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  • Since Eliud Kipchoge broke the 2 hour marathon mark, this popped up in my YouTube feed. It’s kinda crazy to see it in action.

  • “However, with the recent release of the Playboy® + Hello Kitty® Leica C camera, I feel that there is nothing I can write about the company which shows less respect than what they are doing themselves.”Don Craig

  • Via The Joy of Tech.

  • Photographer John Moore is no stranger to combat. As a member of an Associated Press team in 2005, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of the war in Iraq and he’s done extended stints in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, South Africa, Mexico and Nicaragua and elsewhere in the last 20 years.…

  • I don’t post about politics (or religion) often, but… –as seen on: salon.com “Whatever you might think of Islam as a religion and culture should have little bearing on how you relate to a person who is Muslim.” ~Jim Peterson in the introduction to The Crescent through the Eyes of the Cross by Nabeel Jabbour…

  • A study published today has found that Children born in rural China are three to six times more likely to die before they turn 5 than those in the cities, a study found, highlighting the wide gulf in healthcare provision for the rich and poor in China.

  • Shanghai prepares for Expo 2010

  • Beijing’s total population has exceeded 22 million, a mark that is supposed to be surpassed a decade later, the China National Radio reported today. –Article from China Daily

  • Dennis Stock, Photographer of Intimate Portraits, Dies at 81.

  • Thousands of people across China are getting married, believing that the date of 9 September 2009 will guarantee a long and happy union. The date “nine, nine” sounds like the saying “jiu,jiu” in Chinese, which can be translated as “long lasting”. The fact it is also 2009 has made the day even luckier for many…

  • 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of People’s Republic of China. Since 1949, enormous changes have taken place in China, and many events have gone down in history as a part of the national memory. China.org.cn presents a series of old photos to review the past 60 years.

  • Update: Gah…hit that post button too soon.  Go read the letter from the CEO and take advantage of their exchange program. Aw man.  I had to get rid of my Nalgene and now I have to give up my SIGG bottle too? High five to Wendy for the heads up.

  • Rock guitar pioneer Les Paul dies at age 94. I only know who he is because my dad has one of his guitars.

  • Just got this from my coworker about how the world’s youngest billionaires have lost nearly a third of their wealth, according to Forbes rich list. Then I wanted to write about an article I found the other day: What does one trillion dollars LOOK like? $10,000 $1 million $1 billion $1 trillion (the pallets are…

  • On Monday, President Obama lifted the ban on federal funding of stem-cell research using destroyed human embryos. If you support this research, congratulations: You won. Now for your next challenge: Don’t lose your soul.

  • The only text that is in quotes in the U.S. Constitution… I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States; and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend, the Constitution of the United States.

  • Illustration by Patrick Moberg.

  • …and I still love my kids.

  • Don’t know why anyone else would be interested in this, but I like having this documentation of my actions all across the web in one place. It’s like the newsfeed in Facebook, but it’s my very own web lifestream page. I used David Cramer’s lifestream plugin for wordpress. You can download it here. There’s also…

  • Edit: Sept. 3, 2008 me: i miss my adblocker joey: it has adblock joey: doesn’t it joey: o wait it doesn’t joey: lol it doesnt’ block google ads oh, and type about:internets into the address bar to get a fun little animation. If you haven’t heard the news, Google released its own browser today. Google…