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Will Ferrell does a devastatingly accurate impression of the president in this global warming skit.

The extremely talented and versatile journalist Carl Wilkinson has joined the online world and is posting his articles on everything from the music scene in New Orleans to the Sami people of Finland. Well worth a read.

Gladwell on the US pensions crisis.

Ben and I took the red-eye back from New York on Thursday after an exhausting barrage of meetings and facing a mountain of work to get done. However, before we got down to that, I knew somehow, somewhere I had to find a wetsuit for the weekend. In a fit of madness some months earlier, [...]

The Observer has a fantastic feature on New Orleans and the effect Katrina has had on its music scene. Some of the photos here are phenomenal.

The brilliant Ze Frank on the foiled terrorist attempt in the UK.

Yesterday, our flight experience consisted of getting upgraded, blagging our way through fast-track with cheeky smiles and not being blown up. This was a good start to the day. Heathrow apparently shut up shop shortly after we left because of a massive terrorist attack attempt that would have either cancelled or massively delayed our flight. [...]

The first seven months of 2006 were the warmest such stretch in the continental United States for any year since climate record-keeping began in 1895.

Ben and I decided to go to America today, we are leaving tomorrow. This is either typical of our flexibility and ability to adapt to fast-changing situations or evidence of our inability to plan. We will be in New York for most of next week, possibly flitting over to Salt Lake City or Nashville over [...]

Continuing our Antarctica film focus, Cynical C has a very cool timelapse video of a year in Antarctica filmed around McMurdo base.

The science and support types living through six months of darkness at the South Pole need to provide their own entertainment. Thus the Winterover Halfway Film Festival (WHIFF) was created. The production values and performance quality easily matches that of the best Cannes entrant and the special effects are truly groundbreaking. Many of the film [...]

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When life gives the Greenlandic Inuit global warming, they make beer.

Even Dark Lords of the Sith like to play silly buggers some time. (via).