Panorama
Here is a panorama Tom Lechner put together of one spot on Oregon’s Eagle Creek Trail. Here’s a version at his site that makes the coolness clearer. Tom makes these spherical panoramas by taking photos using a polyhedral jig, as pictured:
Fish
“Put another way, fish are better at math than your three month old kid.”
Related: Niniane eats at a vegan joint and likes it.
Triathlon for leukemia and lymphoma research
Julia is doing a triathlon to raise money for charity. If you’d like to sponsor someone who let me play accordion at her wedding, this is your chance.
Our weird situation in Iraq
John Robb: “The US military is now ‘nominally’ in charge of both the Iraqi insurgency and the Iraqi military/police.”
McCain’s strategy vs. Obama?
Josh Marshall: “The core is to drill a handful of key adjectives into the public mind about Barack Obama: Muslim, anti-American, BLACK, terrorist, Arab. Maybe a little hustler and shifty thrown in, but we’ll have to see.”
Lakoff on Clinton vs. Obama
This podcast interview just gets better as it goes on. Follow-up post from interviewer Dave Winer: “If you really want to understand why the Obama campaign is working and the Clinton campaign is fading, Lakoff understands it, and if you press him, he’ll get out of professor mode, and tell you how it works in words anyone with a brain and an education can understand. That’s his gift.”