Show Notes for February 6, 2013
- Swiss Card
- includes roundtrip to/from airport
- 1/2 price ticket
- Fonds de dotation / endowment fund
- Stately font: "Stately is a symbol font that makes it easy to create a map of the United States using only HTML and CSS. Each state can be styled independently with CSS for making simple visualizations. And since it's a font, it scales bigger and smaller while staying sharp as a tack."
- John Cleese debate on The Life of Brian (1979) (Part I / Part II)
- Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
- Subways
- Subway hero Wesley Autrey (that was 5 years ago)
- Woman Is Charged With Murder as a Hate Crime in a Fatal Subway Push: “I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I’ve been beating them up.”
- Lyon Metro Line D [MAGGALY (Métro Automatique à Grand Gabarit de l’Agglomération Lyonnaise)]
- La mode du boguet (1974) (30 km/h max)
- White House weighs in on Puerto Rican statehood vote: "After more than 800,000 Puerto Rican voters said they want the island to become the 51st U.S. state, the White House is calling on lawmakers to take action."
- French Overseas Departments and Territories (DOM-TOM): "These territories have varying legal status and different levels of autonomy, although all […] have representation in the Parliament of France, and consequently the right to vote in elections to the European Parliament."
- Google Deferred Compensation Plan
- Richard III
- Bones Under Parking Lot Belonged to Richard III (nytimes): "archaeologists used ground-penetrating radar on the site of the former priory and discovered that it was not underneath a 19th century bank where it was presumed to be, but under a parking lot across the street. The remains were located within days of the start of digging"
- Shakespeare: “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.”
- Leysin: "Leysin is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in the Aigle district of Switzerland."