T Williamson

Fishers Town Talk – Google is planning to launch an experiment that will help make internet access better and faster. They plan to test ultra-high-speed  broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country. The networks will deliver internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today. [...]

… he started telling visitors that his wife had died, despite the fact that she was still very much alive, and that the “drunken nagging woman” who frequented the building was simply her ghost.  (Read his bio)

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MIAMI – In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana. Long [...]

If you voted for marijuana as a CitizenTube question, then your vote didn’t count. Yes, questions about marijuana were the most popular in the CitizenTube voting Monday afternoon. But YouTube, in a gutless move, decided at the last minute not to present the highest ranked questions to the President. Initial reports that the President had [...]

150,000 is a big number by anyone’s standards, but for a small country like Haiti, it is unfathomable. This is what America would look like if we lost a proportionate number of our citizens to a natural disaster… (via)

By DAVID BROOKS Published: January 11, 2010 Jews are a famously accomplished group. They make up 0.2 percent of the world population, but 54 percent of the world chess champions, 27 percent of the Nobel physics laureates and 31 percent of the medicine laureates. Jews make up 2 percent of the U.S. population, but 21 [...]