07/11/07

Dear internet, I'd like you to meet Ollie Kottke. Some vital statistics: He was born on July 3 just before 1pm, weighed about 7 lbs., 2 oz., loves to eat (and then sleep), is O.K. (ha!), dislikes sponge baths, unfortunately doesn't have any descen ...

CEOs must be designers, not just hire them. "Design is no longer just about form anymore but is a method of thinking that can let you to see around corners. And the high tech breakthroughs that do count today are not about speed and performance but a ...

A list of film techniques that Alfred Hitchcock used in making his movies. (link)

McSweeney's is opening a small design shop called Timothy McSweeney's Design House to "tackle smaller jobs where the personal touch is welcome". If I wanted a job, this is one of the places I'd apply. (via quipsologies) (link)

The World Without Us looks like an interesting read: "If a virulent virus -- or even the Rapture -- depopulated Earth overnight, how long before all trace of humankind vanished? [...] Days after our disappearance, pumps keeping Manhattan's subways dr ...

Khoi Vinh : Optimizing iPhone Battery Life - Practices for iPhone battery care and usage between charges and before a replacement is necessary. Tags : Three Star

43folders : Guy plays WoW on iPhone, universe explodes - Joystiq - Hey, look. It's that game I don't play on that phone I don't have. Telekinesis, though? Damn, man: that does tempt a person. Tags : apple gaming iphone telekinesis

joshua : Bringing the Browser to the Server - resig brings DOM to rhino. looks like server-side js is happening in a hurry Tags : dev js web

factoryjoe : Developing Content for iPhone's Mobile Safari – Archive – RD2 Blog - Like Apple's developer guidelines state, the iPhone doesn't support any of the misguided mobile-only technologies that have sprung up over ...

factoryjoe : qooxdoo » WebKit CSS Styles - Most browser support custom CSS tags, which are not (yet) part of any standard. These styles are usually prefixed with the browser name. Mozilla uses -moz-, Opera -o- and Safari/ WebKit us ...

everyone is scrambling to catch up with facebook...

"Nice catalyst to drive Yahoo's stock this year."

yikes!

"One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century." Yikes. That's sad.

a Time story about 37Signals

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)

mysoftwaresucks.com: Something about a particular piece of software piss you off? Now there’s a nice place to rant about it. Have you ever yelled at your computer? Maybe you’ve smacked it once or twice in frustration? […] >We ...

New rules could rock wireless world: I could obviously not work for any wireless company since this just makes sense to me on its face. Coming soon could be a wireless broadband world in which consumers get to pick any smartphone or other device ...

GAZA CITY–Walking around the surprisingly grim prison once run by Fatah's Preventive Security Force with its new custodians–a handful of young Hamas gunmen–I failed to notice "Ahmed" at first. His tracksuit and sandals didn't stand out among th ...

The awesome Chris Brogan just tagged me asking me to do a list of 8 Random Things. I always wanted to be a TV star! After playing Tony D. for a while I find myself saying “AWESOME” and “Sweet” a lot more. I was on Slime Time ...

kpw10 writes to let us know about research to be published this week that offers hope in the battle against multi-drug-resistant bacteria. "Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that two drugs used to treat bo ...

privacyprof writes "One of the most common responses of those unconcerned about government surveillance or privacy invasions is 'I've got nothing to hide.' According to the 'nothing to hide' argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the governme ...

An anonymous reader writes "I am a big fan of Oodle, the online classifieds aggregator. I was disheartened when Craigslist announced that they would block Oodle from their site in late 2005 (old link), as I find their service very handy. I came acros ...

Mike writes "New users of the GIMP often become frustrated at the application's unwieldy user interface. Now Prof. Michael Terry and a group of researchers at the University of Waterloo have created ingimp, a modified version of the GIMP that collect ...

kripkenstein writes "Canonical, the corporation behind Ubuntu, has begun to open-source Launchpad. Canonical has been criticized for not doing so earlier. The first component of Launchpad to be open-sourced is Storm, described as an 'object-relationa ...

[TheBORG] writes with news that FCC chairman Kevin Martin wants 700-MHz wireless devices and services to be unlocked. Spectrum auctions for the 700-MHz airwaves, being opened up for fixed and mobile broadband, are scheduled for early next year. "The ...

The Bush administration ruled out any quick shift in military strategy in Iraq on Tuesday, despite growing bipartisan calls in the Senate for a troop withdrawal and sharp criticism of the Iraqi government.

A small plane carrying the husband of a NASCAR executive crashed into a neighborhood Tuesday and engulfed two houses in flames, killing both people aboard the aircraft and three others on the ground.

Extremists unleashed a barrage of more than a dozen mortars or rockets into the Green Zone on Tuesday, killing at least three people — including an American — and wounding 18 in an area once considered the safest in the Iraqi capital.

The sun always seems to shine in Sun Valley, a pristine mountain resort in Idaho, when the top brass from media and technology companies convene every July for a deep-think retreat hosted by the investment banker Herbert Allen.

A Canadian man who helped create a company to process Internet gambling transactions pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge Tuesday, about two weeks after another founder of Neteller PLC entered a guilty plea of his own.

HealthDay - SUNDAY, July 8 (HealthDay News) -- Compelling evidence from four studies confirms that a key change in DNA previously linked to prostate cancer also raises colon cancer risk, scientists report.

AFP - Poachers have killed seven elephants near Kenya's Tsavo National Park over the past month, wildlife officials said Tuesday.

Scottish bride Teresa Brown's dream of a perfect wedding day probably did not include attacking the groom with her stiletto shoe and spending the weekend in a cell.

A bird that caught fire after being electrocuted at a substation is suspected of igniting a 2 acre wildfire Monday, officials said. Fire personnel weren't able to identify whether the bird was raven or a crow that flew into exposed elements hanging f ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Embattled U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced a new firestorm on Tuesday sparked by a report he may have misled lawmakers in 2005 about civil liberty violations by the FBI.

A few years ago, in my early twenties, I was set to graduate from university. At the time, I lived with my parents and had an easy job as the network administrator of a local fishing company. A few months before convocation, my parents divorced, my b ...

A Pakistani cleric and 50 militants are killed after troops storm a rebellious mosque in Islamabad, officials say.

I said that in Andrew Keen: Rescuing ‘Luddite’ from the Luddites, to which Tom S., one of the commenters, replied There are assertions of verifiable fact and then there are invocations of shared values. Don’t mix them up. I meant ...

newVideoPlayer("parasex_gawker.flv", 475, 376); The Museum of Sex in Manhattan is currently hosting a stunning exhibition of photographs featuring various amateurs in sensual and occasionally erotic poses. The only thing that separates these pics fro ...

Reto Meier of the Radioactive Yak blog recently turned his cell phone into a "Google Phone," and he'll explain how you can do the same through the different mobile-optimized sites and Java clients Google offers. Google Mobile Homepage ...

Google announced they're acquiring Postini, a company focussing on secure enterprise communication, for $625 million. Postini is supposed to make Google Apps -- which brings the Google office, like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Talk, to companie ...

Dear internet, I'd like you to meet Ollie Kottke. Some vital statistics: He was born on July 3 just before 1pm, weighed about 7 lbs., 2 oz., loves to eat (and then sleep), is O.K. (ha!), dislikes sponge baths, unfortunately doesn't have any descen ...

I started this blog five years ago today with a basic idea: keep it original and keep it relevant. Unfortunately, I left out "keep it updated." As you can probably tell, Waxy is taking the back seat these days to other priorities, namely work and f ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette died today in car accident in Mississippi.

The votes are in. Vermont wins the Springfield Challenge. link works in IE, not in Firefox for me. Now all we have to do is find a big enough theater.

The American Biographical Institute and the International Biographical Centre have been offering honours for sale for years now. Recipients are offered the chance to purchase space in published "Who's Who" type directories and they can als ...

The N-word: 1786 - 2007.

I dunno. One upside of the "wear your faith on your sleeve," movement, combined with Mormon Mitt, is that maybe we can get this fight out into the open. Then maybe lessons will be learned.Let's turn one of the Republican presidential debates into a ...

It's hot, but if you're local there's no better way to cool off than having a nice cold Hoegaarden at Drinking Liberally's Philadelphia chapter. Tangier, 18th & Lombard, tonight, 6-whenever people leave. Free wings!...and Reid finally was on CNN.

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...

not trying to be cute but i got coffee on my keybord, now lot o key don't work. ouch. trying to fix it probly don't work too well.

Rex Hammock on serious applications of TwitterGrams. Doc Searls: "Where are you going to go for live information when a life-threatening wildfire bears down on your town?"

.... Live Earth organizer Al Gore claims the July 7th event was carbon neutral, because the organization bought carbon credits to offset the greenhouse gases it produced. Staff drove hyper-efficient Smart Cars and bio-diesel ....

....The next two weeks could prove pivotal in the Iraq debate, a fact which is not lost on the White House, if we are to believe David Sanger's NTY's article.....

I'm happy to announce that FogBugz On Demand is now available. This is a professionally-hosted version of FogBugz 5.0, previously only available as a download. Selling web software has always been a slightly strange aspect of the way Fog Creek ope ...

There's a scene in the movie 1408 that features a stack of Joel on Software (the book) along with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson. Not loving your job? Visit the Joel on Software Job Board: Great software jobs, great people.

they interviewed Rupert Murdoch, Art Spiegelman, Barry Diller, Brad Bird, Ricky Gervais, and others  

see also: terror groups gone corporate  

you've got baby!  

remote desktop, streaming video, and application server, all running in iPhone's Safari  

play two videos at once; more entertaining than you'd think  

they've figured out a way to start arbitrary services and move files around  

Jason Scott on the history of user-aggressive software, from BBS crippleware to P2P adware  

David Pescovitz: The artisans at Pressure Printing have released a beautiful limited edition print by Seattle artist Robert Hardgrove. (Full image at left, detail at right.) Pressure Printing's relief printing process enhances Hardgrove's swi ...

Cory Doctorow: Rockford, IL woman Dawn Larson, who was born without arms, was refused service at a McDonald's drive through, because the staff refused to let her take her food away with her feet (she uses her feet to drive, handle money, etc). The st ...

David Pescovitz: Max Hell, 5, was denied admission to a Catholic school due to his last name, his parents claim. According to Max's father, the Melbourne, Australia school were first willing to enroll the boy, then withdrew the admission offer, and t ...

Jet lag woke me up again at 3AM so I watched the Adobe Lightroom stuff on Lynda. I learned how to control more things in post-processing so I went out into the foggy and hazy sunrise to take some photos in the yard to play with in Lightroom. I still ...

This is a rich exchange between Chris Lydon and Steve Antinoff. This is a powerful piece by Britt on the ordinary and the extraordinary, Here, again, is the video of Clay Shirky's extraordinary talk on the Web of love. The blogosphere is a blessing.. ...

German gaming site Gaming Universe has first in-game shots of the highly anticipated Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario crossover game from Sega and Nintendo Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games and they look... about on par with what you'd expect from a thr ...

The product announcements just keep flowing like delicious wine, the kind that calm our shakes, as D3Publisher of America announces its license-rich line up of software on hand at E3 2007. While fare like Naruto and Ben 10, both Cartoon Network prope ...

At a subway station in Brooklyn.

(NSFW)

The personal powerPlant is a portable device that harnesses electricity through a solar cell and hand crank generator, into a NiMH battery. The device also includes a visual multimeter that monitors the amount of energy stored. The personal powerPlan ...

coming soon to a changing neighborhood Looking at this stage more like the Pompidou than the casual stack of clean, minimal, white spaces which will eventually sit on the side of one of the oldest and most historically-evocative streets in New Yor ...

The Journal of Visualized Experiments displays videos of experimental procedures and techniques.