The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
grist.orgToday brings two of the must jaw-droppingly moronic stories I've ever seen, both in Politico, both written by Erika Lovely, who one can only assume...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
By David Roberts This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while: on Slate, Julia Christensen has a slideshow essay showing how some communities have repurposed abandoned big box retail spaces . My favorite is the one in Austin, Minn., where they renovated an abandoned K-Mart to become a Spam museum. Yes, a Spam museum. And not the email kind either.
Gristmill (Free subscription) | yesterday
By David Roberts Streetsblog brings word of a bafflesome episode in the life of San Francisco : Two-and-a-half years after a judge issued an injunction preventing the city from adding any new bicycle infrastructure to its streets, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and the San Francisco Planning Department have released a 1353-page Draft Environmental Impact Report...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
By David Roberts There's a lot of commentary flying around about Obama's security team, announced this morning . I recommend Spencer Ackerman . Everybody's wrestling with the same questions. On natsec, just like with the economic team, Obama is appointing relatively centrist, establishment figures. What are we supposed to make of this? One interpretation is that Obama is abandoning the...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
By David Roberts In GQ this month, rogue skyscraper-climber Alain Robert -- who free climbs, using no ropes or equipment -- offers an account of scaling the New York Times building to hang a banner halfway up: When I was about fourteen stories up, I took the banner from under my shirt and tied it. It said GLOBAL WARMING KILLS MORE PEOPLE THAN 9/11 EVERY WEEK. When I got near the roof,...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Wildcats earning second-team honors included redshirt freshman receiver David Roberts (3.34, engineering), senior offensive tackle James Tretheway (3.39 economics), junior H-back/tight end Chris Gronkowski (3.27, accounting) and junior defensive back Corey Hall (3.18, accounting). Hall earned first-team honors as a junior with a 3.43 GPA.
Scott Wolf inside USC (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... Jr. 3.12 Management, Science & Engineering RB Trevor Theriot, UCLA Jr. 3.25 Political Science WR David Roberts, Arizona RFr. 3.34 Engineering WR Taylor Kavanaugh, Oregon State Jr. 3.31 Construction Engineering TE Chris Gronkowski, Arizona Jr. 3.27 Accounting OL Joe Eppele, Washington State So. 3.54 Psychology OL Micah Hannam, Washington State So. 3.57 Civil Engineering OL Andy Levitre,...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
... need to market and sell security solutions to small and mid-size businesses and enterprises," said David Roberts, senior vice president of Americas Sales, Websense. "Partner enablement has always been at the core of our and will play a significant role at our Partner Conference. The agenda is packed with valuable sessions that will help our partners build successful security practices,...
After Gutenberg (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... instance, takes the time to go through Wired’s list of “heresies” one-by-one and critique each. David Roberts goes a little more meta, poking fun at the conceit that the Wired section is on the heretical cutting edge: Guess what? Environmentalists are just going to have to accept that dense, vibrant cities are the best way for people to live together sustainably! (2001, can I put...
Short Sharp Science (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... Lovley's stories, I found half a dozen websites had already torn her reporting to shreds including David Roberts of Grist.org who called the stories "the most jaw-droppingly moronic stories I've ever seen," and characterised Lovely as "the most dimwitted, gullible reporter in DC" . Ouch. Returning to my desk from the Thanksgiving holiday I was pleased to read that Politico apologised...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... often seen clutching dog-eared copies of Shantaram, a roman à clef by Australian writer Gregory David Roberts, in which the restaurant finds mention.After black-clad Indian commandos finally killed or captured the last of the gunmen, life began returning to normal yesterday, and not just at the Leopold.Related ArticlesRecent The honking cars were back. Vegetable hawkers, street-food...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
By David Roberts We didn't do much coverage of the L.A. Auto Show, because we don't have the resources WE CONDEMN THE DECADENT LEMMING CARBURBAN FANTASIA! But I just read a bunch of stuff about it over on CNet's CarTech blog , and some it it was quite cool. Probably the biggest news -- something I may devote a post to soon -- is Hyundai's new battery concept: lithium polymer, which Hyundai...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
By David Roberts A closer look at Bush's last-minute anti-environmental regs:
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... often seen clutching dog-eared copies of Shantaram, a roman à clef by Australian writer Gregory David Roberts, in which the restaurant finds mention.After black-clad Indian commandos finally killed or captured the last of the gunmen, life began returning to normal yesterday, and not just at the Leopold.The honking cars were back. Vegetable hawkers, street-food vendors and lemonade...
Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
A distress call from a backcountry hiker in northern Alaska led to a long distance rescue over the weekend, spanning more than 3,000 miles, the Alaska State Troopers reported Saturday.It began when a personal locator beacon control center in Texas received a call for help Friday from a transmitter registered to an Australian named David Roberts. According to the GPS signal, Roberts...
