading →

BERLIN (Reuters) – Three German teenagers were being investigated for fraud Friday after they spent $160 million in a two-hour Internet shopping spree because they were "bored," authorities said Friday. The 19-year-olds splashed out on light aircraft, patents, industrial machinery, … Continue reading →

BERLIN (Reuters) – Three German teenagers were being investigated for fraud Friday after they spent $160 million in a two-hour Internet shopping spree because they were "bored," authorities said Friday. The 19-year-olds splashed out on light aircraft, patents, industrial machinery, … Continue reading →

How come every time the crypto-fascists take a major step forward in their ongoing crusade to control every aspect of American life, they test it out on the kids first? How about obligatory, universal drug testing?  That;s what they’re up … Continue reading →

Is face recognition software ready for prime time?  It seems to work much better in controlled situations, like airports, where the subject can be made to sit still and smile at the camera, and not so well when surveiling large … Continue reading →

Still sitting in stunned exhaustion after the end of the semester Friday. The snow outside has turned to a cold hard rain pelting the storm windows like icy BBs. The cat is in my lap, trying to figure out why … Continue reading →

Is it a children’s game? Is it an obscure orgami design? Is it some sort of Ancient Greek Rubik’s Cube? For centuries, Archimedes treatise called the Stomachion, only fragments of which survive, has fascinated, well, people who are fascinated by … Continue reading →

Thailand’s prime minister has banned vagrant elephants from the streets of Bangkok in an effort to ease traffic chaos. Thaksin Shinawatra says elephants brought in from the countryside cause road problems in the congested capital city. In his national weekly … Continue reading →

Thomas Northington, a long-unemployed and homeless artist, was alone and adrift on the streets of Boston when he somehow ended up under the wheels of an MBTA bus he had just been thrown off of for not having the full … Continue reading →

In a race between a Ferrari and a fighter jet, score one out of three for Michael Schumacher. Formula One champion’s Ferrari F2003-GA was a nose faster than pilot Maurizio Cheli’s Eurofighter Typhoon in the first race of 600 meters. … Continue reading →

Germany’s self-confessed cannibal killer Armin Meiwes has been sent a vegetarian cookbook and a Christmas hamper full of veggie burgers and tofu. Animals rights group Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is behind the stunt and says it … Continue reading →

Doc Searles caught me on the Webcast of the Thursday Night Berkman Group audioblabbing I needed a beer. I never got one.  We ended up at Boca Grande, which has great Tacos and Enchiladas but no liquor licence.  Teleparticipants were … Continue reading →