Articles by David Roberts

From Dreams to Desert

Girls. Crushing cars. We had a dream: Automobiles, being recycled. But first being crushed, slowly, by heavy machinery. All the while surrounded by skeezy dancing girls in bikinis. Well, we bring good news, brothers and sisters. The dream is real. The dream is real. Photo: Aachen Auto/Keith Bragg. Redressage in a bottle A lovelorn sailor […]

Pooln

Check out Pooln, a nifty web-2.0-y tool that uses a "community/social-network approach to carpooling." You plug in your home zip code and your work zip code and it tries to find you someone to carpool with -- it even has RSS feeds for zip codes, in case a new carpooler shows up. The future is now!

There's a decent interview with the proprietor of Pooln on eHub.

Deutsch determined to further embarrass self

Oh Jeebus. I haven't written much about the sad, hilarious, but mostly sad saga of George Deutsch, the late lamented NASA press aide who spent his days telling some of the world's premiere scientists to be sure to follow mentions of the Big Bang with the word "theory" and to stop being so icky-scary about the whole global warming thing, and then got called on it, and then resigned in shame, and then sunk further into shame when a blogger uncovered the fact that he didn't graduate from Texas A&M, contra his resume, and may not have graduated from college at all. Lots of other bloggers and newspapers have covered it in detail.

But this ... dude. George. A piece of friendly advice: STFU.

And the award for truthiness goes to …

Environmental Action and DeSmog Blog both got this already, but it's too hilarious to pass up:

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists presented their annual journalism award to ... wait for it ... Michael Crichton.

Yes, this Michael Crichton.

What's a satirist to do?