R.M

If you want to check out random articles I find most interesting, I’ve routed my Instapaper starred posts feed through Google Reader so they can be presented for public consumption.  There’s also a link to it in my sidebar.

“What’s Instapaper?”, I hear you asking.

Instapaper is sort of like DVR for the Web. It’s a simple web tool that lets you mark a website to “read later” using a bookmarklet in your browser. The entire page is copied and whisked away to a few different places, including: a separate website that lists your articles, including folders for organization; and an app on the iPhone, where I can read everything offline (i.e., while on the subway).

It’s built and maintained by the lead developer of Tumblr, Marco Arment. So yeah, it works.

pablog:

Jesse Andrews’ analysis never fails to entertain.

mrgan:

The general public public perception of NASA is that it’s an inefficient, unnecessary drain on the US budget. How bad a drain? Bad Astronomy quotes The Space Review:

In a just-completed study, we asked respondents what percentage of the national budget is allocated to NASA … NASA’s allocation, on average, was estimated to be approximately 24% of the national budget (the NASA allocation in 2007 was approximately 0.58% of the budget.)

I wonder how many government programs you’d have to ask about before you ran out of percents.

So true.