Dispatches

Things Thomas Sibley cares about enough to throw up on the interwebs. For the first half of 2009, that mostly meant dispatches from New Zealand.

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Please mind the gaps.
March 10
“ Thanks to lobbying, Congress chooses to subsidize foods that we’re supposed to eat less of.
Read the rest of the NYTimes blurb.
March 5
American Gothic: Scanned from a 4x5 negative. Better viewed large. See the original upload (still not full resolution!) for finer detail.

American Gothic: Scanned from a 4x5 negative. Better viewed large. See the original upload (still not full resolution!) for finer detail.

March 1
Essay: How Not to Depict a War
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Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical
February 12

Elliðaey, Iceland

I posted a photo of a house yesterday.  A little sleuthing this morning turned up it’s location as the island Elliðaey in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago just off the southern coast of Iceland.  What looks like an Icelandic tourism site has more information and photos (translated).  Here it is as seen on Google Maps:


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February 11
Wouldn’t living there for a few months be just awesome?

Wouldn’t living there for a few months be just awesome?

February 1
A Recluse? Well, Not to His Neighbors
January 10
The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s
January 2
Safety of Beef Processing Method Is Questioned

Ugh. This is disgusting.
December 21
I love how the snow accentuates the contrast of the landscape (and shows the folds of PA!) even from space. From the excellent Earth Observatory.

I love how the snow accentuates the contrast of the landscape (and shows the folds of PA!) even from space.

From the excellent Earth Observatory.