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After the end of the Farnborough Air Show where the SR-71 was on display outside the United States for the first time, it set another record on the way home. This time the spy plane flew from London to Los Angeles, a distance of 5,446.87 miles in just 3 hours, 47 minutes, 39 seconds. That flight required two refueling slowdowns as well as other speed zones when flying over major U.S. cities.

Posted at 2:21pm.

So there’s my handy tool for time management: would you pay $5 to do what you’re doing right now? If not, why are you doing it?
Of course we can afford a government that actually works: the fact is that your parents have simply chosen not to have it.

Yeah I would watch TV ads if they were more like this one. 

Posted at 12:56pm.

Just got around to seeing this, what a great song and video.

F**K YOU (via Neven Mrgan)

Posted at 11:42am.

I must admit that sometime last year I stopped wearing my wristwatches. My reasons are two-fold I rarely use them to tell time, and they annoy my when I am typing (something I do often). I still wear them when with suits and on other formal occasions.

Posted at 9:29am.

Thousands of trucks have jammed National Expressway 110 since Aug. 14, creating a traffic jam stretching 100 kilometers. Authorities attribute the mess to highway construction exacerbated by accidents and breakdowns. Police are trying to keep tempers from flaring in what is the second massive jam to tie up the highway in the past month.

Holy crap this is the second one???

(via Instapaper)

Posted at 6:47pm.

In science, you move closer to the truth by seeking evidence to the contrary. Perhaps the same method should inform your opinions as well.
Learn to write, and not school-style writing. A text editor is a perfectly viable design tool. Graphic design has just as much to do with words as it does with pictures, and a lot of my favorite designers come to design from the world of words instead of the world of pictures.

I disagree with Obama being on the one dollar bill would go with Washington. Love vertical concept and the sizing. Beautiful work.

Posted at 11:55am.

Great, great post.

My father always told me that the day we stop learning is the day we die. I wrote this as a sort of preparation for my 35th birthday last week. Some of these are poignant, others are simply trite; I attribute the latter to my growing sense of sentimentality as I age. That, and I need an editor.

Posted at 11:14am.

I love woot.com’s descriptions, always relevant. 

Posted at 9:00am and tagged with: woot,.

I love woot.com’s descriptions, always relevant.