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Last night, folks on Twitter began to contemplate what will happen if Barack Obama wins the nomination. The meme seems to have begun with Andrew Crow's vision for the future: When Obama wins... unicorns will crap ice cream and pastries. I collected ...

Do we really need science to tell us that the DNA of an egg-laying, no nippled, duck-billed mammal is unusual? (link)

Just in time for my newly formed headlines tag: Great tits cope well with warming. (thx, ryan & alex) (link)

This is pretty incredible...John Resig has ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript. Wow. (via waxy) (link)

The stodgy old New Yorker has a Twitter account and its friends are NPR, Harper's, Gothamist, Huffington Post, the NY Times, and the WSJ, among others. Magazines should have friends, no? (Sniff, the WSJ has no friends.) (link)

43folders : A Whole Lotta Nothing – Stop asking, start filtering - I can't say this enough: I have **never** posted anything here based on a press release, and I never will. I wish the more loathsome PR people's clients could know what sociopathi ...

Andy Baio : Anil Dash's Paste to Win - random sampling of 150 people's clipboards, categorized

43folders : SJMA | Interactive Guide - via deli/ cmalexander

adamrg : Using Humor in the Classroom - Aimed at college professors -- who generally suck even more than high school teachers at basic human interaction -- but applicable in a variety of classrooms. Tags : classroom howto humor pedagogy sideblog teac ...

gleuschk : Brown Sharpie: characteristic pea - cute! Tags : comics math mathematics puns

I could really use a couple of these...

good talk slides

I like the use of RSS and Yahoo Pipes

"Yahoo has been accelerating its open activities of late..."

this reminds me of my diet plan...

The Sorting Algorithm Demo (495)

Easy Photo Wall on a Shoestringwire Budget » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: photos, home, decoration, wall (226)

Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide (221)

New in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies with lye: Don’t read this before lunch. Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest – dissolving bodies in lye and ...

Got a band but can't afford to shoot a video? Use public CCTV cameras and then demand the footage!: This is a great idea. I wonder how long it took them to get all this footage? Unable to hire a production crew for a standard 1980's era MTV ...

In this edition of "Dr. Syd's House Call," pediatrician Dr. Sydney Spiesel talks with Emily Bazelon about whether ADHD medications pose an added cardiac risk for children.

There are new developments in the case of the counterfeit Cisco routers, which we have been discussing or some time. The NYTimes updates the story after an FBI PowerPoint presentation made its way onto the Web. It seems that experts at Cisco have exa ...

Manfre writes "On his birthday, John Resig (creator of jQuery) has given a present to developers by releasing Processing.js. This is a Javascript port of the Processing Visualization Language and a first step towards Javascript being a rival to Flash ...

yo_cruyff notes a Computerworld article on Google's recent annual shareholder meeting, which was dominated by argument over the company's human rights policies. Google's shareholders, on advice from their board, have voted down two proposals on Thurs ...

Via_Patrino writes "While having to distribute load between several servers, round robin, or any other technique that balances load equally, is the most common approach because of its simplicity. But a recent study shows that trying to accumulate loa ...

Barence writes "A PC Pro reader has received a demand for a £600 out-of-court settlement from lawyers claiming to have forensic evidence that he illegally downloaded a PC game on BitTorrent. The law firm, Davenport Lyons, is acting on the behal ...

ozmanjusri writes "According to Information Week, within hours of its wide availability Windows XP SP3 had drawn hundreds of complaints from users who claim the update is wreaking havoc on their computers. One user said in a Microsoft newsgroup: 'I d ...

Myanmar's military leaders seized aid shipments headed for cyclone survivors and told the top U.S. diplomat there Friday that they're not ready to let in American aid workers despite warnings the country is on the verge of a medical catastrophe.

Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized control of key parts of Beirut from Sunnis loyal to the U.S.-backed government Friday, a dramatic show-of-force certain to strengthen the Iranian-allied group's hand as it fights for dominance in Lebanon's political dea ...

Russia showcased its military might and youthful new president to the world Friday, as heavy tanks and missile launchers rumbled across Red Square in a Victory Day parade for the first time since the Soviet era.

Texas officials may claim that Amazon.com owes millions in sales taxes on purchases that state residents made from the Internet retailer.

Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes.

It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman — she's pregnant with her 18th child.

Depression, teens and marijuana are a dangerous mix that can lead to dependency, mental illness or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report being released Friday.

Maybe Cleveland Cavaliers fans can hope for cheap gas if an oil company insults All-Star LeBron James.

Three teenagers were arrested after two of them told police they dug up a secluded grave north of Houston, removed the skull from the coffin and converted it into a marijuana bong.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's governing coalition said on Friday Hezbollah's takeover of west Beirut was an "armed coup" aimed at bringing Syria back into the country and serving Iran's interests.

Dry dock workers of the Curacao Dry Dock Company (CDM) discovered dangerous levels of blue asbestos while conducting routine repairs on the Freewinds, flagship of the Church of Scientology's Sea Org and home to the Flag Ship Service Organization (FS ...

The UN's World Food Programme says it will resume aid flights to Burma despite a row over impounded deliveries.

I’m delighted to say that online bookstores are shipping copies of Here Comes Everybody today, and that it has gotten several terrific notices in the blogosphere: Cory Doctorow:Clay’s book makes sense of the way that groups are using the ...

Being a nudist is nothing new. And from what we can tell, taking it off at the Sandstone Retreat was a lot more interesting than all these nakations we've been hearing about lately. VH1 takes a penetrating look at what it was like to get naked— ...

I sent a couple of people the following question: "What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?" Here are some of their answers (with formatting partly adjusted, omissions within quotes indicated with dots). Please add your own tips ...

Last week I asked Google and YouTube press support (and another Google employee) whether their Scientology channel was paid. The channel was listed in the "Sponsors" section of the site, for one thing, and Scientology has been seen spending many adve ...

Last night, folks on Twitter began to contemplate what will happen if Barack Obama wins the nomination. The meme seems to have begun with Andrew Crow's vision for the future: When Obama wins... unicorns will crap ice cream and pastries. I collected ...

Continuing the series of portrayals of technology from the VHS era, here's another contribution from Martin Brewer, who brought us the first episode of The Net. This is another BBC Two show, an episode of Horizon from 1993 on "The Electronic Frontie ...

Shake Girl, a collaborative project by students in the Stanford Graphic Novel Project. Based on the true story of Tat Marina [caution: disturbing photo], the victim of a December 1999 acid attack in Cambodia. More background.

An article by Caroline Baum and Victor Niederhoffer from 1995 examines Hillary Clinton's cattle futures investments. via.

In 1968 Dr. Spencer Silver invented the Post-it glue. It took somewhere around 40 years for an art form to evolve (see video). Also good for pranks. Some other fun facts: 1. Since their introduction, Post-its have always been recyclable. 2. Althou ...

Jonathan "King of Hits" King is a former pop impresario now best known for his conviction and imprisonment for having sex with teenage boys. He has turned his experiences into a satirical musical, Vile Pervert, and released the film for fre ...

Euro hits $1.596.While more than a little distressing for those of us who like to travel to Europe and consume some of their elitist export products, it's probably otherwise a good thing for the US economy as it'll prop up our exports. Hopefully.

It's depressing that this Congress really is incapable of doing the right thing. The Senate proclaimed a fierce bipartisan resolve two weeks ago to help American homeowners in danger of foreclosure. But while a bill that senators approved last week w ...

Something Awful eschews humor in this week's Comedy Goldmine for gibbering madness. "I know you were coming here expecting to laugh at the Comedy Goldmine this week. Well, you're screwed....

"It's the Bizaro Ethel Merman." "She's like a garbage bag full of fighting Muppets back from the dentist." "It's like the little exorcist girl stung by bees." "The first time...

A short film in which a Paris Hilton-esque socialite is revealed to be the architect of her own loopy attempts at notoriety, and who will go as far as she...

— — We're working to build a scalable, beautiful new TwitterGram, an application built on the super-powerful SwitchAbit platform. — —

I just posted a Tweet: "After seeing comments blossom in FriendFeed, it seems either Twitter should have comments, or extend the API so someone else can add them." — — Why? — — 1. People still reply to tweets, expecting a res ...

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It was seven years ago today when everybody was getting excited about Microsoft's bombastic announcement of Hailstorm, promising that "Hailstorm makes the technology in your life work together on your behalf and under your control." What was it, rea ...

The next podcast is up. Today we talked about why we're doing a podcast in the first place, took some questions/ suggestions from listeners, and got into a fight over whether programmers should learn C. Guess which side I took. There are some improv ...

high quality videos in three torrents from the music video community  

I loved Bioshock's story but not the gameplay, so this should be a fun ride  

random sampling of 150 people's clipboards, categorized  

one of the most amazing hacks I've ever seen; don't miss the demos further down the page  

time-bending Flash game, reminiscent of P.B. Winterbottom  

a multi-instrumentalist's reality meets fiction  

named after Piet Mondrian, here's how it works; also, a Javascript IDE  

Kyle Downes of the aptly named "Ultra Awesome" blog built this genius coffee table that's an enormous, working NES controller! It opens to reveal storage space for tons of game-carts . Link (via Wonderland)...

The kid-centric online game Club Penguin (acquired by Disney last year) adds 500-1000 words a day to its list of forbidden chat-words in an effort to keep things clean. Wanna bet that kids come up with 2000-4000 new variant spellings a day? Merrifiel ...

Ethan Persoff of Comics With Problems says, This fantastic new item comes to us from Saigon, 1966. A truly one-of-a-kind sort of surviving Batman and Boy Wonder knockoff bootleg. For you psychologists in the crowd, Robin becomes invisible and there's ...

In January, my company Digital Garage invested in Twitter and announced plans to work together with Twitter to create a Japanese version of the service. That service just went live. It's still part of the main Twitter service, but the UI will be in ...

Footnote has posted the 1860 Census with its usual array of tools and goodies, some of which require a free membership. But the basic browsing and viewing is open to all. Footnote does a nice job with this stuff, including annotation tools and other ...

Codemasters scores another one for its racing lineup - the Colin McRae: DiRT and Race Driver: Grid creators acquired the exclusive rights to develop Formula 1 racing games for console, handheld and PC. The deal will let Codies feature all Grand Prix ...

newVideoPlayer("farcry2509_kotaku.flv", 480, 290,""); Far Cry 2 looks like the sort of game I could get completely lost in. Looking at the scenic environments in this video, a preview clip from Ubisoft's upcoming Ubidays press event, I get the urge ...

Red, yellow and blue cars are on their way in a hurry to the Brooklyn side of the bridge.

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Eyebeam Winter 2008 Resident Joe Winter makes sculptures that re-purpose familiar technological systems and undermine their functional sense. Past works have targeted sound-related technologies and objects, and have included: a cassette tape that dra ...

At This happened in March, Jack from Schulze & Webb gave a presentation on the development of Olinda, a prototype commissioned by BBC Audio & Music Interactive R&D. Olinda has now arrived and it looks fantastic… “Olinda i ...

No matter how beautiful the sex animations are in your favorite virtual playground, they can't compete with the movement of your own body. How soon will we be slipping gracefully into motion-capture suits or using 3-D cameras to capture those uni ...