Long time no post. Been busy. Some accumulated links:

— Great piece in WaPo about Byron Mouton, a starter on the 2002 Maryland national champion college basketball team. As you can tell from that piece — which details his wanderings in the basketball minor leagues since graduation — Byron’s a good guy. And I’d say that even if he weren’t from my hometown in south Louisiana, if he didn’t grow up about five blocks from my house, and if we weren’t almost certainly related in some distant, antebellum way.

— A fun conversation between two of my favorite people: John Roderick (of long-time crabwalk.com fave the Long Winters) and Merlin Mann (of the Merlin Mann media empire). Both gentlemen, I suspect, should be better compensated for their work. (Some swearing, you should know.)

— Showtime saved the world a lot of BitTorrent bandwidth by simply posting episode one of the This American Life TV show online.

— A peek at Naypyidaw, the new junta-built capital of Myanmar (a.k.a. Burma). The city “is being built on a vast and extravagant scale in hundreds of square kilometres of tropical scrubland. Shining new buildings rise out of tropical scrub like a mirage, separated by miles of broad highways and boulevards.”

Sounds like a recipe for another unlivable clone of Niemeyer’s Brasilia. (A place I’d love to visit, given my love for all things brasileiro, but a place few would want to live in. By the way, did you realize Oscar Niemeyer was still alive, at age 99?)

These photos of the new Myanmari capital seem to support those who fear something Brasilia-like. “The reason I couldn’t walk about and shoot is very simple. The city is too huge to see anything on foot, there are virtually no taxis” — yep, that’s the fear of density you’d expect.

— I will be damned if I’m going to let Business 2.0 share my real estate secret with the world! (Although, to be honest, you don’t need $200K to buy in to Uruguay. There are lovely places in Colonia del Sacramento, in the old Portuguese quarter, for $60K. And you can buy a nice place in Treinta y Tres or Tacuarembó for well under that. And even in Punta you can get something under $100K. Or so I hear.)

— Here’s my column from Monday’s paper.

— Just ‘cause:

29 March 2007

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