Asides

Tesla Roadster - the first impressions: you know, the electric sports car? I can’t wait to hear Top Gear’s review of it. The torque curve sounds off the chart (0 - 6000rpm at max torque!).

Barack Obama on MLK and the Civil Rights movement: Obama (and his speechwriters?) is bringing back the great art of oratory (via). I obviously can’t vote in America, but Obama seems to be the most well-spoken and inspiring candidate out there. The other candidates all look like they’ve calculated their lines and positions by polls; if Obama has, he’s a lot more subtle about it. Whoever gets the nomination, if it’s not him, fer cryin’ out loud, make him your VP. ...

More mid-summer/winter fiction! Esquire magazine mailed a napkin to 250 writers and asked them to write a short story on it. They got nearly a hundred back, and the results are available online.

I may have linked to this before, but what the hell: A Shade Less Perfect by Max Barry, author extraordinaire.

Sir Edmund Hillary, 1919 - 2008.