Adam Kuban: Kublog

my rest stop on the information superhighway

Herrenknecht tunnel boring machines

The New Yorker ran a fascinating story last week about the German company Herrenknecht and its tunnel-boring machines. Here’s a link to the story, but don’t bother clicking through. It’s just an abstract; the whole thing isn’t online. Anyway, I thought the story could have benefited from a few good photos of the machines it [...]

Links from Monday, September 15, 2008 to Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Wall Street’s Collapse Delivers an Overdue Wake Up Call to Startups"One theme that has been emerging is being referred to as 'web meets world.' It's an idea that has been discussed by Brad Burnham from Union Square Ventures, and also the folks at the Web 2.0 Summit. The concept is that the web needs to [...]

It would be funny if it weren’t so true

I would find this headline from the Times funny if the news behind it weren’t so terrifying. As if any reassurances from Bush are worth a hill of beans. I think a Times copy editor was employing some dry gallows humor here.