Category: Quickhit

[What’s the natural equilibrium point for steroid use in sports](http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/dec/14/marksspencer.europe?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront). Personally I’m strongly in favour of allowing all drugs. The athletes are going to risk their lives anyway, and think of the spinoff benefits from the drug development by the really big companies like Merck and Pfizer.

[Another complex, confusing film](http://www.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/thesignal/trailer/). Looks great. I love films you come out of going ‘what on earth did that mean?’.

[In the 1920s Australian radios had to be locked to a single frequency](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/04/australian-drm-from.html). Of course, arguably some of the current policies about DRM are just as silly.

[The best astronomy pictures of 2007](http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/12/13/top-ten-astronomy-pictures-of-2007/). There’s a lot of universe out there. It’d be nice to go visit it from a bit closer.

[A collection of reviews from Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel](http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper/balcony.html). An enormous collection. A lot of fun to see the take on some of the classic films. They got *The Shawshank Redemption* right.

[God’s Eye View](http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/the-bible-according-to-google-earth/) – satellite images of biblical events. Nice series of four pictures, but there are lots more you could do – walls of Jericho, David & Goliath, Sodom & Gomorrah. Could be quite a fun project.

[“The true story of how a playboy congressman, a renegade CIA agent and a beautiful Houston socialite joined forces to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history.”](http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/charliewilsonswar/) Looks like a really entertaining film, I’m looking forward to it.

[The SMH stretches the limits of ‘not identifying’](http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/lawyer-remanded-in-custody/2007/12/28/1198778665451.html?s_cid=rss_news). This is, in my mind, complete contempt of court. You either have a rule that really prevents identification or you don’t. No sensible person could possibly fail to make the correct identification of the suspect from that story, so long as they’d been reading [the SMH earlier…

[The trends in logos for 2007](http://www.logolounge.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=540). I would be very happy if the Urban Vinyl designs could calm down a bit, they’re nice but don’t work for everyone.

[Some highlights from the archives of the New York Times](http://www.kottke.org/07/09/gems-from-the-archive-of-the-new-york-times). When you’ve got over 150 years of content, you can find some pretty amazing pieces of history.